Aug 02 2007
Can Cats Forsee Death?
In the news this week is Oscar a cat who it appears can tell when someone is going to die. Oscar lives at a hospice and it seems that when someone is dying he will be found sitting by them. They say he just about always get this right and has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died. Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence has written this up in the New England Journal of Medicine.
What can we make of this? Is OscarPsychic ? Well I doubt it. It could be, as others have suggested, that the smell that a person emits during the dying process is attractive to cats or to Oscar in particuar. Maybe he was treated kindly in the past by a dying person and has grown to associate the smell with comfort.
They say this cat isn’t friendly and will snap if people approach him. Maybe he has had to protect himself, since he has always lived in a dementia unit. So another possibility is that a dying person will leave him alone.
What do you think?
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Tags: Cat Behavior, cat predicts death
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