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Oscar the Death Cat

Jul 26, 2007 14:50

Nursing home cat predicts patients' deaths with uncanny accuracy. I wonder if Oscar can see something we can't...

Here's the article written about Oscar for the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Comments 3

completely amazing... m_ichka July 26 2007, 23:02:20 UTC

...but it strikes me as being something that wouldn't be hard for a cat raised in a place like that. I agree with the guy that said that Oscar is probably able to read bio-chemical signals that we can't. What a cool thing to have a cat that helps out this way! They should try raising another kitten and see if that one "learns" the skill from Oscar... there could be a whole line of cats who do this :-)

Re: completely amazing... computersherpa July 26 2007, 23:10:24 UTC

I agree! If Oscar can train more cats to do this, and they can distribute those cats to more hospitals without them losing their predictive talents...that would be amazing. We could have a psychic cat in every hospital! They could be a Guild of Cats. With special golden collars.

and now, from ICanHasCheezburger... computersherpa July 27 2007, 21:14:52 UTC

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