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Cats predict 50 deaths!
Records have shown that one cat predicted 50 human deaths.
Oscar has been adopted.
He was adopted as a kitten at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, which specializes in caring for people with severe dementia.
Oscar and his psychic abilities.
Dr. David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, said that Oscar sometimes proves that medical staff is wrong in their predictions about near-death patients.
Dr. Dosa first published Oscar's gift in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007.
However, since that time, he "predicted" twice the number of impending deaths.
Because of the way the cat treated the dying patient, it convinced the geriatrician that it was not a coincidence.
How does Oscar deal with dying patients?
Oscar is a tortoise and a White cat;
If Oscar is outside the room with a dying patient, he scratches the door to try to get in.
The cat is not alone because the nursing home has five other cats, although neither of these has ever behaved in this strange way, or in any other predictable way!
"When the nurses put the cat on the bed of a patient they thought was near death, Oscar" charged "and went to sit next to someone in another room.
Dr. Dosa and other staff believe in Oscar's accuracy that they will warn family members when the cat jumps onto the bed and stretches out beside the occupant.
Round with Oscar.
Dr. Dosa's book, "Getting to know the Oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat," does not give any definitive scientific explanation of Oscar's behavior - mainly.
He hypothesized that Oscar could - like dogs, could smell cancer - detect ketones, the characteristic smelly biological chemical produced by dead cells.
I wouldn't want this cat to come near me!
