![]() In other cases, a sick cat tends to alienate himself from his own colony in order to prevent being attacked by other cats because his different smell may trigger an alarm with other cats within the same colony.Ī cat can survive without vision because he can smell his way to get to where he wants to go. The way they care for each other is by grooming into the ears. In a multi-cat household, an ear mite infected cat is often found being cared for by his feline buddies. When a person is ill, the body is thought to emit a slightly different scent or pheromone that an animal such as a cat can easily detect. Many cats have the ability to tell if somebody might be sick, including their own peers. David Dosa who broke the news in the paper said he never intended to make Oscar sound negative, unfortunately, many people who read that piece might not truly understand such behavior. ![]() ![]() I was a bit irked, when the news about Oscar came about in the New England Journal of Medicine back in 2007, portraying the cat in a way that some people found it creepy. 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." ![]()
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