Oscar the Cat
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The Living Force
wow! how cool!
Can you imagine it. This bringer of death making his rounds, you lying there in bed. Desperately, but no!. there he comes paying you a visit. Your last.
Damn you fury grim reaper, damn you.
Anyway if true. It’s one of those 'abilities' which makes you thinking.
Damn you fury grim reaper, damn you.
Anyway if true. It’s one of those 'abilities' which makes you thinking.
Cat predicts 50 deaths
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7129952/Cat-predicts-50-deaths-in-RI-nursing-home.html
Dr David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, said that five years of records showed Oscar rarely erring, sometimes proving medical staff at the New England nursing home wrong in their predictions over which patients were close to death.
The cat, now five and generally unsociable, was adopted as a kitten at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, Rhode Island, which specialises in caring for people with severe dementia.
Dr Dosa first publicised Oscar's gift in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007. Since then, the cat has gone on to double the number of imminent deaths it has sensed and convinced the geriatrician that it is no fluke.
The tortoiseshell and white cat spends its days pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time with patients except those with just hours to live.
If kept outside the room of a dying patient, Oscar will scratch on the door trying to get in.
When nurses once placed the cat on the bed of a patient they thought close to death, Oscar "charged out" and went to sit beside someone in another room. The cat's judgement was better than that of the nurses: the second patient died that evening, while the first lived for two more days.
Dr Dosa and other staff are so confident in Oscar's accuracy that they will alert family members when the cat jumps on to a bed and stretches out beside its occupant.
"It's not like he dawdles. He'll slip out for two minutes, grab some kibble and then he's back at the patient's side. It's like he's literally on a vigil," Dr Dosa wrote.
Dr Dosa noted that the nursing home keeps five other cats, but none of the others have ever displayed a similar ability.
In his book, "Making rounds with Oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat", Dr Dosa offers no solid scientific explanation for Oscar's behaviour.
He suggests Oscar is able - like dogs, which can reportedly smell cancer - to detect ketones, the distinctly-odoured biochemicals given off by dying cells.
Far from recoiling from Oscar's presence, now they know its significance, relatives and friends of patients have been comforted and sometimes praised the cat in newspaper death notices and eulogies, said Dr Dosa.
"People were actually taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass. He was there when they couldn't be," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7129952/Cat-predicts-50-deaths-in-RI-nursing-home.html
Dr David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, said that five years of records showed Oscar rarely erring, sometimes proving medical staff at the New England nursing home wrong in their predictions over which patients were close to death.
The cat, now five and generally unsociable, was adopted as a kitten at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, Rhode Island, which specialises in caring for people with severe dementia.
Dr Dosa first publicised Oscar's gift in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007. Since then, the cat has gone on to double the number of imminent deaths it has sensed and convinced the geriatrician that it is no fluke.
The tortoiseshell and white cat spends its days pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time with patients except those with just hours to live.
If kept outside the room of a dying patient, Oscar will scratch on the door trying to get in.
When nurses once placed the cat on the bed of a patient they thought close to death, Oscar "charged out" and went to sit beside someone in another room. The cat's judgement was better than that of the nurses: the second patient died that evening, while the first lived for two more days.
Dr Dosa and other staff are so confident in Oscar's accuracy that they will alert family members when the cat jumps on to a bed and stretches out beside its occupant.
"It's not like he dawdles. He'll slip out for two minutes, grab some kibble and then he's back at the patient's side. It's like he's literally on a vigil," Dr Dosa wrote.
Dr Dosa noted that the nursing home keeps five other cats, but none of the others have ever displayed a similar ability.
In his book, "Making rounds with Oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat", Dr Dosa offers no solid scientific explanation for Oscar's behaviour.
He suggests Oscar is able - like dogs, which can reportedly smell cancer - to detect ketones, the distinctly-odoured biochemicals given off by dying cells.
Far from recoiling from Oscar's presence, now they know its significance, relatives and friends of patients have been comforted and sometimes praised the cat in newspaper death notices and eulogies, said Dr Dosa.
"People were actually taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass. He was there when they couldn't be," he said.
spyraal
Jedi Master
Re: Cat predicts 50 deaths
Indeed! :/ A universe consisting of several inter-penetrating densities of consciousness/materiality, populated with beings who cross-feed from each other, is no kinder garden...
Sometimes i get the primordial awe of the tiny fish swimming in an endless ocean of deep dark water! Still, it is good the awe in these thoughts is greater than the fear...
:)
Laura said:
Indeed! :/ A universe consisting of several inter-penetrating densities of consciousness/materiality, populated with beings who cross-feed from each other, is no kinder garden...
Sometimes i get the primordial awe of the tiny fish swimming in an endless ocean of deep dark water! Still, it is good the awe in these thoughts is greater than the fear...
:)
Ares
Jedi Master
Re: Cat predicts 50 deaths
wow that possibility hadn't even entered my mind! I guess this is because I really love cats, so never considered them to be a threat. Now i see this obviously blinded me for attacks from that angle - I know I read about it, but never really brought this into actual practice with regard to pets!
oh well, something to keep in mind - thank you Laura.
Laura said:
wow that possibility hadn't even entered my mind! I guess this is because I really love cats, so never considered them to be a threat. Now i see this obviously blinded me for attacks from that angle - I know I read about it, but never really brought this into actual practice with regard to pets!
oh well, something to keep in mind - thank you Laura.
Lorraine
Jedi
Laura said:
I tend to agree with Laura. Our cat used to love lying on top of me. At first I thought it was cute. Then I began to notice a funny churning feeling in my stomach when she lay on me. It was unpleasant and I felt she was drawing energy out of me. My husband enjoys these moments with her, but I have stopped encouraging Kitty. I’ve even told my husband to be careful not to let her draw his energy, but of course he thinks the idea is crazy.
I have noticed after I had been to a Reiki group or even did a lot of Reiki on myself she would be eager to lie on me and was quite miffed when I stopped her. Instead she would lie on my side of the bed. I even stopped that by piling everything I could find on the bed. Then she would lay on books and handbags. I still love her but it’s a bit creepy.
The latest thing is I tend to do EE at the foot of the bed and Kitty has now taken to lying on the carpet at the foot of the bed……I get the feeling that she is picking up something in that part of the room.
As you can see Kitty is my avatar and she is in her favourite spot – my side of the bed.
Ares
Jedi Master
Lorraine said:
Lorraine, it would be interesting to see if you started having this realization AFTER you read/heard Laura's comments or BEFORE? If AFTER, then I wonder how much suggestion is playing a part - ie. do you think you really recognize some feeding going on, or do you feel that way because it was suggested so by a higher 'authority'...
Personally, I've not noticed this aspect - i'll pay more attention to this (but it's so hard when you love your pets so much :) and I guess that applies to people/things as well.
moksha said:
Welll, even tho one could get toxoplasmosis from cats
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=55.msg20651#msg20651
I am guilty of letting my little guy sleep beside me. I do notice when he lays on my stomach/chest, I get a weird feeling but it's cause his weight is inhibiting my breathing. ;D
He's an 11 year old Persian whose health has always been delicate, and he's had chronic gum infections that resulted in the removal of most of his teeth. I give him reiki on a regular basis, and he always seems "perkier" afterwards. When he's had enough, he gets up and walks away. I almost lost him a couple years ago, and I'd like to think that the massive doses of reiki I bestowed on him may have helped his recovery. :)
I hope he lives until we make the "transition" to wherever it is we end up cause losing him before then would really crush me. :(