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Cat Hero: Hugo

Hugo smelled smoke and came to the rescue. The catch: It wasn’t even his home!

just as life is about to leave…

this story has always fascinated me…


EXCERPT:

OSCAR the cat makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave.

A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left. Oscar’s purr, when keeping close company with the dying, is so intense it is almost a low rumble.

“He’s a cat with an uncanny instinct for death,” said David Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. “He attends deaths. He’s pretty insistent on it.”

via www.smh.com.au