And they say cats aren't sensitive

H1954 get real! Cats cannot be trained to "crap" in their owners gardens!

My cats don’t crap in anyone’s garden. .

Mine used to crap in anyone’s garden, including ours.?

They did it sensitively, mind ( covered it up.)

Actually both dogs and cats can be empathetic with your mood.

I'm quite sure dogs are empathetic too but I only posted because of the totally unexpected and therapeutic visit of a strange cat to a sad lady.

I lost my husband mid Feb this year. My cat has been so sweet. She seems to sense when I m sad and doesn’t leave my side. I ve rewarded her today with some baked chicken which she loved. Such a blessing.

H1954 I too can never understand why cats are allowed to roam at will. Some judge declared they were animals that had a natural habit to do so. Dogs from wolves have this too but aren't allowed. I have had cats and none have been allowed to wander. Only when children were young did one cat escort them for 100 yds down the road to school. Would also go and sit waiting on them coming home. That's as far as any of the cats ever ventured. To me it's laziness of cat owners to train their pet.

Completely agree that cats shouldn’t be allowed to just wander wherever and poo in any garden they choose. My son’s garden is surrounded by cat owning folk and so his garden is often full of cat muck. He has a little girl who likes to run about in the garden but the cats have made it such a mess. Dog owners have to clean up their pets’ mess - why can’t cat owners be made to do the same? I have nothing against cats, just their unjustified mess in others’ gardens

At age 15 DD1 caught glandular fever and was very poorly on bed rest.
Our black cat at the time, who was very much an outdoor sort of puss, visited our daughter in bed and insisted on lying by her day in day out for 15 days.
They had an inseparable bond after that, and it was lovely to see.

Sorry Jane10 I forgot to comment on the OP and was just following the thread.Yes, that was a nice moment for your neighbour, as if the cat sensed that she needed a friend.?

When we lost a cat two years ago, I said to his brother that now he would need to spend more time with DH, as the cat who died had spent time with him. The survivor was and is very much my cat.

Since then MY cat spends time every morning cuddling DH.

Years ago I lived in a flat with a long passage between the kitchen and dining room. The cat I had then loved walking as slowly as possible through this narrow passage just in front of whoever was trying to walk there. This was highly exasperating to humans, but a great game to the cat.

When my mother started walking badly, the cat stopped teasing her in this way, but continued to tease the rest of us.

Later when my father started walking badly, the cat showed him the same consideration.

We had a beautiful silver grey cat from a rescue centre, she was very gentle and shy. She would disappear when we had visitors. Our son's MIL had a cat phobia and could not get out of the car, when she visited, until she knew the cat was confined! One day the cat escaped, she strutted boldly into the sitting room and made straight for MIL, sat at her feet and stared long and hard into her face. MIL freaked out! The cat turned and strolled away. Weirdest thing we had ever seen.