Evil Poodle Tortures Soon-To-Die Seniors

A few months ago, a story about a cat who seemed to know when nursing home patients were going to die made the rounds on TV and the news. The general consensus was that the cat helped comfort patients in their final hours and alerted the nursing home that family members should be summoned, etc.

Well, it took a while for them to localize this story, but NBC 10 has joined the party! Medical reporter Cherie Bank has found a local poodle who won’t enter the rooms of hospital nursing home patients who are about to die. Ha ha! What a nice thing to do!

“The first few times, I really didn’t put it together,” said Marge Stiller, the poodle’s owner and trainer. Stiller said when Libby won’t pass the threshold, it’s because “she has the ability to know — I don’t want to say predict — know when a person is going to be passing away within 24 hours.”

And Marge said Libby’s track record is pretty “dog-gone” good, Bank reported. “It’s 100 percent. It’s been 100 percent, yeah,” Stiller said.

Stiller has been taking Libby to nursing homes, rehab hospitals and retirement communities for about 12 years.

So this dog has been torturing nursing home patients for 12 years. Oh, but apparently they don’t tell the patients whose room the dog won’t enter — until now, of course. And since she didn’t tell anyone until now, perhaps the dog has never predicted anyone’s death at all!

Local Pooch Knows When You’re About To Die [NBC 10]
Feline intuition [Boston Globe]