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[AFA]

Does Cat Predict Deaths of Patients?

When Oscar curls up on a patient's bed and stays there, the staff knows it's time to call the family. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.

The feline's accuracy has been observed in 25 cases at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/does-cat-predict-deaths-of-patients/20070725172309990001

 

[Friday on my mind]

Does Cat Predict Deaths of Patients?

When Oscar curls up on a patient's bed and stays there, the staff knows it's time to call the family. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.

The feline's accuracy has been observed in 25 cases at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/does-cat-predict-deaths-of-patients/20070725172309990001

I heard where the doctors tried to get him to go to people they thought had a day left and he wouldn't and they lasted several more days.Cats are something.

 

[tunsty]

Maybe the cat has some deadly disease that the staff don't know about...
four hours of sitting beside a disease-ridden cat, would finish anyone off.

 

[D-rock]

I would hate to have that cat come up to you just because he likes you. You would always have to worry. :1orglaugh

 

[che]

Must find that cat and add his powers to my own, muuuuhahahaha!!!!
Or something like that right.

 

[senob44]

Maybe the cat has some deadly disease that the staff don't know about...
four hours of sitting beside a disease-ridden cat, would finish anyone off.

Tunsty's got it right, it's just a matter of linking cause and effect.

 

[ThatRedWing]

Monkey unlocks himself, eludes zoo staff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070801/ap_on_fe_st/odd_monkey_amok;_ylt=Alsnzk7c.lPw0oGrrZ4p_6TtiBIF

 

[D-rock]

Monkey unlocks himself, eludes zoo staff.

Monkeys...is there anything they can't do? :1orglaugh

 

[member006]

:eek: OMG

Where did tunsty go? :crying:

LL

 

[slowhand]

:eek: OMG

Where did tunsty go? :crying:

LL

Yeah LL I have notice that his avatar and Sig is missing hope everything is OK with him.

 

[D-rock]

Yeah LL I have notice that his avatar and Sig is missing hope everything is OK with him.

Maybe his image host yanked the plug on it while he has been gone for a few days. :dunno:

 

[member006]

I heard where the doctors tried to get him to go to people they thought had a day left and he wouldn't and they lasted several more days.Cats are something.

I so believe this.

I had two cats. One favored me totally, the other was my fathers cat. She only dealt with him. She was not an affectionate cat at all, scratch me and leave me alone type. When my dad had reached the end of his long illness and was finally totally bedridden for only about two days, she came to my room and was walking back and forth meowing. I went to my dad and he was laboring breathing. I gave him another breathing treatment, but he was combative, pushing me away. He hadn't spoken a word for a week. She jumped on his bed and lay beside him. I saw it in his eyes though and just talked to him, told him of his football team kicking ass. That his favorite redheaded home nurse was coming tomorrow and watched him slip away holding his hand. The cat purring very loudly. After the bed was removed from my home, the cat lay in that spot for weeks. She grieved terribly for him. Sorry so long I just got lost in the moment.

LL

 

[Friday on my mind]

I so believe this.

I had two cats. One favored me totally, the other was my fathers cat. She only dealt with him. She was not an affectionate cat at all, scratch me and leave me alone type. When my dad had reached the end of his long illness and was finally totally bedridden for only about two days, she came to my room and was walking back and forth meowing. I went to my dad and he was laboring breathing. I gave him another breathing treatment, but he was combative, pushing me away. He hadn't spoken a word for a week. She jumped on his bed and lay beside him. I saw it in his eyes though and just talked to him, told him of his football team kicking ass. That his favorite redheaded home nurse was coming tomorrow and watched him slip away holding his hand. The cat purring very loudly. After the bed was removed from my home, the cat lay in that spot for weeks. She grieved terribly for him. Sorry so long I just got lost in the moment.

LL

Beautiful story LL.Had cats all my life so I know that they sense things on some level we don't.Let me just tell a quick brief more happy example of a cat story.When i was a kid we had a female cat and we lived in Apts where you had your own porches.So after she had her 1st litter of kittens she had them out on the porch on the 1st day of spring like weather with all my family out there too and a neighbors puppy somehow got close to the kittens.The cat turned and seen the puppy and went nuts.So the dog takes off with the cat close behind.We all started chasing them both,suddenly after rounding the corner of the Bldg. the dog just stopped and flopped over and the cat just stood there waiting for it to move.Now here come the neighbors screaming "your cat killed our dog","your cat killed our dog" but the cat had never touched it.So they pick up the dog and he starts to come out of it.We said see our cat just made your dog feint lol.True story!

