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A cat named Oscar living in a nursing home in the city Providence, Rhode Island, has repeatedly proven that it can to feel the approaching death of a person. Already documented more than 50 cases when Oscar came to patients shortly before of how they died, and spent the last minutes with them of life.
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Dr. David Dosa tells the unique story of a visionary cat (David Dosa), Geriatrician and associate professor at Brown University at USA. According to the physician, over the past six years, the cat has rarely been mistaken with diagnosis. Sometimes even medical staff took wrong decisions, while Oscar accurately predicted death.
For the first time, Dr. Dosa told the world about an amazing animal in article published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007 year. Since then, the cat has predicted even more deaths, convincing Doctors is that what is happening is not just a series of coincidences.
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David Dosa eventually released a book describing him observing a unique animal called Oscar Walks: extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat “(” Making rounds with Oscar: The extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat “).
The book describes a typical Oscar day. According to the author, the cat on walks around nursing home rooms all day, rarely spending time in the company of old people who are still fighting for their a life.
If the cat clings to someone and settles down nearby, then with a big this person will not be likely in the near future. Interestingly, Oscar begins to scrape the door of a closed chamber if she has a dying patient.
Once Oscar came to a woman with a blood clot in her leg. He lay down on cold limb and lay on it until the death of the old woman. There was also a case where an Oscar, completing its “inspection” and not finding no one who needs help came back after a couple of hours to lead into the world of another dying patient.
To test the paranormal gift of an animal, a nurse tried to put Oscar on the patient’s bed, which, according to their the assumption was to die soon. But the cat jumped out of bed and went to another. The man Oscar moved to died in the same evening. And the patient, to whom the staff predicted an ambulance death, lived a few more days.
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According to The Telegraph, in his book, Dr. Dosa does not try give any scientific explanation of the cat’s abilities. But he suggests that Oscars, like dogs that smell cancer cells, can smell ketones – chemicals with a distinctive aroma emitted dying cells.
California doctor Jill Goldman Certified animal behavior specialist another theory: the cat draws attention to the lack of mobility in person and associates this with poor health. Cause for no one it’s no secret that in this way domestic cats feel the disease the owner.
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