Loneliness is debilitating disease that makes its victims feel melancholic and sad. Many of us, at least once, experienced this. Like people animals also suffer from this disease.
Dogs are known as gregarious creatures that hate to be left at home whether for a short or long time. Cats are not pack species like dogs, however, they do need a social life, meeting and playing with people. For sociable animals loneliness is the worst punishment that exists. They literally become depressed, may refuse food, and eyes cease to glow with living light. A lonely animal often feels betrayed and abandoned. This is called the loneliness syndrome. But these creatures have permanent residence unlike those that were abandoned.