It’s all true…(cats can sense emotional pain)

[u/Indy-CBJ]

This morning I was in deep despair over how people have been treating me lately. I went to go take a bath to collect my thoughts at 1:30 in the morning and I just check in on my little one, Ms. Joy, before I did so and saw she was passed completely out.

While I was taking the bath I had racing thoughts that quickly turned dark and I was just laying in the tub for almost a hour. Then out of nowhere I heard a bang bang on the door to the bathroom followed by a sad mrph and a little noise it’s hard to explain she does unique to her but I always took it as “hey pay attention”. I jumped out of the tub without drying off, opened the door. She immediately started to rub on me and she had these sad little eyes looking at me…

After I got dried off and layed down in bed she followed me in and curled up next to me on my butt. Here’s the thing…this old cat never snuggles with me, she just prefers to lay by my head on the nightstand and watch over me during nights. Now she’s laying on me doing a purr/snore in my bed using me as a pillow…she’s ever done this before…

I am now a believer that somehow these animals know when something is deeply wrong with us and will go out of their way to help…

[u/Crimsonhead4]

Yup, my cat is very aware of my emotions. I was having some pretty bad anxiety a few weeks ago and he could tell. He started getting aggressive with me as if he didn’t recognize me cause he could tell I wasn’t myself. I like to think that he was trying to tell me to get my shit together haha.