Cat Owners Have Higher IQs

counselheal.com ^ | May 30, 2014 06:56 PM EDT | Christine Hsu

[BenLurkin]

The findings revealed that cat lovers scored significantly higher on intelligence tests compared to their dog-loving counterparts. However, dog owners tend to be more energetic, obedient and outgoing than cat lovers, according to Live Science.

Researcher Denise Guastello, a psychology professor at Carroll University, said at an annual Association for Psychological Science meeting in Chicago, that the average cat owner is more reserved, perceptive, tolerant and better at breaking rules than the average dog owner.

[patriot08]

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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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[patriot08]

The above is from my ‘homepage’.
Please see it for photos of our collection of cats. :)

[Nevadan]

Well then, I will consider myself in good company.

[Right Brother]

What cat lovers don’t realize is that the only thing preventing cats from killing and eating their owners is their small size.

[a fool in paradise]

[bicyclerepair]

Babs Streisand.

The cat owners I know voted Ø. NOT CONVINCED!

[Newtoidaho]

“better at breaking rules than the average dog owner”

well, they got that right in my case anyway.

[PapaBear3625]

We owned dogs when I was a kid, and it fell to me to shovel up their poop from the lawn and bury it. And bathe them and remove ticks. Cats are a lot less work. They bury their poop and clean themselves. I like dogs, but I've never owned one as an adult.

Which makes cats a better choice for professionals who are not home that much. So it's not so much the case that "smart people prefer cats" as "two-income couples have no time to properly care for a dog".

[Gay State Conservative]

This is my little fella,""Whiskers".And yes,my IQ is 145.

[jeffc]

IDK, I know two cat owners/lovers and they’re both bat-shite crazy!

[Gay State Conservative]

Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish Proverb

I'm Irish and I don't like cats.Far,*far* too aloof.Give me a dog who'll lick my face and fetch a Frisbee any day!

[BitWielder1]

Paid for by the Cat Owner's Association of America?
As a Cat owner I wouldn't mind believing this study but I'm too smart to fall for such flattery.

[darkwing104]

The combination of cats and dogs (complementary forces) bring balance and harmony.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

servant to the cat.

Wait...what? I have dogs now - actually my wife and kids do, and I love them, but that means that at least once a day, we walk around with our dogs outside, and then they stand expectantly, watching to make sure we carefully collect their poop. We must take care to leave them with other attendants if we intend to be gone from the house longer than a single period of daylight, or they will destroy our house. If that isn't the epitome of servitude, nothing is.

When I just had cats, I threw their litter out and replaced it once a week. When I left for the weekend, the cats barely noticed. They're cool, efficient little predators, affectionate when they feel like it, they don't want or need attention like dogs - yeah, any dog owner pointing fingers at cat owners has the freedom to kennel his dogs outside - and most of us don't.

[a fool in paradise]

Of course, you could always leave the pets at home...

[Finny]

LOLOLOL!!! That cat!

[ansel12]

It makes sense, I like them both equally, but the pool of cat owners is going to have fewer mouth breathing idiots in it than the pool of dog owners.

Dog owners might be thinking of the themselves and their friends and family when they think of the average dog owner, but they also know that it is almost mandatory for the knuckle dragger low IQ crowd to also have a dog, or dogs.

That low end crowd among the dog owners, rarely has a house cat as a pet, and usually doesn’t even like them because they seem too mysterious and subtle for the mouth breathers.

[a fool in paradise]

That smarts!

[catnipman]

It’s not surprising about the IQ of cat owners. A cat owner has to be smarter than their cat to have any chance at all to get their cat to behave.

[Salamander]

LOL