US cat 'predicts patient deaths' (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

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.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6917113.stm

I don't know whether to feel creeped out or vaguely comforted.

On the other hand, maybe they had 25 patients allergic to cats.

[billyskank]

1. The Cat of Death.

[DS1]

2. They left out the slight fact that it sleeps on their faces

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