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Offline delalluvia

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The Death Reaper Cat
« on: February 03, 2010, 01:42:37 am »
I don't know, it still sounds creepy.  I hope the patients aren't aware.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/od_nm/us_books_cat

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Re: The Death Reaper Cat
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 08:19:20 am »
I think it's pretty neat.  If the kitty is always right, it might give the staff more time to get the family there to say their goodbyes.  I do believe pets have more cognitive abilities - likely just a different range of senses - than we give them credit for.

I am sure I have posted this before, but once I came home years ago - before Mom needed round-the-clock care - to Oberon and Titania milling around in the kitchen.  It was around 10 pm, and they would normally have been in bed with Mom.  They followed me when I went to check on her, and sure enough, she'd fallen in the bathroom.  (She was OK, thankfully, just at an awkward angle where she couldn't get up.)

I was proud of my kitties for going for help in the only way they knew how.

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