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Can animals detect cancer in humans?

The Grim Kitty has a feeling, a smell, maybe the smell of death. Animals have a keen smell as we all know and our bodies emit different chemicals when we are ailing. Sometimes human can smell it. There was a story that Sharon Osbourn's (Ozzy's wife) daughter told of her mother. She said she could smell the cancer on her mother, likely not knowing what it was until she was diagnosed with breast cancer. An odd claim for sure but is it possible?

I truly believe that cats have a psychic ability, to me it's been proven first hand by a Siamese I had. It's been said that cats can tell when their owner/companion is coming home before they get there. In my kitchen I have an auto on motion detecting light that stays on for five minutes then turns off. I did an experiment one day and timed my cat who was always sitting in the kitchen window which faces the driveway, she was always in that window to watch me pull up when I came home. I decided to test the theory and called my wife 10 minutes before I got home and asked her to not go into the kitchen but instead go into the back room and see if the cat goes into the kitchen window. It was dark at the time, two minutes before I got home she called and said the kitchen light had been tripped on by the cat, when I pulled up there she was perched in the window watching me pull up.

Now I don't believe the old wives tales of a dog barking in a certain cadence or a cat cleaning itself in a certain fashion as being some sort of sign, but I do believe with their keen insight and smell that it is possible for animals to sniff things out. There may be medical uses of animals in the future. Dogs can be trained to smell drugs and pin point exactly where something is in a sampling of bags, I see no reason they could not be trained to pin point things in our bodies. Or for matter for a cat to feel or smell death.

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