Is this cat the angel of death?

This may not be about attracting or acquiring, but it's a news item sweeping across the country today and it happens to have originated right here in my home state of RI. It seems there's a cat at a Providence nursing home that has predicted the death of 25 of its patients. I'm sure you've probably seen the story on the news by now but I find it fascinating so I decided to pose the question of whether or not this cat has some kind of supernatural ability. According to the doctors at the nursing home where Oscar the cat lives, he lies in bed with the patients for the last two hours of their lives. Always the last two hours. He knows they're going to die. But just how he knows is up for debate. The doctors think that he must smell the chemicals that the body produces right before they die. But there are six cats living in the home. None of them know. There have been stories about dogs being able to sniff out cancer, but why only a few?

To me it seems like there is more going on here. Lately I've been doing a little reading about angels and from what I've read, they do not take on the form of people or animals. But there are people who swear that angels do make themselves seen in the form of animals or people. There are also token animals that, according to some people, namely native Americans, show up in our lives to guide us. In the spring there was a hawk that sat in the tree above my head every morning while I waited for my son to get on the school bus. It stayed there for about two weeks and then I never saw it again. My energy healer told me about token animals and said it was there to give me a message. Though, I never figured out what that message was. When I was younger, I remember I had a cat that would always lie with me whenever I was sick. And as much as I adore animals, I didn't like my dog or my cat near me when I felt sick. I never figured out why that was. Then again, when I'm sick I don't really like to be around anyone. It just seems animals do have a sixth sense about people. Like whenever I'm upset, my bulldog follows me around and looks at me. That look always makes me laugh even when I'm down. Guess that's why he's my Karmic Bulldog. Check out my Karmic Bulldog store at http://cafepress.com/karmicbulldog and send a smile to someone you care about.

Anyway, as I'm writing this there is another story on my local news about Oscar the cat. A doctor from the New England Journal of Medicine is studying the cat and thinks it just instinctively knows when people are going to die and wants to comfort them. But maybe it is more than that. Maybe the cat is an angel of death and his job here is to give comfort to people in their last hours on earth. Only the cat knows for sure.

Till next time, be prepared for the best. And remember to always be kind to animals, they know a lot more than we give them credit for.