Pets sense when they are going to die.
Pets have an instinctive sense of when they are going to die
Boffin Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has claimed that evidence shows that pets provide a "last rally" to provide comfort for their owners before they pass away.
Dr. Sheldrake says he has 25 years' worth of stories of animals performing kind gestures for humans before leaving the room to pass away alone and spare their owners the agony of seeing their demise.
He said: "Terminal lucidity is well documented in hospices, but rarely studied. It's a burst of mental and physical energy, often accompanied by unusual clarity, soon before death.
"And it appears equally common in animals.
"My tentative theory is that the last rally has an evolutionary benefit. In the wild, an animal that instinctively knows it is dying can take itself away, to go somewhere its corpse won't spread disease."
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