Man, this just adds to the weird things that animals know about that humans don’t.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959718/
Long story short is that a cat that lives in a nursing home has a 100% success rate of predicting when a person will die. Well, that’s what the article says anyways.
I read somewhere once that some dogs can smell cancer…
I thought you were talking about our own Kittycat here on ST!! 
i thought this was going to be because of my pro-smoking stance. lol. if that cat came near me i’d panic!
I know. I worded the title specifically to confuse people 
I’m not surprised. My grandfather’s dog ran away the night before he died, my father never saw that dog again.
My cat was a big comfort to me last year when I found out a close friend died in an accident. He’s quite the rascal but after I put down the phone he just curled up next to me and stayed with me while I cried.
What they don’t realize is the cat is actually killing them himself and then rubbing it in the human’s faces by taunting them.
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That’s what I’ve been thinking! I think the cat has some contagious disease that is killing the elderly folks it cuddles up to.
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they train them to smell cancer
Is that like a CAT scan??
I read somewhere once that some dogs can smell cancer…
In the community I work in there are 2 dogs that are trained to be seizure-dogs. They are paired with 2 epileptic patients and begin to bark a certain way when their owners are about to have a seizure, generally about 2 minutes before. This is often enough time for the seizure patient to get him/herself to a safe place. Most of the time seizure patients aren’t harmed by the seizing activity so much as the fall risk or things to hit themselves on. Also, family members or friends who know what is going on can prepare others for the seizure if this is going to happen in a public place. It is really amazing. I think the dogs can sense the electrical activity in the brain or something. Either that or there is some sort of hormone that is secreted that the dog can recognize. I don’t really know how they can do it, but I have been told there are only certain dogs that can be trained to do it, and it is not breed specific.
Bernie
I have a rhodesian ridgeback mix named Toby and I brought him with me last year when I went to visit my parents. At the time my mother had just been diagnosed with sinus cancer. Anyway, all Toby wanted to was smell the area around my mothers nose, after he got done sniffing the area he would start to whine. Its a little over a year later and I am at my parents now with Toby and one of the first things he did was sniff the area where my mom had cancer. She has been diagnosed as being cancer free by the doctors and Toby seems to agree because he has only sniffed that area that one time.