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SYDNEY (Reuters) – When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.

But Dr. David Dosa, who broke the news of Oscar's abilities in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, said he never intended to make Oscar sound creepy or his arrival at a bedside to be viewed negatively.

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perhaps he just likes to sleep beside ones who are quiet?

at my mom's nursing home, several are always yelling.

I think I'm right in saying that dogs can sense/smell cancerous tumours within the human body. I think this has been known for some time. There may even have been dogs trained for that specific use. When you think about their ability to pick up on scents with their extraordinary sense of smell, then its not so far fetched. Its certainly not creepy. This cat is clearly showing similar abilities