<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of Huffington Post at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/cat-diagnoses-owners-life-breast-cancer_n_1332466.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/cat-diagnoses-owners-life-breast-cancer_n_1332466.html</a><div><div> </div><div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><h1 class="title-news" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font: normal normal bold 32px/36px Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">Cat Detects Owner's Breast Cancer Before Doctors, Saving Her Life</h1><div>Call it a sixth sense, a special connection, or just plain mystery. But whatever gift cats and dogs have that allows them to detect health conditions in their owners sure has been saving a lot of lives.</div><div><br></div><div>Wendy Humphreys, a mother of two from Britain, found out first-hand how powerful that gift can be when her cat Fidge sniffed out a potentially fatal health condition that even doctors hadn't detected, the Daily Mail reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Bewildered at first, Humphreys was compelled to visit a physician after the 10-month-old cat began jumping on her breast and continued to do so for weeks on end.</div><div><br></div><div>What doctors found astounded Humphreys: She had a malignant tumor in her breast about the size of a pea that could have metastasized if it hadn't been discovered early. She is now scheduled to undergo chemotherapy and credits Fidge with saving her life, according to the paper.</div><div><br></div><div>Studies have shown that dogs, too, can pick up on illnesses and physical ailments by detecting acute changes in people's smell. In a 2011 study, researchers in Japan conducted trials to see how well a dog could identify people with colorectal cancer. The dog had a 98 percent accuracy rate, NPR reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes, however, animals' aptitude for detecting changes in humans defies scientific explanation. In 2006, a cat named Oscar confounded experts by "predicting" the deaths of a number of residents at a Rhode Island nursing home. Oscar would begin hanging around people days before they passed away, according to CBS News.</div><div><br></div><div>"Oscar is a normal cat with an extra-normal sense for death," Dr. Joan M. Teno, professor of community health at Brown and associate medical director of Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island, told the Boston Globe. "As a scientist, I want to offer a biological explanation for this," she said. "But I can't."</div><div><br></div><img src="cid:F659353F-2249-4FEF-BB34-FF10C569AD51" alt="image.jpeg" id="F659353F-2249-4FEF-BB34-FF10C569AD51" width="260" height="190" apple-original-width="260" apple-original-height="190"><div><br></div><div>------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>