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How a cat determines the imminent death of a person: 3 things in your pet's behavior
11.08.2024 13:46
Cats are unique animals. Among other things, these cute, fluffy whiskers with tails can cure their owners of various ailments.
Also, many of them are able to predict impending cataclysms in advance.
The cat also has the ability to predict the imminent death of a person.
Oscar
This ability has been demonstrated more than once. Mainly, however, by those with a moustache who live in institutions with a large number of people, for example, in hospitals or nursing homes.
Let's remember at least the cat Oscar, who became famous throughout the world in 2006. He lived in a nursing home.
That year, the staff of the institution noticed that the animal began to behave strangely: periodically, it looked into a specific room.
There the cat jumped onto the bed of an old man and lay with him for a long time. After some time, this man died.
Oscar was almost never wrong. Some people thought he had some kind of mystical abilities.
But the fact is that his other relatives in other countries demonstrated something similar.
Three hypotheses
Scientists tried to figure out what was going on here. They put forward three main hypotheses.
The first is that a cat smells the “smell of death” – the subtle scent that comes from certain substances before death.
Second hypothesis: Before death, a person usually becomes weaker, moves and speaks less.
Such quiet behavior attracts four-legged friends, who are big fans of peace and quiet.
This is why people tend to go to the bed of a dying person when they are on vacation – this place seems to them to be the safest and most peaceful.
Third hypothesis: A cat understands human facial expressions and, accordingly, recognizes even the slightest grimaces of pain and suffering.
Moreover, they tell the animal that soon this particular person will go to heaven.
