The job of therapy cats is to be with, play, and provide warmth at the end of life for patients. However, Oscar is not like other feline friends. As commented by the staff at Steele House: “Oscar is not a friendly cat, he often avoids, sometimes hisses at people when he wants to be alone. .” When he was 6 months old, Oscar began to appear strange powers. Like a messenger of bad news, Oscar has the ability to clearly determine who is about to be picked up by death. Usually about two days before a patient’s death, Oscar would leave his preferred locations and walk through the building’s hallways, visiting individual patients but never staying long. Dr. Dosa said: “ When someone is not ready to die, the cat will walk away. It won’t be in their room until the day they die. Sometimes it will be in the patient’s room up to 4 hours in advance. But usually it only appears about 2 hours before they take their last breath .” Oscar’s way of signaling was to jump into bed, lying next to a patient who was too weak to ward off it. Soon after, the patient takes his last breath. Up to now, more than 100 cases have been correctly predicted by Oscar, helping Oscar become a famous “cat of death” in the US media from 2007 to 2010. And there was only one death without Oscar’s presence. Not because the cat was unpredictable or inattentive, but because a relative of the patient asked to have the cat removed from the hospital bed. However, even when taken out, Oscar still had strange reactions. The cat scratched the front door, meowing. Apparently he wanted to stay in his room and wasn’t happy about being kicked out. Despite the possibility of death, Oscar was not hated at all. In contrast, staff at Steele House often closely observe the cat’s movements to contact the patient’s family soon. Many people were able to meet their loved ones at the last minute. Most of them are grateful to Oscar. Some even praised Oscar’s actions, saying that the cat was trying to get close to and bring warmth to the patients in the moment before saying goodbye to the world. At Steere House, there are currently 25 letters from the patient’s family to thank the cat. Some experts put forward scientific theories to explain this phenomenon. According to them, it is likely that Oscar’s action was simply to alert nurses and medical staff to the patient’s current condition. For example, with a dying person, the frequency of activities and movements in the room will be more (the reason is that medical staff often have to pay attention and follow up). Oscar may very often go to the bedside of a sick person, simply because he senses something unusual. In the animal kingdom, many species have the ability to sense and respond to signals that are difficult to detect around. In the case of Oscar, if the cat keeps wandering around the rooms, the possibility of contact with many people, including the dying patient is quite high and as such, this is just coincidental, accidental. . However, many people disagree with this interpretation. Previously, there was an interesting study that showed that dogs are animals that can detect cancer and some other diseases, although the success rate is not high. Although they do not have extrasensory abilities, instead, their super-sensitive nose helps detect subtle signs of disease that appear during the body’s response to disease. Like dogs, Oscar also has the same ability to smell. The chemicals secreted by the body when dying will trigger a response, but it is not obvious because countless other mixed odors in the hospital such as flowers, food, medicine, cleaning solutions, etc. have masked the “smell” the scent of death”. Until now, the story of the cat Oscar has not been clearly explained by science, so many people still believe that this cat really has the ability to “foretell” about death.

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The ancient Egyptians turned countless cats into mummies, and even built the world’s first “pet cemetery”. These cemeteries have a history of nearly 2000 years, with most of the cats buried there wearing iron and bead necklaces. So why did cats have such a high status in ancient Egypt? The ancient Greek historian Herodotus has even recorded that the ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows to show respect when their cats died. In 2018, the Smithsonian Asian Art Museum in Washington, DC, USA hosted an exhibition on the importance of cats in ancient Egypt. Many exhibitions have revealed to everyone the origin of this veneration – ancient Egyptians believed that gods and rulers should have cat-like qualities. Specifically, the ancient Egyptians believed that cats had some ideal personalities: on the one hand, they would love, nurture their children and be very loyal; on the other hand, they can also be very aggressive, independent, and assertive. To the ancient Egyptians, these traits made cats seem like a special animal and deserved attention, which may explain why they built so many statues involving cats. Sphinx (sphinx) is a statue next to Kafra Pyramid, 73 meters long and looks like the head of a man and the body of a lion. This is possibly the most famous statue in ancient Egypt, although historians do not know why the ancient Egyptians made this giant statue. Similarly, Sakhmet, the goddess of war and powerful medicine in Egyptian mythology, is also depicted as a female lion or a lion-headed girl in a blood-red dress. She is also considered a protector, especially at dawn and dusk. Another goddess, Bastet, is often depicted as a lion or a cat. The ancient Egyptians believed that the cat was their divine relic. She used to be the goddess of war in Lower Egypt, due to her resemblance to the lion goddess Sekhmet in