#7 I believe it. Animals know kindness and love.
It's been said that people give off a scent that animals can use to help judge the person and their intentions. Their senses are typically keener than those of a human.
I was watching a cat for someone who never came back to pick it up. We basically shared a space for a couple of years.
I had an accident and after a stay in the hospital with a broken leg, etc. I made it back home.
I immediately went to bed and after staring at me for a while the cat jumped up into the bed and tucked in right beside me - something the cat had *never* ever done before.
Once I was asleep the cat got up, walked to the bottom of the bed and sniffed my broken leg from my toes up to wherever. The cat sniffed for a long time and then came back - to the other side - and cuddled up.
I don't think the cat had ever cuddled up before in its life. The cat seemed to know that something was very wrong.
One of my labs is in love with my husband..
She gives him her treasured red ball. She doesn't want him to throw it. She wants him to have it.
She won't take it back and some times she lays it on his pillow.