the furry reaper
Strange goings on at a Rhode Island nursing home, according to this account in The Providence Journal:
…Usually about two to four hours before a patient dies, Oscar goes to them. He hops onto the bed, curls up, and stays with them.
The cat’s “mere presence at the bedside is viewed by physicians and nursing-home staff as an almost absolute indicator of impending death, allowing staff members to adequately notify families,” wrote Dosa, in his article for the Journal of Medicine.
All cats are hungry for souls, but only a few know precisely when to get them…and how.
Notice that the ProJo’s web staff slugged the story death_cat.
Update on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 10:36AM by
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