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Oscar (therapy cat)
Oscar (born 2005) is a therapy cat living in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He came to public attention in July 2007 when he was featured in an article by David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, in the ''New England Journal of Medicine''. According to Dosa, Oscar appears able to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients. Explanations for this ability include the lack of movement in such patients, or that the cat can smell ketones, the biochemicals released by dying cells.〔Leonard, Tom. (Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', February 1, 2010.〕
Oscar became the subject of a book by Dosa in 2010, ''Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat''.〔
== Background ==
Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor end-stage dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The 41-bed unit treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of life and are generally unaware of their surroundings.
Oscar was one of six cats adopted by Steere House, which bills itself as a "pet friendly" facility (a variety of pets visit and reside at the facility),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Pet therapy )〕 after the death of Steere House's original therapy pet Henry (named for benefactor Henry J. Steere).
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