Oscar Cat

10/01/2009

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/328/F1

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine -- A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat -- Figure 1

10/01/2009

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3102962n

CBS News video: Cat Is Harbinger Of Death - Oscar the Cat seems to know when patients in the nursing home where he lives are about to die. He visits their bedside in their final hours, providing comfort. Richard Schlesinger reports.

10/01/2009

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/oscar-cat-with-the-purr-of-death/2007/07/26/1185339167772.html

A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left. Oscar's purr, when keeping close company with the dying, is so intense it is almost a low rumble.

10/01/2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_(cat)

10/01/2009

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/medizin-und-psychologie/Diese-Katze-riecht-den-Tod/story/16692927

Die Katze mit dem todsicheren Riecher: Tiere sind begnadete Diagnostiker. Sie erkennen Krankheiten wie Krebs und das nahende Ableben.