http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7072501753.html

Freaky, yet cool.

Wow.

And here I thought it was a black dog that was the harbinger of death.

I just read about this too. I don't know why, but it makes me very sad.

I would have a odd compulsion to kick that cat if it came into my room.

The cat is probably running in there and unplugging their life support.

Predicting... right...

You're thinking of his brother, Skippy, the Death-Precipitating Cat.

This has been making the rounds of the national media.

I've always believed cats have some intuition, cunning, or some sense of things that are beyond human sensing. We have intelligence and imagination going for us, but I remember a cat of mine was good at knowing when we were depressed and needed comforting in my family.

So I can actually see a cat wanting to provide some comfort or to perform a last rites ritual.

Four words: pheromones, vitals, dodgy statistics.

Even if the cat can tell when someone's about to bite the dust, it's not necessarily supernatural.

And again, the cat "predicted" the death of 25 people. How many people did he curl up against who didn't die? Presumably, he makes the rounds every day for one year, that's 25 deaths out of roughly 300 people visited. Unusually high, but hey, maybe the nursing home just has a high mortality rate.

Or, maybe the cat is the causa mortis.

I don't think anyone's seriously suggesting it's supernatural - just really interesting.

Psh. The supernatural is simply something that science doesn't yet have a firm grasp on. Nature itself, at one time, was considered supernatural, after all.

It could just be, like the article said, that he notices the change in a person that signals they are about to pass on. It's not surprising in my minds eye, that he's able to "predict" their deaths. Animals are able to sense those sort of things, like when a storm is coming and so on and so forth.