CAT
Who saves
HUMAN LIFE
Quite often repeated stories about the foresight of cats,
through which people can avoid accidents. We have heard several
such stories, but none of them can not be compared with history
the cat Ricky. Lola Del Costa and her husband, Ernesto, an
experienced pilot, decided to spend their honeymoon in Spain.
After the wedding breakfast they went out of Milan's airport on
his personal plane. The plane was thoroughly prepared, primed
and tanks fuel was enough for a four-hour flight. But
when to landing was only thirty minutes, and under them all
it was still the Mediterranean Sea, the crash occurred.
Initially, blew strong head-wind, which slowed down the
machine, and it reduced the supply of fuel to catastrophically
low level. Then the engine suddenly stopped, and they were
forced to sit on the water. "We were thrown on the windshield,
and Ernesto hurt his throat, - Lola says - but he remained calm
and told me to jumped into the sea, and then followed me. "
They sailed for several hours, Ernesto weakened by the loss of
sight blood. Finally, knowing that drowning, he cried Lola:
"Take courage. Escape myself! "And while she desperately tried
to swim to him, Ernesto disappeared in the waves. Their last
before landing on water SOS signal recorded many ships that
were in the area, they immediately went in search of distress.
Among these ships was, and "Latuga, an Italian merchant ship
under the command of Captain Diego sorokashestiletnego Suni. As
the warm evening medledlenno turned into a black Mediterranean
night most of the crew members began to lose hope that they will
find a young married couple. Signal for help was sent to
more than three hours ago. The team, sticking to the rail deck
and peering into the shiny spots of light, which threw the waves
powerful naval searchlight, already thinking about reopening
interrupted the route, when Ricky, ship a cat unexpectedly
took off on his nose and began to meow loudly, excitedly running
back and forth.
Acting on a hunch, Captain Suni ordered direct spotlight
the water before the nose of the ship. Moments later they saw a
prostrate on the water body of the girl. Immediately deckhand
Walter Dzhilliotti dived into the water. Ten minutes later,
weaken, and which is in deep shock - but in all other respects
not at all affected - Lola was carefully lifted to board. Her
life, she must not only brave young sailor, but an amazing
abilities cat Ricky.
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Desire Cats use their capabilities to save lives
perfectly illustrated by the following story comes to us
from USA, Australia and Italy.
One day, dank winter night Virgil McMillan picked up freezing
the cat who turned on the threshold of his house near the town
of Birriwa, Arkansas. Raising his trembling from the cold lump
of fur He brought it into heat and began to nurse. Slouli Cat
(slow cat), named him as Virgil, his wife Linda, quickly
regained his strength and stayed in the house, being faithful
and Smartest. Every evening, Kate Slouli allowed to go outside,
But he always returned home after a few minutes. In one
particularly cold winter night, about two years after
its appearance, Slouli Kate went out and never returned.
Temperature dropped below 12 degrees, concerned about Virgil
and Linda unsuccessfully searched the surrounding area.
The next morning the cat was still not there, and they decided
to continue searches. After searching the entire yard, Virgil
came to lying on the ground the old bag. He was going to throw
it aside as all of a sudden he got the cat, looked at his
master, and again climbed into the bag.
Carefully open the bag, Virgil stared in amazement at the fact
what seemed his eyes. The tiny half-starved boy lying at the
bottom of the bag, and Slouli Kate turned her body around him
and furiously licked deadly pale face of a child. Virgil
bullet sped off with the child in the house and rang the
emergency medical care. In Berrivillskom hospital almost dull
Child adopted Dr. Alan Randolph. "The body temperature of the
Child dropped to a critical point - says Dr. Randolph, - we
put him in a special thermostat and use special lamps to warm
it. Sure, Slouli Cat rescued from the death of a child,
abandoned at the fend for themselves in the middle of winter.
"He would have died - says Dr. Randolph, - though to him in the
bag does not slip through the cat. Licking and the warmth of
the animal rescued the child lives. " But none of those
involved with this drama, can not explain how Slouli Kate
learned that the child is thrown into an old bag. No doubt the
child was not crying, or Virgil and Linda would have heard it
while searching for the cat. Perhaps it the smell, although the
specialists with whom I spoke believe that the frozen soil to
the state of the concrete would make it impossible for cat feel
at least some odor. All that can be on this about to say -
Slouli Kate foresaw that he would find in this bag, and finding
a child, I realized that the boy's life depends from the heat
of it, the cat body. Sally - Australian actress, currently
zhivischaya in London. Once, late on Friday evening, she
returned to her home in Sydney after the shooting on
television. Dark streets seemed deserted until Houses were only
a few blocks away. Although Sally has never been panikershey
and a coward, the last a few weeks of her nerves were inflated
by the news that unknown maniac women strangled and then hung in
corpses on the street lamps. All of the victims - and there
were eight - were women about the age and appearance, Sally.
