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Hello people of the Tumblr world. Name's Emma. Music is my life. I'm from a place in the world called Canada. My blog is my life in pictures and words. Enjoy the ride.
gly9h-the-hellhound: pillory: 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. After about six months, the staff noticed that Oscar, just like the doctors and nurses, would make his own rounds. Oscar would sniff and observe patients, then curl up to sleep with certain ones. The patients he would sleep with often died within several hours of his arrival. One of the first cases involved a patient who had a blood clot in her leg that was ice cold at the time. Oscar wrapped his body around her leg and stayed until the woman died.In another instance, the doctor had made a determination of impending death based on the patient’s condition, while Oscar simply walked away, causing the doctor to believe that Oscar’s streak (12 at the time) had ended. However, it would be later discovered that the doctor’s prognosis was simply 10 hours too early: Oscar later visited the patient, who died two hours later. Oscar’s accuracy led the staff to institute a new and unusual protocol: once he is discovered sleeping with a patient, staff will call family members to notify them of the patient’s (expected) impending death. Most of the time the patient’s family has no issue with Oscar being present at the time of death. On those occasions when he is removed from the room at the family’s request, he is known to pace back and forth in front of the door and meow in protest. When present, Oscar will stay by the patient until they die, then after death will quietly leave the room. i find this very interesting as this behavior seems common in many cats that reside in mental and nursing homes. Often sharing the bed of the soon to be deceased. In the ancient world cats were revered by many cultures, most famously Ancient Egypt, as guardians of the underworld, keepers of the gate of death, and sometimes even harbingers of death itself. This makes me wonder whether this behavior was observed during ancient times as well and perhaps prompted this belief and many practices surrounding it. 
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bambali: *text will not show up so don’t delete it* so i really liked fairhy’s idea of her url project so i asked her if i could do the same! here’s what it’s all about: I (bambali) will be going to lots of interesting places this summer (such as Paris, a concert, the beach, amusement parks, camping, malls, etc.) so what i will be doing is writing down everyone’s url who reblogs this post and once i have the urls, i will place them somewhere i go! yours could be placed on the Eiffel Tower, a store in a mall or downtown Toronto, a bathroom, ANYWHERE!  once i place your URL somewhere, i will message you and send you a picture of where it has been placed :) if someone finds your URL, they should definitely message you! (they will know to do so, i’ll write it on the paper) so reblog this post if you want to make my summer fabulous! *NOTE: I’ll probably start placing the URLs once this gets a good amount of notes and im done typing! so probably end of june which is when exams are done!* OH AND PLEASE BE FOLLOWING ME :)
 
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