Psychology says dogs and cats can actually sense human sadness,

Psychology says dogs and cats can actually sense human sadness, not through words, but through energy. When your voice gets quiet, your shoulders drop, your breathing slows, their brain picks it up like a signal. Your sadness changes their heartbeat, too. That's why your pet suddenly finds you and sits beside you without a word. They don't try to fix it. They just stay. Because in their world, presence is love. Scientists call it emotional attunement. A silent connection between two nervous systems built over years of trust, routine, and care. So when your pet curls beside you on bad days, that's not random. That's empathy wired into their biology. They feel your pain, mirror your calm, and remind you you were never really alone. And maybe that's why when they're gone, silence hurts so much because it's not just quiet. It's the absence of someone who always understood you without a single