* Not to mention cats doing “CAT scans.” The idea of cats sniffing cancer may not be far-fetched. I’ve come across a few accounts of cats reportedly alerting their people to cancer. One, a rescued Oregon cat named Mia, made her person aware she might have a problem in her right breast. “All of a sudden out of nowhere she just got up on my chest and she sniffed that breast and then looked in my face, sniffed the spot again and looked in my face,” Michelle Pearson said in a radio interview. “I tried to shove her off and she came back up and just laid down on that right breast. And she looked at me like, I’m trying to tell you something.” Michelle went to the doctor and was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.