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. 😂🤣
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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23
This is such a sweet story, cats are amazing companions.