The Cat That Can Predict Death

[Joest]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/25/death.cat.ap/index.html

He knows when you will die.

[h00pla]

So if we stay away from the cat and don't elt it curl up next to us, we won't die?

[Dragon]

Ok, if I knew what that cat could do and it sat next to me, I would be all like whoa..

[Vagrant]

Hmm. Animals seem to be able to detect things we can't. Like dogs can sense when a person will have seizures. It's bizarre.

[Matt]

It is strange, I think they can detect internal feelings and read us way better than we can.

[Blaze Zero-Three]

They show things like this on Animal Miracles (I think that's what the show is called) all the time.

[CDestroyer]

I saw this in the newspaper this morning, creepy.

[Squidude]

Hmm. Animals seem to be able to detect things we can't. Like dogs can sense when a person will have seizures. It's bizarre.
I've also heard of dogs smelling cancerous tumors.

[theryman]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/iz-sykik-ur-nxt.jpg

That is the actual cat, too. ICHC has everything...

[canadian patriot]

Oh my God... I need to get a mop to clean up all this bull####.

[Vince]

Oh my God... I need to get a mop to clean up all this bull####.

Right after you tell us how it's bull####.

[canadian patriot]

It's a ####ing cat, okay. It's not a freaking magical cat for God's sake. All it does is curl up to patients in the nursing home. All those old people are going to die if they are in the freaking nursing home hospital. I mean in a regular hospital, you have a chance. But a nursing home hospital...

[Drifterxkringo]

It's a ####ing cat, okay. It's not a freaking magical cat for God's sake. All it does is curl up to patients in the nursing home. All those old people are going to die if they are in the freaking nursing home hospital. I mean in a regular hospital, you have a chance. But a nursing home hospital...

Oh my god, I need a mop to clean up all this ignorance.

I guess this cat just happens to see stuff we can't, or maybe it's just wild occurences of coincendence one after the other. Point is, I wouldn't wanna see that cat.

[Lazlozania]

Things like this honestly creep me out. Like how cows can tell if a storm is coming, but weather-people cant?!?!? WTF!

[Solean]

Things like this honestly creep me out. Like how cows can tell if a storm is coming, but weather-people cant?!?!? WTF!

That's because the meteorolists on TV are all overpaid overglorified untrained people who love seeing people get wet in bikinis.

[Vagrant]

Things like this honestly creep me out. Like how cows can tell if a storm is coming, but weather-people cant?!?!? WTF!

All animals, except for humans (most of us anyways, I'll mention exceptions later), can detect changes in the weather. Cats and dogs tend to run hours before catastrophic events occur. Remember the 2004 tsunami? No dogs or cats died in the entire thing. They had all run away before it arrived. Some vulcanologists (volcano scientists) predict eruptions in likely areas by the number of missing pets in the areas. Animals disappear from an area where an earthquake will occur shortly. (One of my cats used to get really scared before a storm came in. She used to hide under this little crevice at the side on one of my couches. It was kinda funny and cute at the same time. Our newer cat could really care less, except he doesn't like getting wet.)

What causes this ability? We don't know. All our most advanced equipment can give us reasonable approximations (IE weather satellites and richter scales). But none of them can give us the kind of accuracy that animals seem to possess. And our instruments certainly don't give us any insight.

The only insight we have are the exceptions in humans -- Those that can sense weather changes. They are usually people with arthritis or some kind of joint damage. They can feel a dull aching pain on their bones when a storm is coming, that other people can't feel. But that still doesn't explain how animals can detect a tsunami, volcanic eruption, or earthquake beforehand. But it may suggest air pressure has something to do with it. Or it could possibly have something to do with infrasound (you can't hear it, but animals can, and it certainly could cause the pain that the arthritic feel)




Then animals can sense things in us that we can't. They can sense seizures coming minutes beforehand, and in this cats case, sense death (4 hours or less before death, which is an interesting time frame). Can they hear the human heart beating? That would be my best guess.

Animals are a lot more capable than we give them credit. Given the chance, they can learn a lot of the things we do. Like dialing 911 for help. Or trying to mimic human speech. Just by listening to the tone and volume of your voice they can tell whether they should trust you or not. You can say the stupidest things about them, but if you say it nicely, they'll like you. Or, reversely, you can yell really nice things at them, but the yelling will scare them away.



And no, there's nothing wrong with our meteorologists. They're giving reasonable approximations based on the satellite information and weather patterns. Granted, it's not 100% accurate, but when were you always right?

Of course, the question arises: If other animals can sense changes in weather and catastrophic events, why can't humans? The honest answer: I don't know. My best guess is that we lack the ability because of where we evolved: in Africa, where there are relatively few natural disasters, and the need for such a safety mechanism would be unnecessary.

[Triste..]

hmm so nursing home lots of people die correct? and i have a cat and hes lazy and lays on everything and everybody.. zomg cat predicts death :p please..

[zbooyjack]

Wow, that's like something right out of the Twilight Zone...

[Vagrant]

hmm so nursing home lots of people die correct? and i have a cat and hes lazy and lays on everything and everybody.. zomg cat predicts death :p please..

Bother reading the article at all?

The cat detests being in the room with most people. Only within a 4 hour timeframe of their death will he lie besides them. And he doesn't lie by anybody else.