Upper Egypt, she gradually changed from the god of war to the guardian of the family, symbolizing warmth and family fun. The ancient Egyptians were particularly fond of cats, possibly because they were extremely capable of hunting, especially rats and snakes. Researchers at University College London say that ancient Egyptians even named their children after cats or gave them names meaning cats – for example naming girls “Mitt. “(means cat). It is not clear when cats began to be domesticated in Egypt, but archaeologists have uncovered some ancient graves of cats and kittens dating back to 3800 BC. However, many studies have shown that this obsession is not limited to love. There is archaeological evidence that the ancient Egyptians’ passion for cats had a more cruel side. Between 700 BC and 300 AD, ancient Egypt probably formed a cat industry, first breeding large numbers of kittens, then killing them and making mummies for burial. with human mummies. In a study published in Scientific Reports in 2020, scientists performed micro-CT x-rays of animal mummies in ancient Egypt, including cat mummies. Through the scan, the researchers were able to understand the cat’s bone structure in detail and the materials used in its mummification process. When the researchers received the scans, the cat used for the mummification was in much smaller condition than expected. “It was a very young cat, but we didn’t realize that prior to scanning because most of the mummies (about 50%) were made of cloth,” study author at Swansea University, Wang UK, said Professor Richard Johnston. “When we saw it on the screen, we realized it was still very small when it died” – at less than 5 months old, the cat’s neck It was artificially broken. Mary-Ann Pools Wegner, associate professor of Egyptian archeology at the University of Toronto in Canada, said that many animal mummies were actually used as sacrifices to ancient Egyptian gods. This is a way to quench your anger or ask the gods for help in addition to a verbal prayer. But until now, we still don’t know why the ancient Egyptians wanted to buy cats for mummies during funerals.

The prairie lynx is a wild cat that is distributed in Africa and possesses the longest legs, of any cat with similar body size. Grass lynx has the scientific name Leptailurus serval. This wild cat species distributed in Africa, was first described in 1776. Grass lynx has a heat cycle that lasts up to four days, and is usually at the time when kittens will be born just before the peak breeding period of local rodent populations. They can be born many litters a year, but usually only if the previous litter dies shortly after birth. The pregnancy cycle lasts 66-77 days and usually produces two kittens, although sometimes more. Kittens are born in dense vegetation or a cave left by a piggy bank. Otherwise they can give birth under a shrub. Grassland lynx has a slender body, medium size, weight from 9kg – 18kg. Grassland lynx can travel 3–4 km per night in search of food. The long legs (longest of all cats of the same body size) show their adaptations to the steppe lifestyle, helping them reach a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour, and large ears with hearing. Very good at allowing them to detect prey, even in the ground. They can jump 2–3 m high to catch birds in flight and can jump up to 3.6 m. They are effective predators with a success rate of up to 50%. Grass lynx has a small head, large ears, an outer coat colored from golden to dark yellow with black spots and stripes, and a short tail with black tops. In particular, the prairie lynx has the longest legs of any cat with similar body size. It is the long legs that help the grass lynx achieve a maximum speed of 80km / h while the large ears allow them to detect prey even in the ground. Grass lynx usually hunts rodents, they also feed on birds, hares, hyrax guinea pigs, reptiles, insects, fish and frogs. Kittens weigh about 250 g at birth, and have not opened their eyes at first, with gray fur. They open their eyes between 9 and 13 days old, and start eating solid foods after about a month. By about six months, they have fangs and begin to learn to hunt, and will leave their mother by about 12 months. They reach maturity between 12 and 25 months of age. Their average lifespan is about 10 years in the wild, and up to over 20 years in captivity. Grass lynx confronted with leopard Clashes between grass lynx and cheetahs caught on the lens of Gavin Newfield, visitors to the Pilanesberg nature reserve, South Africa, Latest Sightings on February 16 reported. While Newfield was engrossed in watching a wildebeest, his girlfriend spotted a lynx nearby and showed it to him. It seems to be in conflict with the cheetahs hunting about the territory. “Four cheetahs, a grassy wildcat and a wild gazelle are the best sight I’ve ever seen,” says Newfield. Before that, he and his girlfriend had never seen a grass lynx. In the video, the grass lynx, despite its smaller size, still tries to confront the leopard. It and the same leopard came out in the middle of the fighting street, while the rest of the leopard was located close by. “In the end, the grass lynx ran away from the territorial battle. Upon seeing the lynx’s action, the leopard also rushed in that direction. Both disappeared from sight. Meanwhile, the 3 predators remained. chasing the wildebeest again, causing the animal to run away, “Newfield said. Grass lynx (Leptailurus serval) is native to Africa. They are skilled hunters, often targeted at rodents, reptiles, birds, frogs, and insects. Grassland lynx rarely has to eat scavengers. They can jump high to catch prey or catch fish swimming in the water. Video of a prairie lynx confronting leopard: