Here’s that death cat we were talking about this morning.

His name is Oscar, and was first noticed in 2007 at a Rhode Island nursing home where he seemed to be curling up next to people who were just about to die.

Three years later, Oscar is part of a new book that says he’s has proven itself in 50 cases to date.

In his book, Dr. David Dosa, a geriatrician at Brown University, has said that five years of records showed Oscar, the cat, rarely erring, sometimes proving medical staff at the nursing home wrong in their predictions over which patients were close to death.

The five-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit.  Woah nellie! I see a horror movie in the making.

Here’s what the cat does…it spends its days pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time except with those patients with just hours to live.  Essentially the cat does rounds, and if you’re his next stop…beware.

So, what if Oscar does become the subject of a horror movie.  That’s got me thinking about what that movie’s tag line might be:

• – Oscar, you don’t want his cat scan.
• – He’s got nine lives, but he wants yours.
• – Cat nip? It’s more like your final cat nap.
• – You’ll make a fe-line for the grave.
• – Ask not for whom the purrrrr tolls, it tolls for thee.

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