There was an earlier topic about this, but I don't care. :')
Posted on 02/08/2010 2:43:54 PM PST by AJKauf
In 2007, my “Pets” column for the New York Post celebrated a cat named Oscar, subject of an eye-opening article in the New England Journal of Medicine. While I firmly believe that no cat is ordinary, Oscar is less ordinary than most, and his legend is spreading around the globe. This now five-year-old tortoiseshell tabby with white markings resides in a Rhode Island nursing home, and can sense when patients are about to die. Oscar the cat stays by their side, keeping them company until they pass.
Oscar spends all day pacing from room to room of the facility. Not exactly what you’d call a cuddlepuss, he’s more the aloof type, and rarely spends time with patients other than those who only have hours to live. But keep him outside the room of a dying patient, and Oscar will scratch at the door until he’s let in.
Now, Oscar is the deserving subject of a best-selling new book, Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat. The author, Dr. David Dosa, an MD and Brown University prof who admits to having previously suffered from a “strong aversion to cats,” has evidently been cured after years of witnessing his four-footed colleague in action.
Nurses once placed Oscar on the bed of a patient they thought was close, but Oscar “charged out,” Dosa recalls, and went to sit beside a patient in a different room instead. The patient Oscar chose to sit with died that evening; the other patient lived for two more days.
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I don’t know why anyone residing at the home wants to keep the Cat of Death there. Scat! Scat!! Scat!!!
Oscar just visited John Murtha. You go Cat!
LOL! I love cats. I live with FIVE cats. But I would not want that furry little reaper anywhere near anyone I loved.
Believe it or not my grandmother in-law lives with this cat!
There was an earlier topic about this, but I don't care. :')
Good way to make sure she gets her exercise. Every time she sees the little bugger, she probably runs like hell!!!
Not long after I first read of this cat, I thought I read another article where the cat was found dead in a waste basket............I figured it had been killed by someone who didn't want the reaper around.
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