Same here.
(And our cat is definitely at the high end of the IQ scale, and waaay smarter than some dogs I know.)
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OMG, my cat never goes outside either…I’m starting to believe she thinks like Rorschach in Watchmen (warning: violence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xmzXG1GmkI
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What I found interesting was that Wikipedia’s article on “dog intelligence” used to measure intelligence in dogs by how well they learned to obey human commands. (I’m sure the last time I read it, that it did!) But that’s apparently changed since whenever I read it last.
Now it has a separate article about a book named The Intelligence of Dogs, by Stanley Coren. The author measured intelligence in dogs, and ranked them, by a dog’s obedience to commands, and how well a dog grasped what a command meant in the quickest amount of time.
(The ability to understand commands and obey them is not necessarily a good measurement of intelligence, in my view.)
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Just gonna leave this here…
It’s an awesome YouTube channel.
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Full disclosure: I have six head of cats. I describe them that way because they are not all “complete.”
Specifically, among them, they have 22 legs (do the math) 5.2 tails, and 11.4 ears.
They’re all neutered, so technically, I suppose I should declare zero gonads also.
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I know which one I want around if I ever get stuck down a well.
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The verdict is in, and cats are stupider than dogs.
What do you expect when people won’t let them in the damn library?!
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That dogs are smarter than cats does not necessarily follow from the study’s findings. Number of cortical neurons is a brutish measure of intelligence. Cortical connectivity matters more than sheer volume of neurons. It’s possible to have a network of 250 million neurons that outperforms a network of 530 million neurons—it’s just a matter of how they are networked!
Using the number of cortical neurons as a proxy for an animal’s intelligence is as ridiculous as using the number of transistors in a CPU as a proxy for a robot’s intelligence—it’s just looking at the hardware without taking into account the software. Potential computational power is not the same as the computational power that’s actually used. It’s not hard to imagine: one can program a computationally powerful bot to only dance variations of the hokey pokey, while a bot with less computational power can be programmed to discover mathematical proofs.
This is a fallacious approach to quantifying intelligence, but obviously it’s perfect for clickbait.
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the myth that cats are not social animals really needs to die. cats are social, but they are just different in the ways they exhibit it than dogs.
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It also means they have to maintain more complex social relationships with other animals than “run away from it, eat it or f**k it?” That means reading moods, coordinating actions, communicating intent, etc.
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also their facial structure is almost designed to make us go awwwwwwwwwwwwww
people talk about intelligent design, but what about ADORABLE design?!
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I read somewhere – maybe here on BB? – that if its owner dies, a cat will start to eat the corpse much sooner than a dog will. Surely that’s proof that cats have a more profound gastronomical appreciation than do their canine counterparts.
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Cats were more accidentally tamed and bred then dogs.
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Uh huh. Sooo murderous!
I can’t take the beliefs of a psychologist terribly seriously. That’s how we got eugenics.
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All I know is, most cats wouldn’t deign to join Mensa.
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Nope, it’s been debunked serval times by @Grey_Devil. Cats are picky eaters, but dogs are not.
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Glad to know i don’t have to jump in here and post that link a 3rd time lol
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I expected more vitriol here. You all must hate your pets. Also, dogs.
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