When the doors to the blessed stavalsya only one quarter
Sally for the first time all evening a sigh, more or less
peacefully. Suddenly she heard a loud, unmistakable cry of a cat
Caramel, which is fiercely mewing somewhere nearby in the dark.
This surprised Sally because, although the cat had the
opportunity to to leave the house at any time via a special
door, five-year "tabby" is usually waiting for the mistress,
comfortably in your favorite chair.
When the screams got closer, Sally stopped, the cat saw it.
Once it did, suddenly from somewhere out of the darkness
appeared muscular arm and took an iron grip for a woman throat.
Inability to cry and quickly lose strength, Sally felt her pull
into the car, parked at the curb. Then she noticed her cat ran
to him from the sidewalk, continuing with a deafening roar.
Seeing the animal and for a moment, fearing the noise, the
assailant several loosened its grip - not for long, just for a
split second, but it was enough to Sally has published a
heartbreaking cry of horror.
The murderer immediately dropped it, jumped in the car and ran
down the street. Later, police told Sally that she was lucky
she survived. They did not have the slightest doubt that the
killer outlined it to his nine victims, and only a deafening
scream saved her life. Sally, however, knew that her true savior
was Caramel. Somehow she had anticipated the attack and left
the house to save his owner from certain death.
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So far, we have considered cases in which the cat used
its ability to prevent bad luck with one particular person. But
there are many cases where foreseeability cats helped save from
destruction the whole group of people, warning them of imminent
danger of a natural disaster. If you ever happen to visit the
towns and villages climb the slopes of Vesuvius, on the eastern
shores of the Gulf of Naples, you will see that the vast
majority of families, Living here keeps cats. Of course, this
is partly due love of the townspeople to these wonderful pets,
but there also another consideration that makes cats especially
popular among residents whose homes are built on the slopes of
an active volcano. Prolonged life ring on the verge of death
has taught a simple truth: when it comes to predicting
eruptions, we must rely on pet.
Just before the volcano is alive, cats and other animals begin
to behave in an extremely strange, rushing from one corner,
loudly shouting, asking that their released from the house, and
receiving such a possibility, arrows fly as far as possible,
running away from the place where will flow molten lava. Their
owners if they have at least some reason, rarely behind them.
The history of Gianni and his black cat Toto is typical, along
with many others that are prevalent in areas of the volcanoes
in Europe and the Middle East. ... Came the end of March 1944
The war finally - with the advent of allies - came to an end,
allowing Gianni and his wife, Irma peacefully sleep in his
rural house on the outskirts of a small town San Sebastian at
Vesuvius. House of Gianni, for that matter, and the town
itself, lay in a hollow on which, in the case of a volcanic
eruption, lava flowed from the crater area in the valley below.
And yet this fact has never bothered shestidesyatidvuhletnego
peasant and his wife just as well, as he did not attach any
importance to the other inhabitants of San Sebastian. The last
major eruption, which destroyed most of the city and the
surrounding countryside Weight happened eighty years ago, and
nobody in the area did not believe that the eruption of this
magnitude could be repeated again. Neither Gianni nor Irma did
not know - and could not know - that at the very moment when
they are sleeping - in that cold March night - Vesuvius was on
the verge of explosion, which became the longest-running,
fierce and destructive eruption that has ever happened in our
days. But knew about it two cat Gianni, Toto. From noon the
previous day, he could not find a place, did not want to eat,
refused to in the house. Shortly after midnight on March 21 he
woke up his master the most effective way: scratching nails on
the cheek. Enraged at the unprovoked attack and still half
asleep, old man, with curses thrown off Toto. But the cat did
not give up, again and again attacked before until the landlord
does not jumped out of bed and did not chase the animals across
the room, threatening to pull from the skin. Finally, Irma, of
which it is already sick and tired, "said her husband, that he
ceased to measure stupidity with the cat and calmed down. Toto
was always very gentle and friendly creature, and never
scratched his master without a reason. Deeply religious old
woman took it as a sign of heaven, which could be only one
explanation: the volcano is about to explode.
While Gianni angrily protested, accusing his wife that she is
so as silly as a cat, finally agreed that we should
dress, loaded on a hand cart and go to the most necessary
through the night to her sister Irma, who lived in the area,
where usually Laban bleeding.
