Cat of the day?
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In 2005, a six-month-old kitten named Oscar was adopted by a nursing home in the US to be raised as a therapy cat. However, the workers noticed something peculiar about him.
While Oscar usually preferred to be alone, he occasionally crawled into a resident's bed and snuggled beside them.
The eerie thing about this is that the resident that Oscar would cuddle with would usually die within hours.
Initially, the staff didn't think much of it, but after this happened 20 times, they started to believe that Oscar knew when someone was close to passing away, and so when they noticed the cat next to a resident, they would call their loved ones to warn them.
Researchers speculate that Oscar could smell biochemicals released by dying cells and so chose to comfort lonely residents.
On one occasion, the staff was convinced that a resident was about to pass away, but Oscar refused to sit with them. Instead, he chose another resident who looked healthier, and that person passed away first.
Oscar died in 2022, and over the course of his life he accurately predicted over 100 deaths.
- aweYakuZoku
- "predicted", sure...rzu-rzu
- ..."premeditated" more like, and got away with all of themrzu-rzu
- immunocompromised elderly with a cat allergy will do thatimbecile
- Meowstradamusideaist
- "Snakes with fur. You can't even put them beside a baby, they suck the breath right out."garbage
- I call bullshitwagshaft
- heard Dogs can sense cancer or sickness seemingly so there could be some element of truth in this.microkorg
- ^ Seizure alert dogs are a thing. We're just not really sure how they do it yet.garbage
- https://www.akc.org/…garbage
- Support animals are the wild west of therapy. I knew a girl that had a blind sister. I thought she was joking when she complained about..garbage
- ..changing her blind sister's pony's diapers. But her sister did actually have an indoor mini-horse that led her around the house, supported her when she fell.garbage
- and they wear shoes indoors. It looks something like this:garbage
- https://images.sayme…garbage
- Why wouldn't you believe this? Dogs can smell some diseases and animals' senses are very different than our own, which are governed by learned 'logic'.formed
- I think Oscar can smell morphinetoemaas
- @ideaist fuck those peeps who passed on Meowstradamus, that shit is gold!plash