My old lady cat is very sensitive to my emotional state. If I am having a really bad depressive episode she needs to be in my lap and if that is not helping she pushes her nose under my chin or chews on my stubble.

If I am destructively ruminating she gets upset and bats at my feet and pulls on my pants cuff with her claws while angrily meowing.

That’s a bold face lie. Our old cat comes running if she hears one of us crying or even coughing. She is genuinely worried and stays around till we are back to normal.

I’ve never had a cat like that. They would check up on me even for just being motionless for too long (like a change in behaviour to the normal).

My cat cuddles me when I’m sad. If any cat were born to be a support Kitty, it’s my Panda

I used to live with two cats. One would always be there when I was sad but would leave if I started crying, the other didn’t seem to care much if I was low grade sad but would always show up if I was crying. There’d be a trading of the cats in the doorway whenever I migrated from small sad to big sad

idk, cats are really sweet if you understand how they show affection. Though on this particular note, my grumpy old man of a cat taught himself to basically be an anxiety/panic attack service animal. He started doing it years ago when I was really struggling with anxiety and depression. But now if he hears someone, even one of the little kids crying or even gets the vibe one of us in the house is about to have an anxiety/panic attack he will come up to us, rub up on us, and start trying to like burrow his way into whatever ball we’re curled up in to get into our faces and try to get us to pet him. Then he’ll just sit there demanding pets from us until whatever attack we are having subsides and he’ll trot off.

Little goofball would even guard the twins swings. The second one of the swings stopped or one of them started crying he’d run over and meow at one of us and lead us to the problem. And oh the beating he gave to one of the other cats the one time he dared to hiss at one of those babies for crying. I hadn’t even had the chance to stand up yet and that old man practically flew across the room and have 7 or 8 loud paw slaps to the offender’s face and the most threatening yowl I’d ever heard come out of him. The other cat was fine too, no serious harm to anything but his pride. It was very much a “WTF are you doing? Those are babies! GTFO before I really hurt you,” kind of thing.

When I’m depressed in bed, it never takes more than a minute for my cat to lie down on my chest and start to purr.
Or rub her face against mine.

My cat is usually on my wife’s belly trying to comfort her at the first sign she’s upset. If she can’t get to her belly to calm her down, she paces around her yowling incessantly until she can.

I don’t think I’ll ever meet another cat as empathetic as her, tbh.

Only somewhat true. Many cats are certainly like this, and most aren’t as obsequious about it as dogs, but I’ve had a few that will come over when they sense someone’s upset.

That’s not my cats. They both know when someone is hurting emotionally and come over to sit on our lap and comfort us. Not all cats are mean and aloof.

nah, cat used to swiftly come to the rescue whenever i was feeling down.

But then they cuddle you. Still judge you, but understand that you need support.

Some cats are like this. I’d like to add a speech bubble to the last frame: “You may be leaking but I still trust you fully, I know you’re safe and reliable. You always have my back, see?”

Literally. Since I got too disabled to feed the cat she ignores me. She comes to everyone else now and then to snuggle. But not to me.