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Not sure how many of you heard about Oscar the cat, I heard about this from another Ex-pat in Hong Kong and then I saw it on a news video-cast Erica and I were watching.  Apparently, this cat lives at a nursing home in Rhode Island and he seems to know when a resident is gonna kick the bucket.  Here, I’ll let you read it for yourself;

“This cat really seems to know when patients are about to die,” says Dr David Dosa, a geriatrician at Rhode Island hospital who also attends patients at Steere House.“We started to see something was happening about 18 months ago and at first I think we were all very sceptical. But it’s not an unusual occurrence for patients to die here, so we’ve had plenty of opportunities to witness and observe the phenomenon.     

“The first signals come as early as two days beforehand, when Oscar leaves his usual favourite solitary spots under a doctor’s desk or sunbathing in the windows of an empty office and begins doing his rounds, padding round the corridors of the unit, visiting patients but never lingering.

“When somebody’s not ready to die, he leaves,” says Dr Dosa. “He doesn’t settle in their room until the day they die. Sometimes it can be as much as four hours beforehand, but he’s universally there, curled up on their bed, two hours before they take their last breath.”

  All I’ve got to say it, next time a cat snuggles up to me - I’m gonna get a little nervous!