Thursday, July 26, 2007

I think I'd freak

If this kitty became very affectionate to me:
Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.

According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.

Staff now alert the families of residents when he sits down next to their ailing loved one.

"He doesn't make many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," David Dosa, a professor at Brown University who carried out the research, told the Associated Press news agency.


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(Picture from article.)

I wonder if the HMOs are trying to figure out what the kitty's billing hours should be....

Update 7/27: Steve Bates of The Yellow Doggerel Democrat suggests this would be a more appropriate pic:


icdeadpeeps

7 comments:

Sorghum Crow said...

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog person.
Cats find me alluring, I think they know I have an allergy....

mapaghimagsik said...

Of course the cat seems to know.Who else is sucking out and devouring their souls.

"I'm on ur chest, eating ur soulz!"

Anonymous said...

Maybe Karl wants a kitty?

Regards,

Tengrain

Steve Bates said...

For the record: in how many cases have people visited by Oscar NOT died in a short time? Do such instances even get reported? My bet: noooo. People are fond of their magic, especially in matters of life and death.

In any case, what better company in one's last hours than a fine-looking cat like Oscar?

As for the soul-sucking, if I've got one, kitty is welcome to it; it's bound to be better having it consumed by a cat than having to share eternity with "Christians" like George W. Bush. Now THAT prospect would make me freak.

ellroon said...

I figure it's chemical and the kitty realizes the change. I find it charming that the cat chooses to stay with the dying person rather than be elsewhere.

Olbermann talked about the cat too. The kitty will visit living people as well, it just doesn't stay long.

But how nice to have a little furry thought to be with you at the beginning of your next great adventure into the unknown...

Steve Bates said...

I presume you've seen the i c dead peeps lolcat?

ellroon said...

Poor little kitty... looks like the photographer surprised it a little too well...