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Subject: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/07 at 9:30 am
A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home's residents are about to die is baffling doctors.
Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.
According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.
Staff now alert the families of residents when he sits down next to their ailing loved one.
"He doesn't make many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," David Dosa, a professor at Brown University who carried out the research, told the Associated Press news agency.
Read more here.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Southern Image on 07/26/07 at 10:08 am
That cat better not come around me. ;D
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Tia on 07/26/07 at 10:11 am
i read somewhere you can train dogs to diagnose cancer. they smell it before it shows up on any tests. you can also train them to detect kidney and liver problems in urine.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/26/07 at 10:15 am
This article was in our morning paper. As much as I love cats, I'm not too sure that I would want that cat to curl up next to me. :-\\
Cat
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: lorac61469 on 07/26/07 at 10:56 am
Luckily the cats is in an Alzheimer /Dementia unit, so the patients are not aware that this little guy is around.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: ladybug316 on 07/26/07 at 11:28 am
Luckily the cats is in an Alzheimer /Dementia unit, so the patients are not aware that this little guy is around.
You're not kidding!!
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Marian on 08/05/07 at 3:42 pm
I saw that.Kind of cute.We need to remember animals aren't subject to the same taboos as humans.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: whistledog on 08/05/07 at 6:09 pm
Dr. Catvorkian
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: LyricBoy on 08/05/07 at 6:20 pm
Here's a great gag. Spinkle a little catnip on the clothes of one of the staff at that home. They'll be cr@pping bricks.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Gis on 08/06/07 at 1:22 am
I'm not surprised at all by this. Animals are very good at sensing illness, it's a built in mechanism to stop them catching whatever the other animal has. What is unusual is the cat lying next to them usually they will back away.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Apricot on 08/06/07 at 6:03 am
My friend told me about this the other day.. I heard this cat was so accurate that as soon as it curled up next to someone, the home staff would call the person's relatives and inform them that they were about to die.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Gis on 08/06/07 at 6:57 am
Slightly less scarey than the grim reaper sidling up sharpening his scythe I guess. ;D
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/07 at 3:27 pm
About five of the patients died from heart attacks when the cat walked in the room.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Howard on 08/06/07 at 3:41 pm
About five of the patients died from heart attacks when the cat walked in the room.
Wow,That's an amazing cat. :o
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Step-chan on 08/06/07 at 5:01 pm
I remember seeing that on the news.
Subject: Re: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
Written By: Foo Bar on 08/06/07 at 8:15 pm
Slightly less scarey than the grim reaper sidling up sharpening his scythe I guess. ;D
( Insert Obligatory Cat Picure Here )
"I'm in ur nursin home killin ur d00dz!"