Normally, Achilles, a deaf, white cat, lives in the basement of the St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum and hunts for mice. But for the 2018 World Cup, the animal has been praised as a feline fortuneteller capable of predicting the winners of soccer matches.

Last year, the cat predicted the outcomes of three out of four soccer matches in the FIFA Confederations Cup. But despite popular claims of the clairvoyant cat, experts say Achilles can’t predict the outcome of the World Cup. (Related: everything you think about your cat could be wrong.)

“I am not convinced,” says Kristyn Vitale, a cat researcher at Oregon State University's Human Animal Interaction Lab. “There’s just been no research in that kind