Comments on: Cat's "Sixth Sense" Predicting Death?

Nursing Home Cat Named Oscar Seems to Know When Death Is Near

[GregCox]

This is an excellent example of where you wouldn't want your name at the tail end of..."And the Oscar goes to..."

[mnelsonix]

you may think it's funny but it'snot!

[phil-in-fin]

All the wack-jobs are out on this one ...

Perhaos Bush could hire him to direct his wars "Oscar, should I send the troops to North Korea, Iran, or Pakistan?" "Look boss! He's curled up and started purring on a map of Iraq!"

Had it been a frog, G. W. Bush would have been in trouble:

We were terrible to animals,' recalled [Bush pal Terry] Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush borne turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. `Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Throckmorton said. `Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'

Kristof made plain that "we" explicitly included George W. Bush, and that George W., the Safari Club International "Governor of the Year" in 1999 for his support of trophy hunting, was the leader among the boys who did it.

[mnelsonix]

donnie900,

By your posts, I'm sure your immune system is functioning at it's highest possible level. lol

[swwils]

I think that is a miracle cat.Going to the bed of the one that is dying is strange.Some of those people are wanting to hurry and go,I know from family experience.It is not good to suffer or watch others around you suffer.This is really an amazing story how animals see and know things that we can't even predict or understand.

[mennowoman]

How sweet that the actions of this cat are being interpretted as compassionate and intuitive! I doubt the cat knows or cares that strange humans are dying and tries to comfort them. There must be some other motivation for the cat. Maybe the dying emit a scent the cat finds appealling? Whatever it is, the cat is not being altruistic, it is getting something out of being around dying people.

[delfmast]

Do others remember the "old wives tale" that cats must not be allowed to stand above children, peering into their faces, particularly babies, as they could or would take the babies breath away. I remember it from my grandparents home, where I was left while my parents were deployed during the war. Perhaps most cats are able to predict death, like Oscar, and thus were innocently, found often, in death situations, and thus the "old wives tale" may have had roots in facts. delfmast

[marizahofer]

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[donnie900]

Something else about old folks homes: Put a little bit of water in their ashtrays.

[donnie900]

One of the biggest bad health concerns is that people got this notion of making food the same worldwide. A very debilitating effect, physiologically. Whenever you stay someplace far away from home, one should "eat local". It adjusts your body's sensibilities to where you're at. Eating foreign all the time, on the other hand, has an incredibly debilitating effect on the body.

[luigi999-2009]

I know my cat can sense when I'm ill and tries to be a comfort. Amazing animals!

[mahdeealoo]

Animals indeed predict many things, based upon their keen ability to "sense". That includes, earthquakes, violent storms, tsunami, health problems and death, not to mention sensing when people are less than upright by avoiding them or hissing/barking at them.
It has even been studied how dogs sense when their owners are heading back from trips by waiting at the door as seen by video camera. This includes travel from one continent to another that can take several days. They just "know" when the owners are headed back and wait...

[donnie900]

"And to think, the greatest feat my cat ever accomplished was urinating on the laundry!"

Urine attracts people of the opposite ***. Its also what the early settlers used as toothpaste. The ammonia whitens teeth.

[brianp55]

So if Oscar walks into your room, you know you are in trouble.

[olebd]

I wish we could teach them to cook or clean the house.

[rach216-2009]

It's amazing that this cat has taken on this important "job" and he knows just what to do. Animals are incredible.

[olebd]

And to think, the greatest feat my cat ever accomplished was urinating on the laundry!

[donnie900]

The cutest critters in all the world will give us our bad news. They'll tell us that death has finally reached our politics.. That the world wants to say goodbye.

[shoujoboy-2009]

If I was a patient in this hospital I would demand my door stayed closed at all times. Just in case this cat knew something I didn't. But if he somehow pops up through the ventillation system and curls up next to then I know for sure I'm on my way out the door.

[donnie900]

This numbing effect isn't just in the things we see, and hear. But in the way we think as well. The way we'll not feel "alive" unless we have our breast implants, or a botox treatments. The way we'll need evidence to prove that a pre-empted war is warranted, for example. Our minds.. the way we think.. become demented with greater forms of communication. Numbing our sensibilities..