The story of the cat takes the bad man to heaven

A grandson of Mrs. K asked her mother: 'What is the cat doing here?'. The mother, trying to hold back her tears, told the boy: 'It is here to help you to heaven.'

Cat Oscar spends most of the day in wandering in Steere health center and heating the sun.Photo: wordpress.com.

David Dosa is a professor at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. In addition, he worked at Steere Medical Center - a place to care for and treat people with severe dementia - in the same city. Oscar is one of six cats raised at Steere center. During the first time Dosa met Oscar, the professor was bitten by the cat.

'When I first met Oscar, he didn't want to do anything to anyone. Animals spend most of their time hiding from people or finding a quiet place to enjoy the sun . '

Looks like Oscar doesn't want to communicate with people. In fact it is saving energy for a much more important job: herald the death of patients. This talent has made Oscar famous all over the world. Professor Dosa described the animal's unusual behavior in an article in Medicine magazine.

Professor David Dosa and Oscar cat.Photo: uvamagazine.com .

Mrs. K is lying still in bed. This patient breathes steadily but is not deep. Suddenly Oscar jumped on her bed and smelled the air. It rotated in a circle twice before lying next to Mrs. K.

A nurse walked into the room and checked her health. She stopped when she saw Oscar. With a worried face, the nurse took the patient monitoring slip and called.

Only within half an hour her relatives appeared. Oscar did not budge. Instead, it squeaked and gently rubbed its head against the patient's body. A grandson of Mrs. K asked her mother: 'What is the cat doing here?'. The mother, trying to hold back her tears, told the boy: 'It is here to help you to heaven.'

30 minutes later Mrs. K took her last breath. Oscar sat up, looked around, and quietly left the room. It went so fast and light that K's relatives didn't know.

Dosa's article makes Oscar cats the subject of international media attention. It even has a separate page on Wikipedia. Oscar's stories are gathered in a book entitled 'Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat'. The book will be published in February. The main author of the book is David Dosa - Brown University's professor of medicine and public health. The 37-year-old professor hopes that when reading stories about Oscar, readers will also learn more about memory decline syndrome and caring for patients at the end of life.

Now Oscar still lives on the 3rd floor of Steere Medical Center. The third floor is a place for older people with Alzheimer's disease and many other types of memory impairments.

Whether readers of the Oscar book believe the cat's strange ability, its presence next to those who are about to die is still a priceless gift. It is regarded as a peace of mind for patients who face the most difficult moments in their lives.

A woman named Donna Richards told Professor Dosa that she felt guilty for leaving her mother in the medical center and not visiting regularly. But when taking care of her mother, Richards felt sorry for her son for not taking him to the pool to practice swimming.

Richards kept going to Steere Medical Center when she knew she was about to die. But after three days, a nurse convinced her to go home to rest. Despite hesitation, Richards agreed. A moment later her mother died.

But the old female patient was not alone when she was about to leave the world, because Oscar lay beside her.