Dogs really ARE smarter than cats: Canines have more than twice as many brain cells linked to

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 11/30/17 | Harry Pettit

[ifinnegan]

Excellent observations.

The way cats dig a hole, then defecate in to it, and then bury it, scooping dirt from both sides of the hole is intelligent but is not taught or learned. It’s pure instinct.

[shibumi]

Thanks, but no.

I’ve had my morning barf and cringe already.

[ifinnegan]

“Cats do walk through feces and urine in litter boxes and then track it around the house.”

That’s only because the litter box is an abnormal and unnatural constraint put on them. Even then, they bury their waste in a litter box, just like they do outside under natural circumstances.

The scenario you describe above is due to owners not cleaning their litter boxes. A cat would never do that under normal circumstances.

[goodnesswins]

Uh, one of our cats DOES know the word “treat”....also knows the word “outside”....he loves to go into our back yard...under supervision. I have tried teaching him to “SIT” for his treats....that he does NOT seem to get.

[faithhopecharity]

You’re very welcome. And most cats won’t demean themselvee doing tricks for inferior, servant species like humans. They leave the menial work for the dogs.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“boxes. A cat would never do that under normal circumstances.

Do mean if they were running around wild?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“boxes. A cat would never do that under normal circumstances.

Do mean if they were running around wild?

[ifinnegan]

“Do mean if they were running around wild?”

No. Just being allowed to go outside and do it.

Litter box makes them do it in the same place, which they wouldn’t do outside. They bury their poo and pee even in a litter box.

If owners don’t clean the litter box, what are they supposed to do?

[MayflowerMadam]

We have six cats and have to spell in front of them in some cases.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“If owners don’t clean the litter box, what are they supposed to do?”

Agreed. Unfortunately, this is how most cats live - and spread germs.

[JoeFromSidney]

My cats have learned that when my wife calls me from the kitchen they should get off my lap because I'm going to get up and go to dinner.

[patriot08]

Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse. - Heinlein

God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger. – François-Joseph Mery

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo Da Vinci

A loving cat can mend a wounded heart. - Anonymous

'No Heaven will not ever Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me'.- Epitaph on an ancient tombstone in England

< One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.- Pam Brown

What greater gift than the love of a cat? - Charles Dickens

Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~ Colette

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see. ~ Eleanor Farjeon

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain Notebook, 1894

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.” — Carl Van Vechten

To respect the cat is the beginning of the Aesthetic sense. — Erasmus Darwin

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. - Anon

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. - Tay Hohoff

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? - Fernand Mery

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ~ Robertson Davies

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats- unknown

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it...The cat covers it up if he can... - Paul Gallico

Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish Proverb

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[ifinnegan]

Yeah. It makes cats more neurotic than they naturally are.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You couldn’t keep our recently passed Bichon Frise from eating his crap.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

For instance, I had an Aussie for a number of years and at the mention of the words “outside” or “Treat” they would react appropriately because they recognized those words.

Here's a word that all dogs seem to know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdGhT2ZuXO8

[a little elbow grease]

Exactly .....

I'd go further with this with you but I'm talking to my boxer dog now........... and my wife is walking into the house to talk to the boxer too.

God loves animals.

Seriously............. more later.

THIS is a serious subject, and in my opinion............... if humans don't calm down and get their sh*t together............. we are out of luck.

JMO

[Rusty0604]

:-)

[faucetman]

It follows that dog people are smarter than cat people.

[Paisan]

Of course, cats are smarter.

Ever see a team of cats haul a sled through the snow?

[NImerc]

Wow that’s crazy, but neat. I have never seen that in my house, and I have actively tried to get my cats to respond to verbal communication. If you say their name they will look at you, or come to the room, but that’s about it. I can even go into the kitchen and grab a bag of anything at all and move it around, but if I so much as bump a bag of their treats they come running lol.