Empathic Cats

Empathy Cues 

Humans! They need proof. We cats have known all along that we respond to your feelings. 

Anyway, now there's proof. In a recent study, Social referencing and cat–human communication, scientists found that cats referred to their human's feelings as a reference to how they could respond.

Most cats (79 %) exhibited referential looking between the owner and the object, and also to some extent changed their behaviour in line with the emotional message given by the owner. 

 My personal theory is that the more time we spend with humans, the better we read them. But, hey, what do I know? I'm a cat. 

I've been with my human Mom and Dad a long time in cat years. I think I read them pretty well.