Within an hour after they left Mount Vesuvius erupted, and
after a very little time their house was swept away by the flow
raslavlennoy lava, which flowed from the crater of a wave of a
half-mile wide, to focus his fiery eye on San Sebastian. Before
the wrath of the volcano subsided, he killed almost thirty
people, most of whom were buried alive under a fire-breathing
lava and hot ash destroyed the town and several villages,
leaving more homeless 5,000 people.
Gianni and Irma survived and even managed to take out their
most valuable possessions, and all thanks to his visionary
abilities faithful friend Toto, who sped away in a safe place,
and later again united with their owners.
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Cats are also versed in the prediction of earthquakes, and in
these cases, their sixth sense of danger may be far more
reliable than expensive sophisticated electronic monitors.
For example, in August 1979 over two hundred of these devices
installed in Kalavers Fault, California, for the registration
of the first signs of an earthquake, quietly showed "all is
calm." But these sophisticated technological wonders have not
been able to predict earthquakes, so powerful that it shook
buildings in the 130 miles from the epicenter in San Francisco.
As a result, local residents were unprepared, and many were
seriously injured.
Nevertheless, this destruction can look stark contrast to
compared with those strange events that took place just
three years earlier in Friuli, the north-east
Italy on the Adriatic coast.
Calm cool May evening cats in the area began
behave in a truly strange. They were worn in back and forth
furiously scratching at the door and windows and, having the
freedom to disappear into darkness. At 9 pm, area has undergone
intense jolts earthquake.
Such incidents were repeated many times, especially in those
parts the world where earthquakes are commonplace. Here, in a
region of high seismic hazard, local people piously believe in
the prophetic power of their pets, especially cats, who warn
them of imminent danger. These predictions were so accurate
and so often observed in all sorts of records made in the last
hundred years that Now scientists all over the world explore
this phenomenon in the hope to use the unique abilities of
animals in their noble purposes. The challenge facing
researchers USA, Russia, China and Germany, find out what,
exactly, cats and other animals is truly sensitive organ. After
solving this problem, they is calculated to construct a
mechanical device, which will have similar effectiveness for
early warning of cataclysms, although the cost they will surely
be more expensive than any cat. One of the researchers, which,
in particular, are interested in Earthquake in Friuli was Dr.
Helmut Tribuch, a biochemist at the Max Planck Society for
Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. He himself was born in the
region of Friuli, and specifically investigated the behavior of
domestic animals in the hours and minutes leading up to the
earthquake. Dr. Tribuch notes that all the cats in one village
have fled their homes long before the quake, and back back only
two days later. As reported by American researchers, in a
similar way behaved cat and California on the eve of the
earthquake of 1979. Not wanting to be trapped for a second
time, scientists have conducted extensive research work,
sponsored by the Geological Society of the United States. Two
researchers, Dr. Leon Otis, practicing psychologist, and Dr.
William Kautz, an expert in computer technology, did research
and trained over 10,000 volunteers who are given strict
instructions vigilantly watching certain members of the animal
peace and keep a detailed record of everything that animals do.
Observers should note all unusual behavior. If as an animal
does something particularly unusual, volunteers should
immediately contact the researchers for pre- reserved a
"hotline". Huge amount of data collected during this
experiment, yet estimated, but the results already show that,
like, folk stories and popular belief about the abilities of
animals, particularly cats, to predict with accuracy the
fantastic natural disasters are not unfounded. So if you live
in a dangerous area, do not forget to watch for your cat -
maybe one day it will save your life.
A doctor Tribuch argues that the ability of cats to effectively
predict future earthquakes due to the fact that they
can capture in the surrounding positively charged
atoms and ions. Immediately before the earthquake, these
particles released in large quantities, making the surrounding
air actually "alive", the boiling of electrostatic activity.
Because we humans are highly insensitive to the presence of
such particles, even the incredible increase in positive ions
practically does not have any impact on us, except, perhaps,
mild headache or irritability. But cats, being highly
susceptible, experiencing frustration as mood and behavior,
since the surrounding air causes changes in the chemical
processes in the brain and nervous system. One such change is
probably the increase in production Serotina, vlyayuschego's
emotional state. And although there is sufficient evidence to
support the theory of increasing ions that affect the behavior
of cats on the eve of the earthquake or volcanic eruption, Dr.