 

[senob44]

Touching story, LL. Thank you for sharing. Contrary to my above attempts at humor, I do believe this story about the cat. Cats, specifically, and domesticated animals in general seem to have an uncanny knack of knowing when someone dear to them is in trouble. I have a story that is actually about my late dog, Patches. First we had a cat named Tom and then 4 years later we got Patches. They lived together in the house and would frequently play with each other and got along very well. They would compete for our affections, too. When it came time for us to put Tom to sleep, for the next few weeks, Patches would repeatedly go looking for Tom in his favorite spots. She would look at his cat bed and just whine sadly, looking to us for an answer. She would check on the chair under the table, behind the couch, up at the window, each time sadly whining because she couldn't find him. It broke our heart. It just goes to show that when people say animals don't really have emotions, it looks like they are definitely wrong.

 

[member006]

Beautiful story LL.Had cats all my life so I know that they sense things on some level we don't.Let me just tell a quick brief more happy example of a cat story.When i was a kid we had a female cat and we lived in Apts where you had your own porches.So after she had her 1st litter of kittens she had them out on the porch on the 1st day of spring like weather with all my family out there too and a neighbors puppy somehow got close to the kittens.The cat turned and seen the puppy and went nuts.So the dog takes off with the cat close behind.We all started chasing them both,suddenly after rounding the corner of the Bldg. the dog just stopped and flopped over and the cat just stood there waiting for it to move.Now here come the neighbors screaming "your cat killed our dog","your cat killed our dog" but the cat had never touched it.So they pick up the dog and he starts to come out of it.We said see our cat just made your dog feint lol.True story!

Great story. LOL Thaks for sharing.

Touching story, LL. Thank you for sharing. Contrary to my above attempts at humor, I do believe this story about the cat. Cats, specifically, and domesticated animals in general seem to have an uncanny knack of knowing when someone dear to them is in trouble. I have a story that is actually about my late dog, Patches. First we had a cat named Tom and then 4 years later we got Patches. They lived together in the house and would frequently play with each other and got along very well. They would compete for our affections, too. When it came time for us to put Tom to sleep, for the next few weeks, Patches would repeatedly go looking for Tom in his favorite spots. She would look at his cat bed and just whine sadly, looking to us for an answer. She would check on the chair under the table, behind the couch, up at the window, each time sadly whining because she couldn't find him. It broke our heart. It just goes to show that when people say animals don't really have emotions, it looks like they are definitely wrong.

That's so touching. I know how your family felt. I felt it watching her and hearing her grieve for my dad. On the other hand, my cat never left my side during that time and was very attentive and aware of my grief. Even waiting outside the bathroom door, something she had never done in the 10 years I had her at that point. I know animals have emotions, personalities and cats are very underrated. They are much smarter than given credit for.

LL

 

[D-rock]

Touching story, LL. Thank you for sharing. Contrary to my above attempts at humor, I do believe this story about the cat. Cats, specifically, and domesticated animals in general seem to have an uncanny knack of knowing when someone dear to them is in trouble.

They might be able to literally smell medical conditions that are wrong with people. Dogs have been trained to sniff out certain types of cancers and some are able to smell when a person is about to have a seizure. It's something that has never been looked at carefully until a few years ago.

 

[ThatRedWing]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_fe_st/odd_monkey_amok;_ylt=Alle0dAvrwYhzs0aqavWBjms0NUE

This monkey doesn't like being locked up. I wonder if I can get him for a crime spree? j/k

 

[senob44]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_fe_st/odd_monkey_amok;_ylt=Alle0dAvrwYhzs0aqavWBjms0NUE

This monkey doesn't like being locked up. I wonder if I can get him for a crime spree? j/k

When the monkeys are running amok, you know the WTF? Files are back in business! :nanner:

 

[senob44]

A story of a lucky kitty! This happened about 5 miles from me here in NJ:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-08-13-cat-couch-fire_N.htm

 

[AFA]

Hollow out a light bulb to make a sea monkey condo!

http://www.diylife.com/2007/07/13/diy-hollow-out-a-light-bulb-to-make-a-sea-monkey-condo/