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Can you imagine being the person that the cat goes and sits next to... haha.

Yeah, read about that on Digg this morning.

Then it was on the news this evening.

Now it's on Massassi tonight. Oh well, furries!

Oh, you'd be stupid to disbelieve animal's abilities to sense pain and suffering. Even last night, my dog knew I was in a lot of pain and couldn't sleep. He always lays right next to my face and gives my kisses when he knows I'm in a lot of pain. He also licks on my knees and hips when he knows they hurt. You have to realize that I show little to no outward signs when I have painful nights. I sleep in the same angles, and don't move much, as it hurts.

My cat wouldn't leave my mother's wrist alone when she sprained it, even though there was no cast or wrap around it, so nothing had outwardly changed.

My Dog always sniffs at my ears when I have ear infections. The cat goes crazy if someone's falls and hurts themselves.

Animals most certainly have a sense of damage and pain. I'm hardly skeptical.

I just think it would be hilarious to see the cat go jump up on someone's bed and they be like "wtf cat it's not my time", and keep trying to push it away.

Yeah, dogs and cats especially show a lot of empathy towards humans. No doubt because they have been bred so closely to us for thousands of years.

My mom just told me a story about a hospice cat that went and wouldn't stop bugging my grandma just before she died. Then the cat wouldn't stop meowing after she died, despite nothing but my grandmother's pule stopping being the change. Makes you wonder what it is that they "figure out."

Yes... It could be quite useful. The cat seemed to know even more accurately than the doctors when the patient would die. It's kind of uncanny. Animals can be extreemly empathetic.

Alternate Theory: The cat is a serial killer.

Funny, this was on the local news tonight as well.

Is this cat on to something?

They really should try and figure out what sense(s) the cat is using to detect the deaths... could be useful.

And don't forget that a lot of people who have seizures have dogs trained in warning people a seizure is coming before it actually hits.

Yeah, this was in my paper yesterday. Weird indeed.

Maybe its just vibes? I'm a nurse in a hospital, and on at least two occasions in the past six months, I have been minding my own business letting my patients sleep (I work nights), when I have suddenly been struck by an overwhelming need to check on a specific person, one who was deteriorating, and one who had just passed away.