All bets are off. Cats can predict soccer winners.

The FIFA World Cup of Soccer (hosted this year by Russia) is set to start tomorrow and bets are being made all over the world.  But apparently a deaf cat in St. Petersburg, Russia, (a resident of the formal royal-palace-turned-museum called the Hermitage no less!) can predict the winners of matches, Fox News reports.  Achilles, seen above, can accurately choose the winner of a soccer match merely by choosing one of two bowls of food from which to eat.  Each bowl is marked with the flag of one of the two competing teams.  "He's completely unbiased...he probably feels from his heart and a special cat sense," says the cat's veterinarian, Anna Kondratyeva. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quote, 112 words]