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A cat has amazed medics - by predicting when nursing home patients are about to die.

Oscar curls up next to elderly residents in the last few hours of their lives, reports The Sun.

Rest of article at www.ananova.com

Date: 2007-07-26 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athanasius.livejournal.com
Heh, when I saw this (at www.theregister.com first, and later on news.bbc.co.uk too) my first thought was "What? Maybe the cat is KILLING them!".

And I'm a cat lover.

Date: 2007-07-26 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattp.livejournal.com
I had a similar thought. TBH that's more likely than the prescient ability to forsee death.

The other explanation is that the cats has loads of false positives and sits with everyone for a while, each in turn.

It was an article in The Sun, after all :-)

Date: 2007-07-26 01:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athanasius.livejournal.com
Aye, a thought about false positives going unreported had crossed my mind as well. The BBC article does have a bit about the cat being terribly upset if it gets kicked out of the room before the person in question has gone though, so it does seem rather insistent that it be near THAT particular person at the time.

Date: 2007-07-26 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattp.livejournal.com
I'm now having thoughts of the film Ringu. Don't let the cat sit on you or you'll die within four hours!

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