Cats are not only intelligent, but also mystical.
He is Oscar, a six-month-old kitten who was adopted by a nursing home in the US in 2005 to be trained as a therapy cat.
Although Oscar usually prefers to be alone, he sometimes crawls into residents' beds and curls up next to them.
What is surprising is that the residents Oscar cares for usually die within hours!
At first, the staff didn't mind it much. But after this happened 20 times, the workers finally noticed something unique about Oscar. They began to believe that Oscar knew when someone was near death and would stay by their side. So when they saw Oscar next to a nursing home resident, they would call the person's family to warn them.
Researchers believe that Oscar can smell the biochemicals released by the cells of dying people, so Oscar chooses to comfort the lonely dying person.
On one occasion, staff were convinced a resident was about to die, but Oscar refused to sit with the sick person. Instead, he chose another elderly resident who appeared healthier to accompany him. That person died first.
Oscar the therapy cat died in 2022, and throughout his life he had accurately predicted over 100 deaths.
(From various sources
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