Oscar the cat can smell death.
A CAT that detects when nursing home patients have just hours to live has accurately predicted up to 50 deaths.
Oscar curls up next to dying patients and scratches at their door if staff try to stop him from being near them.
He spends his days pacing from room to room at the nursing home where he lives and refuses to spend any time with the elderly residents unless they are close to death.
The unsociable cat, now five, was adopted as a kitten at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, Rhode Island.
