Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
Oscar has lived almost all of his two years in the third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island. Most of the people he visits are unconscious, so his visits don’t frighten them. Experts don’t know what clues Oscar senses, but an animal behaviorist says the only way to really track his record of predictions is to carefully document how Oscar behaves with everyone. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501753.html -via Arbroath
k thx
Lets get the cat memes out of our systems:
Im in ur lap, reapin' ur solz.
I r serious reaper, this r serious work.
I can has soul now?
brb, going to afterlife. Dropin off, kthxbai!
Invisible psychopomp!
I see that what you died, thar.
I'VE COME FOR YOUR SOULSSSSS!
Wow, that has to be the best comment ever. Hehehehe...Murder She Wrote. Now it should be called Murder She Meowed.
No kidding...
and I agree send Oscar to the White House
And no, Lala, they weren't allergic to cats. He's predicted all 25 of the deaths of patients that have died since he's been there, and there is no way they were all allergic to cats.
I think I'd be more likely to believe this cat's ability if he hung out in an elementary school and whichever kid he sat next to keeled over.
These people are in a nursing home. They're already unconscious. Chances are their life expectancy isn't long anyway.
http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/asithappens/20070726-aih-1.wmv
More details, including discussion on how many times the cat had successfully predicted death, including fooling the Dr.
-S.
Terry Prachet is even funnier now!!