Hound of death

Do animals have a sixth sense? It is widely thought that animals can somewhat predict natural disasters such as earthquakes, however, according to this story that my latin teacher told me sometime ago, there was also a dog that might have been able to predict death itself.

Our story begins in a small rural spanish town (whose name I can't remember), in this town, there was an old dog that would wonder around the cold streets of the town every night, and after walking for a while, he would sit down in front of the door of one of the residents, the next morning, one of the people living in this house would be found death. This would continue to happen until the dog was beaten to death one night by some drunkards who thought he was the cause of the death of those people.

So, what do you think? Do you think that the behaviour of the dog was just pure concidence, he could predict death or maybe he was somehow the cause of the death of those people. However, one can't deny how bizarre this situation was.