Sunday, November 23, 2014

Oscar, the Nursing Home Cat Who Can Sense Death Coming

Hi there! Glad you could find a few minute to stop by. Coffee's on and there's a fresh array of delectable virtual treats for you to nibble on. Hey...are you a cat person? Well here's one cat you don't want to curl up next to you any time soon!

Meet Oscar, a cat with a supernatural ability to feel when people are about to die. In over 50 documented cases, Oscar, who lives in a nursing home , has curled up beside patients in their final hours, seeing them through to the ‘other side’.

His unique story was revealed by Dr. David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, who claims Oscar’s predictions have rarely been wrong in the past six years. In fact, he has even proved medical staff wrong at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island, where he was adopted seven years ago as a kitten.

Dr. Dosa first told the world about Oscar’s rare gift in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007. Since then, the cat has accurately sensed even more deaths, convincing the geriatrician that it wasn’t just a series of coincidences. 

Dr. Dosa eventually wrote a book about his experiences with Oscar at the nursing home. It’s called ‘Making rounds with Oscar: The extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat’.

Might be a tad unnerving, I would think. The folks in the nursing home probably look anxiously out of their doorways before heading out to the dining room or other elsewhere in case Oscar is wandering the corridors.  Don't want him hanging about. No sirree!

See ya, eh!

Bob


Source: http://www.odditycentral.com/

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