Ernst Kilian of the Valdivia University of Chile, which
collected information about animals and earthquakes since 1960,
offered a different explanation. From his point of view, the
cat may feel - and this feeling has a depressing effect on them
- a very weak ground shaking, which precedes an earthquake. It
is possible that tremor possesses some unique characteristics
that greatly frightened and worried about the cats and other
animals. Dr. Killian also believed that cats can feel the
magnetic phenomena to which people are immune. Changes in the
ambient magnetic field may become yet another signal early
warning of strong earthquakes. But all the same. Let the cats
are sensitive to positive ions, very finely perceived petty
petty shake the soil and have ability to detect changes in
Earth's magnetic field. But how to explain how they are
anticipating accidents and disaster Drigo types?
Seem plausible two explanations. First: many of the events
may be associated with the sounds lezhimi outside the range of
perception the human ear. Explosion of a kinescope, for
example, it is possible was associated with radiation
sverhchastotnyh signals directly before the explosion.
Probably, they have resulted in irritation or fright sleeping
cat, resigning in protest of the room. In other cases, perhaps
a cat perceive signals, frequency which is too low for human
ears. Because our ears unstable at any given moment, it is very
difficult to determine upper and lower thresholds of our
perceptions, but the maximum Sensitivity ranges from 1500 to
4000 vibrations in second (Hz), although at a sufficiently
large volume can be heard and better sound. By the age of fifty
hear the sound frequency of 5000 Hz, about a hundred times more
difficult than in the twenty- years. Animals have a more subtle
hearing. Mice, for example, may perceive the squeak of their
relatives at a frequency of 100000 Hz, and cats of the upper
and lower thresholds are not less impressive. Cats have such a
capacity, important in life, combining the ability to hear very
quiet sounds, and distinguish them from background Drigo noise.
Rica, the ship's cat who saved a girl from certain death,
probably singled out her faint cries from the roar of the
ship's engine and the sound of waves. Human expressions of fear
and despair are perceived by animals as alarm calls. However,
it is extremely subtle auditory characteristics - just one side
of the coin, because the cats have at least another one unique
and extra sensory organ. This is posuschestvu, the sixth sense.
Called vomeronasalnym organ or Jacobson's organ, he consists
of the cartilaginous tube approximately centimeter in length,
located at the base of the mouth and associated with ambient
air for through a small hole directly behind the front teeth.
Vestigial traces of body Jacobson, named after the
Danish anatomist of the XIX century, are also present in
humans, but he is no longer represent a functional value.
In cats this body forms part of the sense of smell in
It has the nerves that transmit impulses directly to the
olfactory areas of the brain. To take advantage of their
Body Jacobson, a cat must first stop any action
in order to draw air into the hole body. This allows
it to isolate and identify the different types of molecules
forming flows in the atmosphere. In this sense, the body is
similar to the perception of taste and smell, but because these
feelings are already well developed in cats, and considering
that all created by nature is its meaning, Jacobson organ,
probably serves a very important additional function of
perception. Watch for your cat, look how she enjoys
this body. To do this, note the following features of its
behavior. Before you draw into this body air cat stops suddenly
rooted to the spot, half-open mouth and plunging the lips, thus
allowing the hole to get the largest possible amount of air.
Expression of the muzzle of a cat in when it performs an action
that can be compared with a grin or grimace. West German
experts call This behavior Flehmen (grimace). This usually
happens during the lazy cat walks on its own territory and can
soprovodatsya raised front paw hanging pad or other signs of
interest and wary attention. Until now, we do not know exactly
what information gets cat by Jacobson's organ, although it was
found that it plays its role in registering Fermont, relating
to the sexual characteristics of other cats. It is also
possible that this is the sixth sense at least in part, and is
thus a device that liability for the prediction. If an event
causes a slight change in the chemical composition of air, for
example, before volcanic eruption, earthquakes, forest fires
and so on, "Analysis" vego only a few molecules of a substance
can be early warning.
So, we have a cat - an animal that can determine
approximation of the master, with a far distance to hear the
sounds too high or too low for human perception, to determine
smells that we do not feel, and probably respond to such
environmental characteristics as changes in electric charge,
magnetic field or the molecular composition, ie all that is
past us unnoticed. But that's not enough to convince the
owners of cats and numerous experts, that cats do not possess
supernatural natural abilities. Since most of They are
convinced that fantastichekie predictions cats can only be
explained by the fact that they are cats, of course, have some
form of extrasensory perception.
"The question mark"
H. H. Nepomnyashchii
February 1993.
To be continued ...
Publication prepared by:
Leonid Korolev 095/550.6 :537-4989
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