[DarkReality]

It's a ####ing cat, okay. It's not a freaking magical cat for God's sake. All it does is curl up to patients in the nursing home. All those old people are going to die if they are in the freaking nursing home hospital. I mean in a regular hospital, you have a chance. But a nursing home hospital...

Wait wait! I have an idea! We should ignore empirical studies and observations over a longer period of time in favor of sceptical theories based solely on our intuition and lack of experience with these things! I mean, the chance that someone's going to die within 4 hours after the cat curls up next to them is sooooo high!

Unthinkable that a human body might give off signals that he's dying. I mean, only animals do that, right?

-_-

Go away. Now. Spare us with your ignorance. I don't know how clever you think you are, but you aren't.

I for one find it incredibly cute that the cat actually comes to people it doesn't know to spend the last moments with them. Sort of a last moment of joy for the people who can still take notice of the cat. My theories are that the cat is either Death in disguise (take that, mythology!), or he's actually a blood thirsty, carcass eating carnivore just trying to find a decent meal. >_>

[rpgfan]

Damn, it sucks to be human *goes to plastic sergion*

[Cool_on_the_Inside]

I've seen the cat on a news site and the newspapers(sp?). It's quite weird.

[Matt]

It's weird but it's logical.

[Joest]

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n39/Joest23/1185493961773.jpg

Sorry. It had to be done.

[Matt]

Lol, nice one.

[zippydaspinhead]

It seems kinda funny, but then again it makes sense the cat detests most people except those which are dying. I know several cats that don't like to be near you unless your reading a book or doing something similarly peaceful. Maybe this cat is that same concept but to a higher degree, I mean how many people dying in a nursing home are being very loud or disruptive?

[canadian patriot]

Go away. Now. Spare us with your ignorance. I don't know how clever you think you are, but you aren't.

You're a stupid douche.

I'll stay if I want. Now, please go the next time you barrage another's opinion.

This is the most unfriendly forum I have been to. If you say that somthing is stupid, they ask you to leave.

Well, asshat, you should leave.

[Joest]

You're a stupid douche.

I'll stay if I want. Now, please go the next time you barrage another's opinion.

This is the most unfriendly forum I have been to. If you say that somthing is stupid, they ask you to leave.

Well, asshat, you should leave.
No. We're nice to smart, articulate people who know what they're talking about.

You have no idea. Please leave. Happy? I said please. >_>

[DarkReality]

Stupid people aren't wanted here. Easy as that (oddly enough, I'm still welcome...). Considering you backed your opinion with nothing more than "this is bull####," I don't see how you said anything valid or worthwhile. You want to voice your opinion? Go right ahead. However, making baseless claims is just as much of an opinion as "the holocaust didn't happen!"

I leave adding one and one to you.

[rpgfan]

No. We're nice to smart, articulate people who know what they're talking about.

You have no idea. Please leave. Happy? I said please. >_>

Agreed. Xgen isn't the best forum to be in when your 5 and just started using a computer. Nobody likes Mr.Buzzkill who ruins everyone else's fun.
Do it some more, and it could be flagged as trolling. Just in case you dont know what that means:

Trolling v.(Trul-ing): The purposely posting of irritating content just to annoy other people.

True, trolling isn't as common in noobs as spamming, but you will get flagged for one or the other none the less.

Oh, forgot to tell you what spamming means.

Spamming v.(If you cant pronounce this your sad): Stupid Pointless Annoying Messeges... ing?

In conclusion: Go to runescape. They're used to noobs there.

[joe_schmo45]

This is the most unfriendly forum I have been to.

Wow, really?

[salsport]

if u think this forum is unfreindly, then u deffinitely never been to spammerland before

if the cat wanted to kill us, we'd all be dead by now

[rpgfan]

Imagine: You wake up in bed, the light of the morning sun blinds your night-adjusted eyes, and you are at ease, your body completely free of tention. As your eyes adjust to the light, you notice a figure outside your room. It comes closer and it resembles an animal-like shape. As it comes closer, you realize it is oscar the cat. You try to move away from the bed, you realize you cannot move. Oscar curls up in your bed, looks at you, and says "Your next" in a deep evil voice. You try to scream, but your mouth has been sewn shut. You cannot breathe, and suffocate. In your last moments alive, you hear Oscar laughing, and you see him walk away...

Freaky huh?

[Vagrant]

Imagine: You wake up in bed, the light of the morning sun blinds your night-adjusted eyes, and you are at ease, your body completely free of tention. As your eyes adjust to the light, you notice a figure outside your room. It comes closer and it resembles an animal-like shape. As it comes closer, you realize it is oscar the cat. You try to move away from the bed, you realize you cannot move. Oscar curls up in your bed, looks at you, and says "Your next" in a deep evil voice. You try to scream, but your mouth has been sewn shut. You cannot breathe, and suffocate. In your last moments alive, you hear Oscar laughing, and you see him walk away...

Freaky huh?

Not really, because these people know they will be dying, and their symptoms usually prevent them from being aware the cat is in the room.

[rpgfan]

That would suck though.

[zbooyjack]

This is the most unfriendly forum I have been to.

You've obviously never been to 4chan then.

[Navarri]

The world is weird, thats a fact that I have calmly accepted. My only opinion of this can is an intense urge to hug it that I get from every cat.They're just too damn cute...