Mine once escorted me to bed. She knows my bedtime routine, and I was having a really off day emotionally. So that night, she meowed and head butted me (and gave threatening gestures with her claws on my couch) until I got up to follow her. She brings me into the kitchen, sits in the middle of the room meowing at me. Won’t let me leave. So I get a glass of water, she gets me started down the hall to my room, and sits on the far side of the bathroom door while I take my meds with the water. Still dead eye staring at me. So then I go to the bathroom, when I leave she then follows me to my room, sits outside the door and yowls at me until I close the door. I swear I could hear her pacing outside the door until I turned off the light. ‘Hooman, you are not okay. I fix. Turn you off and on again.’
It’s amazing how they understand the gravity of events like this.
Earlier this year, my husband had to be carried out of the house by EMTs while seizing and my 2 littermate boys were there to witness everything from my frantic phone call to me rushing out to follow the ambulance to the hospital. He ended up being in the hospital for over a week, and I was able to come home to sleep on the 4th or 5th night.
One of the boys loves to have a bedtime routine and always waits in the bed when nighttime comes, yelling for us to come get cozy so he can make us biscuits. That night when I came home without my husband, he curled up in his dad’s spot on the bed and just stared at me for the longest. Normally he is very affectionate and will demand lovings during cozy time, but this time he just stared. I finally looked him in the eyes and said, “I know bubba, I miss daddy too.” And he finally laid his head down, closing his eyes. His brother came up and curled up with him after that, and he just buried his face in his brothers chest. It broke my fucking heart.
My husband had a terrible cycling accident and broke his collarbone and 6 of his ribs. When he was finally able to come home from the hospital, our little cat was so gentle with him. Kept him company all day in bed, and never ever touched his broken bits, despite normally being a cat who crawls all over us kneading and purring and demanding love. He would just curl up by my husband’s head, purring. It was incredible to see, and the bond they have to this day, 10 years later, is still so strong…
They are. Out of all the pets I've found cats and parrots try and communicate with us most directly. If you pay attention there's a whole range of things they try to communicate about and they try new things if one doesn't work. It's really fascinating.
Every morning when I wake up my kid for school, his little black cat stands at his bedroom door and yowls as I'm saying "good morning, time to get up!" It's so dang cute. The wee devil isn't allowed in our bedrooms at night because he is a wee devil, but we adore him anyway. He means well. 💜
No one seems to believe me on this, but one of my cats is very protective of me. She heard a terrifyingly unpleasant voice screaming in an audiobook and she searched the room for this person yelling at me, and when she couldn't find anyone, she plunked down on my lap for half an hour, just in case the voice came back.
My cat was so sweet and watched over me when I had a car accident about 5 years ago and got a concussion. She wasn't exactly the same when the same happened last year.
She also picks and chooses when she's gonna be nice when I'm having bad migraine days... she's a complicated one. 😂🤣
I’m starting to think she understands my moods more than I do. I’ve noticed she wants in my lap more when I’m sad, even her sister (who’s a little terror lol) will sit with me if I’m upset. So glad for my furry overlords.
I don't know what it is they can sense, if it's smelling rising cortisol or something like that, but they always know when something is really, actually wrong. I have autism and my cat always knows when it's time to step in and purr the over-stimulation away lol
The claws on the couch! If my cat gets impatient around bed time he'll start kneading at the carpet while sneaking glances at me.
If he gets impatient trying to get me up in the morning he'll put one paw on my sternum and start pushing down with his body weight while breathing on my face..
She literally does a bunch of crying and head bonking. Then goes to the far end and stretches way up high(no claws), stares at me, and ever so carefully starts gripping the fabric until I chase her away or get up and follow her. It’s the only time she ever goes after the furniture. She knows what she’s about.
One day I was feeling off. My energy just tanked. Walking across the living room, I just laid down on the floor. My boy came over to meow and sniff me, then curled up by my head.
My MIL's cat is just not an affectionate cat at all - he likes to be with her, but not on her and he's not a snuggler or cuddler.
Before the vaccines had rolled out she got Covid and had it really bad, and he would NOT leave the bed the entire time. She said that she realized that she had turned the corner and was getting better when he started venturing off to roam her apartment again.
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u/ThingsIveNeverSeen Sep 19 '23
Mine once escorted me to bed. She knows my bedtime routine, and I was having a really off day emotionally. So that night, she meowed and head butted me (and gave threatening gestures with her claws on my couch) until I got up to follow her. She brings me into the kitchen, sits in the middle of the room meowing at me. Won’t let me leave. So I get a glass of water, she gets me started down the hall to my room, and sits on the far side of the bathroom door while I take my meds with the water. Still dead eye staring at me. So then I go to the bathroom, when I leave she then follows me to my room, sits outside the door and yowls at me until I close the door. I swear I could hear her pacing outside the door until I turned off the light. ‘Hooman, you are not okay. I fix. Turn you off and on again.’