Cumin, aka Ytti Bitty, Little Doll, etc., is an eleven-year-old (born 4/99 in a no-kill shelter). Jean and her husband adopted her when she was two. Cumin is a remarkable girl who loves visitors and attention, and because of her friendly personality and wonderful heart, she’s become a therapy cat for nursing homes. “Our church [...]
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 [...]
An inebriated alcoholic stabbed a church “therapy cat” was sentenced to 9 months behind bars. The man blamed it on the alcohol but was stopped by the judge to quit making excuses. The man claimed that the cat, named Scatt, attacked him first and he reacted to it by hurling the cat against the wall [...]
