Friday, July 5, 2013

Cats A-Z: O (Oscar)

"Oscar (Death Cat)" 
Woodcut
6" x 8" (paper) 4" x 3" (image) 
Oil-based inks on white Subi paper 
Artist's Proof 

This is the new entry for "O": Oscar, known also as the "Death Cat" for his ability to predict when residents at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center were going to die. He was a resident therapy cat who would stay with patients who died hours later. It is suspected that the key to Oscar's ability to know patients were dying is his smelling ketones, or chemicals which are released by dying cells. 

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