Oscar the cat who is known to habitually curl up on a bed with a terminally ill patient a couple hours before the patient departs. There are many speculations about why Oscar shows such unique ability. The most probable explanation is that cats’ characteristic of being creatures of habits and the heavy dependence on their [...]

Oscar, a therapy cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, was called the cat who could predict death or even a “furry grim reaper” or “four-legged angel of death.” I was a bit irked, when the news about Oscar came about in the New England Journal of Medicine back [...]