Oscar the therapy cat

In July 2007 David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, in the New England Journal of Medicine features an article of Oscar, he started to gain attention. Dr. Dosa never had any intention to  give the people negative thoughts of the cat but just to share the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat. Oscar was adopted and raised in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The hospital is known as a "pet-friendly" facility because there lived six cats including Oscar. But before Oscar became the therapy cat there was also a pet who became the first therapy cat and named Henry(named after Henry J. Steere). Oscar is just an ordinary cat who was gifted with a talent to sense which patient will die.

He was raised to be a therapy cat and it was a success after the staffs noticed that Oscar would curl up to patients who are next to die because Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre is a hospital who treats patients with diseases and illness' which are on the final stages of life. Some explanations say that he observes from the lack of movement of patients or that the cat smells ketones which is the biochemicals released by dying cells. He would make his own rounds like a real doctor, he would sniff the patients and curl up and sleep with them. To whoever he sleep with the staffs would call the patient's family members because of the sign that the patient would die soon. And as predicted, the patient will die for about an hour or so, but im not sure if ever time he does that the patient would really die. Even when he is removed at the patients bed he would stay at the door and meow for protest wanting to get inside and sleep with the patient.Many animal experts and veterinarians say that Oscar may have the smelled the patient or observe the patients lack of movement. But there are also many claims that Oscar has any weird skills. But we don't know what the cat really is. Many thinks that Oscar is the grim reaper or the angel of death but some of the patient's families that Oscar for giving them time to comfort their loved ones in their last hours.No more further studies was researched about Oscar's abilities.

What do you think about Oscar?Is he a miracle or just a big joke? 
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