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  • Oscar The Cat

    Ok, either way someone see's it, there is scientific proof that Oscar could be using his senses to detect and ''odor'' of death. Scientists for the most part, have NO faith or beliefs of anything that they cannot explain with their instruments, and their scientific mind's thought process. Just because something cannot be touched, sensed, or ...
    Posted to Science by Rubberdonkey on August 1, 2007

  • More research needed

    This cat needs a CAT scan and other imaging studies to see if his brain is atypical. I, too, agree that this story is a human interest story, not a scientific story. You're right there was no mention of whether the cat's success rate was statistically significant. Its well known, already, that animals can sense when someone's blood sugar is high ...
    Posted to Science by Dr. Psych on August 1, 2007

  • Re: Oscar the Cat

    I completely agree with you LilMissArthur! I was actually somewhat offended when I read this. When I was younger my grandfather moved into my house so my parents and I could take care of him; he was dying of cancer. He seemed to be doing a bit better, but we noticed that my cat, Binx, had been spending a lot more time with him in those last ...
    Posted to Science by MrsJackson on August 1, 2007

  • Oscar the cat

    The article refers to nurses knowing when someone is going to die. Do we only have male nurses now? News to me....
    Posted to Science by JohnnaH on August 1, 2007

  • Oscar the Cat

    I believe there is comfort in knowing Oscar senses when one is close to death. To me, there is something more appealing about a cuddly creature snuggling with you on your death bed as opposed to having a death sniffing nurse at your side, not that both could be beneficial to entering the hereafter state comfortably. I think the story of Oscar ...
    Posted to Science by smithhousehold on August 1, 2007

  • Re: Cat

    Animals are sentive to health and emotional oras in their people. That the retirement home's cat is able to ease the patient's last hours is a wouderful gift. My cats comfort me when I'm sick. I'm sure that you've heard of a dog that has been by their master, or tried to be when that person is sick. That is the whole reason that help animals were ...
    Posted to Science by praisecat on August 1, 2007

  • Death Cats

    What struck me as odd about the ''death cat'' article and the subsequent attention it got was the sense that this was somehow a new revelation. The PBS series Nova featured a similar nursing home cat quite a few years back. Also, my father spent some time in a nursing home that had a cat that did the very same thing. I'll wager that there are ...
    Posted to Science by melissaan on August 1, 2007

  • The cat: Tony's animal totem

    I think the ginger cat represents Tony's essential nature. If you watched Northern Exposure, you saw Chase (and the other NE writers) made frequent use of animal totems. I think Chase has used this in the Sporanos before. Remember that hulking black bear in Tony's yard a few seasons back? The cat is charming, yet menacing. It kills rats. It ...
    Posted to TV Club by JackieW on June 12, 2007

  • Oh Brian. The cat

    is critical. Not because it introduces a supernatural element to the Sopranos, but because Paulie thinks it does. If you ever spend a lot of time with people of Southern Italian descent whose people didn't wander too far from Ellis Island, you know that they are an incredibly superstitious lot, especially those of a certain age. A bird in the ...
    Posted to TV Club by rundeep on June 11, 2007
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