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  1. 26th July 2007, 03:30 PM #1
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    Default A Deadly Cat................

    When people talk about deadly cats, I automatically think of Panthers, Lions, Geelong etc but not not a small feline. Gee get that cat off the bed nurse, or he be the death of me.

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    DEATH could come in a furrier form than most people imagine. A hospice cat at a nursing and rehabilitation centre in the US has a talent for sensing when patients are going to die – and curls up beside them for their final few hours. Oscar the cat's inside knowledge is so reliable, workers have begun alerting patients' families when he chooses to settle on their bed, the Associated Press reported today.

    "Many family members take some solace in it," Dr David Dosa of Brown University told the news agency. "They seem to appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one". Dr Dosa wrote an essay on Oscar's macabre talents – observed in up to 25 cases at a Rhode Island nursing home – in the New England Journal of Medicine.

    The 2-year-old feline, who was adopted as a kitten, has even received a wall plaque commending his "compassionate hospice care", AP reported. When Oscar chooses a patient, it usually means they have only a few hours to live.
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  2. 26th July 2007, 04:41 PM #2
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    Just goes to show that cats are smart... it obviously jumps off their face when someone's looking.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!! View Post
    Just goes to show that cats are smart... it obviously jumps off their face when someone's looking.
    was thinking the same thing.......
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    I love it!!!
    It gives me an excuse to kick the cat off the bed....'cos I'm not ready to go!
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  5. 26th July 2007, 06:29 PM #5
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    You need an excuse to kick cats?
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  6. 27th July 2007, 09:13 AM #6
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    Oscar is now famous in the SMH this morning.
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  7. 27th July 2007, 09:50 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gingermick View Post
    You need an excuse to kick cats?
    GOLD .

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  8. 27th July 2007, 11:16 AM #8
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    We have had the same cat for 16 years. Every night she is in our bed and every morning she looks disappointed. She needs to take lessons from this one.
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  9. 27th July 2007, 12:34 PM #9
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    I was a skeptic when I first read the post. However on yesterday evenings news (NBC) they did the story about the cat.
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  10. 27th July 2007, 06:17 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    I was a skeptic when I first read the post. However on yesterday evenings news (NBC) they did the story about the cat.

    It was on the news, must be true.

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