Death-Sensing Cat.
<div class="IPBDescription">Really creepy.</div><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/07/25/death.cat.ap/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/07/25/death.cat.ap/index.html</a>
One of the more interesting stories I got from another forum. Patients must be pretty scared if the cat approaches.
One of the more interesting stories I got from another forum. Patients must be pretty scared if the cat approaches.
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what was the point of that?
haha? ... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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Anyway that cat will meet my dog if he ever tries that with me! Or a mallet, which ever comes first o.o
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That was fast.
I remember hearing about a dog(s) that was trained to smell cancerous cells, this is probably related to that kind of thing.
<homer> mmmmm... soul... </homer>
My question tho, does the cat not just curl up with people anyway as most cats do?
It is a well known fact that Catfords can sense death. It is less known the reason they can sense death is they carry ban hammers.
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No, it's nanites
The cat meows in and puts the mark of death on the patient, sentencing the person to damnation.
For example, they report 25 cases of "accuracy", but give no figure for the number of times he curls up next to someone and they don't die. They do admit that he does sleep next to non-doomed patients; the doctor admits as much when he says: "He doesn't make too many mistakes." The way he's worded that also sounds like he's not too sure of himself and would rather not think about the mistakes.
Also the anthropomorphism. They keep referring to the cat as if they were talking about a being with human intentions and understanding; phrases like "Oscar seems to take his work seriously," and "Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses." Making rounds or doing work are simply not issues that apply to cats. By talking about him in this way it makes it easier to believe he comprehends and responds to things like imminent human death.
I'm more inclined to side with the vet at the end of the article. Given that they've said that these people are so ill that they're not likely to know he's there, and that he isn't too friendly to people, he's probably just taking the opportunity to curl up on a comfortable blanket next to a warm body that's likely to leave him alone. He doesn't know if they're dying, just that they're something warm that isn't paying him any attention.
Making rounds or doing work are simply not issues that apply to cats.
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That's not true. It's not work, but for the cat to go around and snuggle up with patients is believable. Pets do have habits.
That's not true. It's not work, but for the cat to go around and snuggle up with patients is believable. Pets do have habits.
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Yes, of course it's a habit but to call it "work" or "rounds" is misleading because they are incomprehensible concepts to a cat. He's developed a habit of going round and sleeping next to patients, but probably only because he likes doing it, which is very different from a doctor's attitude to their work.