Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Touched by a Felis silvestris
With nothing better to do, MSRNC brings us a report on a cat with an uncanny ability to tell when terminally ill patients are about to die.
This is Oscar, the resident cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, RI. Normally, he’s your stereotypical aloof, uncaring cat. However, whenever he senses that a person is about to die, he curls up on their bed and goes to sleep. The person he “picks” winds up dead a few hours later. He’s so accurate that the staff at the facility has taken to notifying the next-of-kin when he’s seen hanging around a patient.
I don’t know about you, but when it finally comes to be my time to die, I can’t think of a better way to go out than with a cat gently purring in my arms. In a way, Oscar’s role seems to be much like that of the character Andrew in Touched by an Angel (played by John Dye - hence the title of this post). Unfortunately, given the current rise in “Christians” trying to take us back to the 12th century, coupled with the fact that there’s already at least one family that was disturbed by Oscar’s…”ability”… I can’t help but worry that at some point someone will try to do this to him:
Teen California Girls Charged With Animal Cruelty as Burned Cat Clings to Life
Thursday, July 19, 2007
COTATI, Calif. — A 3-month-old cat is clinging to life at a Sonoma County animal hospital after having been set on fire by two teenage girls who now face charges of animal cruelty.
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The cat, one of several feral felines trapped for spaying and neutering, was in a cage outside an apartment in Santa Rosa when two 15-year-old girls allegedly poured flammable liquid on the animal and set it on fire last month.
An 11-year-old boy and his friend saw the smoke and heard the cat, then eight weeks old, shrieking while the girls laughed. The girls, whose names have not been released, were charged with cruelty to animals in Sonoma County Juvenile Court last week.
There is a special place reserved in Hell for those who do harm to animals, especially those who do harm to cats.
