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Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats
Velcroman1 writes "This again: scientists at Oxford University claim canines are smarter than felines. And the reason, according to the researchers, is that dogs are more social animals and therefore have bigger brains than the more solitary-inclined cats. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, charted the evolutionary history of various mammals' brains over 60 million years and found a link between the size of an animal's brain in relation to its body and how socially active it was."
Cats OTOH are just freeloading parasites. Occasionally they purr and rub against you to mark their territory.
I've never met a cat that could respond to its name, let alone do tasks as complex as dogs.
There's a reason you don't have "helper cats" for the blind.
Cat's are not more intelligent. Theya re unable to be trained in ost cases, and even then ti's in the csinmplest of response.
Cats are stupid, but since you are confusing there lack of intellegence with 'attitude'.
Basically you think there independent and there for more intelligent.
Stop anthropomorphizing animals.... they hate that~
YOU EXPERIENCE counts fro diddley squat. It's nearly the worse kind on anecdote.
Science shows Dogs are smarter. And yeah, I have owned both but I would llet my anecdote determine what's real
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Your dog also licks peanut butter off your mother's vulva.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
You feed the stray cats? Your local bird and squirrel population thanks you.
We don't feed strays around here. We shoot them. It's fun target practice and better for the native animal populations that stray cats decimate.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.