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The End Is Near: Hospice Cat Senses Death

Oscar picks patients just about to die with uncanny accuracy

(Newser) - An upscale nursing home in Rhode Island is home to a cat that can sense impending death, the Boston Globe reports. Oscar, whose domain is the dementia ward, shows little interest in patients who are ill but not dying. But when he curls up in a bed, the patient usually...

Neutering Bill Ruffles Feathers
Neutering Bill Ruffles Feathers

Neutering Bill Ruffles Feathers

Calif. legislation would require owners to 'fix' cats and dogs

(Newser) - Legislation that would require Californians to "fix" their cats and dogs has captured the state's attention, inspiring more more controversy than any other measure this year, including an assisted-suicide bill. TV legend Bob Barker backs the spay/neuter bill, but groups like the American Kennel Club don't want the state...

Hemingway Cats Dodge Bullet
Hemingway Cats Dodge Bullet

Hemingway Cats Dodge Bullet

Literary felines evade Key West eviction order

(Newser) - The six-toed cats that make Ernest Hemingway's Key West home a magnet for lovers of both literature and animals can stay right where they are, the city says. The feds have targeted the literary lions, saying they're "on exhibit," but the local government passed an ordinance last week...

The Cat Did Not Walk by Himself
The Cat Did Not Walk by Himself

The Cat Did Not Walk by Himself

(Newser) - Unlike most animals who were domesticated by man, cats, you cat owners will not be surprised to learn, domesticated themselves.  A study published in Science concludes that some 12,000 years ago cats, attracted by mice, who were themselves attracted by grain which man had just figured out how...

House Cat Hisstory Traced to 5 Mideast Matriarchs

Felines chose domestic life 10,000 years ago

(Newser) - The origin of 600 million house cats has been traced to five matriarchal lines in the Mideast, where the first wildcats moved close to families some 10,000 years ago and earned their keep eating vermin,  the New York Times reports. House cats share striking DNA similarities with wildcats...

EU Set to Ban Cat and Dog Fur
EU Set to Ban Cat and Dog Fur

EU Set to Ban Cat and Dog Fur

Pet fur is used in everything from coats to stuffed toys

(Newser) - The EU is about to ban cat and dog fur imports, in a bid to stop the trade in pet pelts in China, where the way the animals are slaughtered is called "horrific." The fur is used as lining in boots and gloves, in stuffed toys, and in...

Is Your Cat Making You Neurotic?
Is Your Cat Making You Neurotic?

Is Your Cat Making You Neurotic?

(Newser) - A parasite that reproduces in cats, previously linked to schizophrenia in infected humans, has now, bizarrely, been implicated in mass personality changes in geographic areas where incidence of infection is high. A U.S. Geological Survey study of 39 countries shows that high infection rates of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite...

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