Amos, I have not said, and do not intend in any way to give the impression that if I can't touch it , it ain't real...like a number of people I will tend to use Occams Razor wherever possible. In this instance, I simply had not seen nor read about such a phenomenon and was curious to know if anyone else had. I was actually more intrigued, not by the neighbourhood cats 'mourning' his passing, if indeed that was what they were doing, but by their attempts to dig him up again since presumably, as someone else has stated, they could smell/sense that he was beyond survival.