While dogs may be man's best friend, cats are certainly the most
curious and the most psychic of pets. Throughout the ages they
have predicted earthquakes and other natural disasters, they
have found missing persons and alerted their owners to danger.
They can sense when a person needs help. Betty White relates
a story of "Handsome," a Persian Cat who was taken to a nursing
home and met Marie, a lonely senior with no friends or family.
Marie remained curled up in fetal position with no interest for
living says one of the doctors who had been treating her. She
also had sores on her legs from constant scratching.

Once they were established roommates, "Handsome" changed things, said White. Whenever Marie
tried scratching, "Handsome" would play with her hands or otherwise distract her. He always gave
her something to do. Within a month the sores had healed, but even more incredible, Marie was so
fascinated with this cat that she asked the staff about his care. Before long she was visiting other
residents and inviting them to come visit her new found friend. Pets are wonderful!

The incredible ability of our canine four legged friends is
astounding. They sniff out deadly land mines in Bosnia and
earthquakes worldwide searching for victims, After the
bombing in Oklahoma City, they crawled through twisted
metal and broken glass in 12 hour shifts searching. K-9
corps dogs work with Police and Military Personnel to
uncover drugs, bombs, and criminals at airports, specially
trained beagles scramble through cargo and baggage for
illegal contraband including foreign viruses. They aide
the blind and assist the deaf and disabled.

Amazingly their super sensitive sniffers have been used to detect cancerous lesions long before
they look suspicious. At the Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center in Florida, dermatologist
Armand Cognetta found that dogs can sense an epileptic seizure by picking up changes in a persons
electrical field minutes before the seizure overtakes them with warning the person to sit down, stop
driving or get immediate life saving help. (Search Dog Photo: AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)