This article gave me the both the chills and a warm fuzzy feeling at the same time...Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.
Update: Here is the PDF article from the New England Journal of medicine.
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