Cat can predict death? Stories about pets predicting or knowing about death?

Just read about this cat at a nursing home who knows when someone is about to die.( tinyurl.com/29md48 ). Anyone have any stories like this to share (any pets, not just cats)? I will share one in the discussion area.

Asked by MissBert 53 months ago Similar questions: Cat predict death Stories pets predicting knowing Pets.

Similar questions: Cat predict death Stories pets predicting knowing.

Nothing about cats surprises me anymore. I've lived with cats for over thirty years. Over the years, I've come to respect their abilities in many areas.

What is really strange is that mostly they seem totally preoccupied with their little world and then suddenly they show a lot more knowledge about the human world than we thought that they had. My first cat was a black and white (tuxedo) cat. One day we had the television on to the local educational channel.

She pretty well ignored the show until they did a shot of penguins in Antarctica. Our cat bounded off of the chair and sat down right in front of the TV and hissed at the penguins until they went off screen. Lots of quirky things about cats makes me not surprised at much that they do. From what I understand, cats in the wild will cuddle with a sick or dying other cat, so the cat being able to predict death doesn't surprise me at all.

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Cancer-sniffing dogs. I saw this program on tv about a year ago. It was about how some organization is training dogs to sniff out cancer in people.

They said they'd gotten interested in it because several people had told them stories about dogs "diagnosing" cancer or tumors in their owners. The most remarkable one I remember was this woman who had a little black terrier-type dog. It suddenly start focusing on her left breast and barking and growling and carrying on.

She didn't know what was up, but the bizarre behavior continued until she decided to check it out. Doctors found out that she had a pretty advanced tumor going on. She hadn't a clue!

That one gave me goosebumps! BTW, I saw the cat story you mentioned in the newspaper today. I read it aloud to my husband and he started laughing and calling Oscar "The Cat of Death," and making jokes about people seeing him coming and going, "Shoo!

Shoo! Pssst! Go away!" etc. , which I thought was pretty funny, but it got me thinking of how things have changed---for the better, for once.

We always hear how society is falling apart, morals are breaking down, people are rude, thoughtless, etc., but it seems we, as a whole, are growing more open-minded and less frightened of the unknown. Instead of all these doctors and caretakers watching Oscar with wonder tinged with awe as he does his thing, in the not too distant past they would've no doubt burned him as a demon or some sort of evil-doer.

1 20 years ago, my grandpa had liver cancer. A neighbor's dog adopted him and every day came over to sit in the sun with my grandfather. In fact, the last photo ever taken of my grandfather, he's outside with the dog (whose name was Murphy).

The dog had never come into the yard before, only encountered my grandfather along the street. The day after my grandfather died, my grandmother waited outside for Murphy and told him his friend was dead. Murphy never came back into the yard.My grandfather wasn't outside every day in the last weeks of his life, and the dog still came back the next day, so he must have understood.

20 years ago, my grandpa had liver cancer. A neighbor's dog adopted him and every day came over to sit in the sun with my grandfather. In fact, the last photo ever taken of my grandfather, he's outside with the dog (whose name was Murphy).

The dog had never come into the yard before, only encountered my grandfather along the street. The day after my grandfather died, my grandmother waited outside for Murphy and told him his friend was dead. Murphy never came back into the yard.My grandfather wasn't outside every day in the last weeks of his life, and the dog still came back the next day, so he must have understood.

What is it about us that makes us continue to get pets, knowing that we will outlive them and ...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.