Warning for cat lovers
Warning for cat lovers
Warning: your cat wanting to curl up with you and purr might not be a good sign
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I'm glad you're impressed. You don't hear that sentiment very often.
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Oh I get my time is close P P .
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I saw that article earlier today. The kitty is so fluffy and cute, too. Hard to believe he's the Angel of Death. 
I think there is something totally wrong with me, though. I mean, overall, it's kind of a heart-warming story, right? That Angel of Death Kitty would want to comfort someone in their final hours. But, I immediately get this mental image of the cat slinking into someone's room and this very elderly person trying to shoo him away.
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OK, so it's not all that funny typed out like this. But, in my mind, it was really, really funny.
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Which, come to think of it, scares me. 
I think there is something totally wrong with me, though. I mean, overall, it's kind of a heart-warming story, right? That Angel of Death Kitty would want to comfort someone in their final hours. But, I immediately get this mental image of the cat slinking into someone's room and this very elderly person trying to shoo him away.
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OK, so it's not all that funny typed out like this. But, in my mind, it was really, really funny.
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Which, come to think of it, scares me.
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How much do you think cute is? Your replies are cute too.
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Interesting: it might be a vindication of the very common superstition that cats will suck the breath of sleeping babies away, thus killing them. (Anyone seen the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp? The superstition plays an important role in the plot.) While there's no physical truth to the belief, there are many eyewitness accounts of cats found in the cribs of infants who turn out to be very ill, possibly from SIDS or "crib death," or some other fast-acting ailment. If cats can "smell" death, as the article says, then it would make sense that they'd do so both for the very old and the very young.
There could be a perfectly good biological explanation for this ability. One forensic pathologist I found quoted on the net commented:
Of course people have also disappeared from lifeboats and parties stranded in the wilderness, too (reference the lost Franklin arctic expedition, cut-up pieces of which were eventually found inside cooking pots).
There could be a perfectly good biological explanation for this ability. One forensic pathologist I found quoted on the net commented:
That's a show-biz quote: my Ollie just likes a warm, soft place to sleep. But it is true that pets are carnivores, and there have been cases of neglected oldsters who have literally disappeared in a house of loving but eventually famished pets after (from what anyone can surmise) dying of natural causes."Sometimes, when an individual living alone dies unexpectedly, several days may pass before anyone takes notice. Some of these individuals may own a dog or a cat, which will go unfed. In my experience, a dog may go for several days before finally resorting to eating the owner's body. A cat, on the other hand, will only wait a day or two. Just goes to show you which is more loyal. So, the next time you're falling asleep on the couch with the football game on, take a look at your cat. He's not watching you because he's enamored of you; he's checking to see if your chest is still moving."
Of course people have also disappeared from lifeboats and parties stranded in the wilderness, too (reference the lost Franklin arctic expedition, cut-up pieces of which were eventually found inside cooking pots).
