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It is likely both. The link you provided is not a study. How many times did the cat jump up on the bed of a non-dying patient? How often on the beds of any rand

It is likely both. The link you provided is not a study. How many times did the cat jump up on the bed of a non-dying patient? How often on the beds of any random patient, making his jumps on the dying patients' beds simply part of the noise? Without a real study, we can't attribute superpowers to a cat.

WhompingWindows 6y ago
You think it's a superpower that an animal with an extremely sensitive nose can smell that a biological organism is emitting smells of decay and death? Keep in mind, death is a process and these are advanced dementia patients, they DO have a smell as I have volunteered in the building and met many of the patients (before COVID). This is not new to science, there are human individuals world-wide who can smell diseases, for instance the Scottish woman who a physician proved could smell Parkinson's on testing her sniffing of numerous T-shirts. Biological processes can emit smells, it's really not a superpower. By the way, in medicine, you don't need to do a randomized controlled trial to be considered a "real study". Do you think the study that found out that HIV was killing gay men in San Fransisco, a case-series study without any trial or randomization, was not a "real study"? Case series and observations are valid real studies, though not gold standards for establishing broad truths. If you get 20 Oscars and 20 normal cats, feel free to do the RCT, or you can take a moment and do some simple Googling before going full-on skpetic on a situation you don't know anything about.