And I've read that the average cat has an IQ of around 1. So if you could get 160 cats together, they would collectively be as smart as Einstein.
Posted on 11/29/2018 7:39:05 AM PST by C19fan
“Sometimes I don’t think you’re smart enough to come in
out of the rain, Barack.”
“Oh come on now,I’ve done it lots of times.”
That explains why I have cats. I have always been a solitary hunter.;-)
There's nothing smarter than a hormonally-raging teenage boy on the prowl for girls. Well, nothing smarter except for teenage girls who are just beginning to blossom.
I think dogs are smarter, but I have seen a bunch of dogs be tremendously puzzled and shocked by their own farts. My theory is that they think there is another dog behind them who has been eating their food, and they want this dog to knock it off already.
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I have cats. One of them is a psychopath (really--I read an article on it in a pet magazine so it must be true) and the other plays dumb just to manipulate me.
I have outsmarted the psychopath a couple of times, but usually he gets the better of me. BTW, the focus of his psychopathy is food. He wants more even when his plate is full and he isn't even hungry.
What about the cat in California who ran off a dog who was attacking a little boy on a bike?
And I've read that the average cat has an IQ of around 1. So if you could get 160 cats together, they would collectively be as smart as Einstein.
Dogs are the most trainable animals out there not because they're exceptionally intelligent, but because they think of us as members of their social group and want to please us. Most animals, especially wild ones (or semi-wild ones, which is what cats still are) don't have any interest in pleasing us, or to have anything else to do with us except being fed.
Our cats earn their dinners and special treats by keeping down the varmint, snake and bug population and bring me presents. The dogs, eh.
Never had a dumb cat but have had dumb dogs. It took two years or more for one to learn to bark. That said, have also had one very intelligent dog. It’s all a crap shoot just as in humans.
Different breeds have different abilities. Cats don’t need all the abilities that dogs have and vice versa.
It is impossible to compare cats/dogs for intelligence, just as it is impossible to compare breeds.
Each is as intelligent as it needs to be for its role in life.
Invalid “study.”
“And did you ever hear of a cat rescuing Timmy when he fell in the well?
= = =
Neither the cat nor Lassie fell into the well.
Timmy did.”
I am sure many of Timmy’s family cats fell in the well or something like that.
Lassie was smart enough not to save them. The family was better to be rid of them.
Being a good dog I’ll bet Lassie killed several worthless cats by herself. Probably pushed them under a tractor or hay baler. Lassie was a good dog.
There are no good cats.
“I once saw a dog save a child, it recognized the danger the child was in and took decisive action to save him. A cat would have barely cared enough to watch.”
Gosh, you are sure smart and well traveled.
Here is a video of a DOG TRYING TO RIP A TODDLER TO PIECES, and CAT SAVING THE TODDLER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhV8YoEUqA
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Totally awesome body slam..
My cat has a function. He keeps rats, mice and other vermin out of my home.
Kept a rescue kitty for years. I had to put her down, and within a month there were vermin in my home. The dogs were utterly useless. They would literally watch a rat walk across the fireplace.
Got another rescue cat, no more vermin.
The cat has a job, the dog is the companion animal here
Okay, I didn’t think about the mouse and rodent duty some cats do, so some do have a job just like some dogs. Not all dogs are good watchdogs. Some, like you two said, are more companion animals. It works both ways and yes; there are smart and not so smart of both species. I have 4 dogs. One is really smart. Two are medium to very smart but stubborn and one is just not that bright at all but she’s still a good dog.
The only reason I never got a cat was because my dogs were never used to them so they just wanted to chase them and do what dogs do when they catch something. To my knowledge none has ever had that chance I’m happy to say. I like cats. I just like dogs more.
Both man and canids were cursorial hunters. The teamwork between men devising the hunting strategy, with their faster compatriots implementing encirclement of large prey, brought greater success. The tamed wolves faced less risk avoiding a direct take-down of aggressive game, and men found more opportunity to use larger weaponry suited to prey size. Thus, a natural synergy developed between the two species, both which practiced pack hunting.
Wolves became domesticated when men would toss them pieces of cooked meat from the fire.
Before that, there was no synergy, no compatriotship.
The relationship came first because of the smell and taste of cooked meat.
With all due respect, your theory attributes more adaptability to wolves than they are capable of...even now.
It was cooked meat that transformed wolves into dogs.
Humans are runners. When they don't run, they die.
When our knees and feet give out, we can resort to biking or swimming to continue our physical and mental (and, perhaps, spiritual) need for physical movement.
Humans are designed to move.
Stop moving and you will die shortly thereafter (or be so depressed that you will wish you were dead).
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