Woman shares how her cat and dogs are happier once she kicked out her ex-boyfriend from the flat: 'I will never not listen to my animals again.'

Listing these things one after the other makes the difference very clear to anyone who has a hard time imagining the behavioral difference in pets when it comes to household dynamics. It's known, for example, that how parents behave affects their kids later on in life - the house they grow up in shapes a lot of their early perspective on life. But seeing very clearly how these things affect our pets as well only strengthens the validity of the psychological phenomenon.

It's like this famous saying about Pit Bulls - they might've been bred to be fighting dogs, but they were bred so in a way that solidified their owner-pleasing characteristics. Meaning that it's not their muscles, jaws, or bite power that made them fierce fighting dogs - it was their endless desire to please their humans (who, back then, wanted and encouraged them to fight). Now, Pit Bulls are one of the sweetest dog breeds around - and that's because this is how their humans treat them, and what behaviors they encourage. And Pit Bulls are eager to please their owners, so this is why the behavior of an entire dog breed changed.

And this is true for pets in general, and especially in the situation described here - how we act around our pets affects them deeply.