"A cat predicting death" who saw 50 inpatients clinging to the smell of death

Oscars of cats kept in Rhode Island hospice usually wander inside the hospital carelessly to people, but only the last few hours inpatient's death have been watching as if they were watching I heard that he will not leave his / her side like the patient.

The ability to "see" fifty patients and to "predict" the timing of the death of the terminal patients may be more accurate than the staff of the hospital, so when Oscar jumps to the patient's bed, the patient's family I am getting in touch with you.

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Currently 5-year old Oscar is a kitten who care for patients with severe dementia Rhode IslandProvidenceIt was taken over by the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.


Usually, Oscar walks from the sickroom to the sickroom and does not always stay by one patient, but only a few hours before the death will not leave the patient. When I'm locked out of the room of a dying patient I will scratch the door and try to enter inside.

Oscar's "predictive ability" is sometimes more accurate than hospital staff. At one time, when an Oscar was placed on a patient's bed that the nurses felt as "short lived", the Oscar jumped out with great momentum and went to another room and sat down by the patient in that room. Patients in the hospital room where Oscar ran for themselves took their breath during that night, and those who had thought that nurses had few remaining hours lasted two days.

There are five cats besides Oscar in the hospital, but it is only Oscar that shows such "predictive ability".

Brown UniversityAssociate professor and geriologist Dr. David Dosa wrote about Oscar's "predictive ability" in New England Journal of Medicine magazine in 2007. Dr. Dosa continues to predict the death of the patient rarely after that and I am convinced that this is not a coincidence.

Dr. Dosa and other staff of the hospital now seem to have to let the family members of that patient hospital if Oscar jumps over the bed and goes to bed with the patient.

"If you do not do it as usual and do not hang around for 2 minutes and you eat something somewhere as you slide out of the hospital room, you will be back by the patient, it seems as if you are going to sleep," Dosa said.

In his book "Making rounds with Oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat" written about Oscar, a firm scientific explanation about Oscar's action is not provided, but Like a dog to be done, Oscar emits a unique smell when the cell diesKetoneIt is suggested that you can celebrate it. "

"Cat catching death" may feel ominous, but patient families and friends never get scared of Oscar, thankful that Oscar will stay there at the end of the patient , Occasionally praises Oscar for even dead advertisements of newspapers at times.

"People have found a great consolation that Oscar is there when an important person takes their breath and that Oscar was there staying even if they could not stay there," Dr. Dosa I am talking.

In addition, Dr. Dosa's book about this mysterious cat's Oscar is said to be publishing a Japanese translation from Hayakawa Shobo on February 19, 2010 as "Oscar - A cat notifying of the departure to heaven".