My cat gets like this all the time and we live in a Caribbean country. She’s probably cold-sensitive, I guess.
Cats can’t read Hegel nor Nietzsche, so I say no, they can’t experience existential dread.
Don’t know why the contrast between Portugal and Spain is so funny to me.
I hear you OP, I too have to watch all the content in one sitting or else I get an aneurysm and an epileptic seizure at the same time. /S