I always believe animals have six sense, they can sense danger coming like an earthquake. A cat named Oscar in Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island knows who’s going to die an hour later. It predicts patients’ deaths by curling up next to the patients in their final hours. Therefore, the aloof cat is called “furry angel of death”.
If you doubt about the extraordinary gift of Oscar and think this is just happened coincidently, in fact Oscar has “predicted” about 50 correct calls over five years. Sometimes Oscar is more accurate than the medical staff. Nurses once placed Oscar in the bed of a patient they thought gravely ill. Oscar wouldn’t stay put, and the staff thought his streak was broken. Turns out, the medical professionals were wrong, and the patient rallied for two days. But in the final hours, Oscar held his bedside vigil without prompting.
David Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, Rhode Island, who treats patients with severe dementia, was skeptical when he was first told about Oscar. He explains the process in a book released this week, “Making Rounds With Oscar: “The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat.”
Dosa’s essay about Oscar in the New England Journal of Medicine published in 2007 made the cat famous. He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, however, he found that many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence. Some of them even have praised Oscar in newspaper death notices and eulogies.
“Maybe they’re seeing what they want to see,” he said, “but what they’re seeing is a comfort to them in a real difficult time in their lives.”
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