Posted on 12/05/2017 7:36:59 PM PST by MtnClimber
Now THAT captures it precisely.
> Dogs are smart. Cats are sneaky smart. <
Excellent summation!
IMO...........
One of my dogs bit a black bear in the back leg to chase it off our deck and the bear never came back. Can a cat do that or is a cat too smart to try that? Inquiring minds want to know.
And an Aunt Sig....
And an Uncle Winchester.....
True story and a first-hand account of what I witnessed with my own eyes.
When I was 10 years old I found myself watching Great Dane that was barking up at my cross-breed Siamese/Tabby cat which was sitting on the back of a flatbed truck.
As I watched the great Dane barking furiously, my cat sat there nonchalantly licking his pawn like nothing was happening. After a few minutes, when my cat was tired of it, he literally lept off the truck onto the face of this Great Dane, locked its front paws onto the ears of his victim, and the proceeded to rake the shit out of that dog's face with his back claw.
Needless to say, that dog did nothing but whine and ineffectually try to get my cat off of its head. I watched in awe as my cat made that dog his bitch until he was tired of it. When my cat was done, that dip-shit dog could only watch that cat walk away with his tail held up high and never looking back.
LOLOLOLOLOL, this FR post of the day, you had me laughing.
When I worked in a truck shop my boss had a boxer that was a shop dog. One friend of ours had a yellow lab and another friend had a Rottweiler. The lab and the rottie were both noticeably smarter than the boxer. One of the games we played with them was throwing a brake diaphragm (similar to a frisbee) and all three dogs would race to fetch it. If you just pretended to throw it the lab and rottie would be out there a hundred yards looking for it. The dumb boxer would still be beside you staring at you waiting for you to throw it.
Intelligence is subjective.
Kittehs are plenty smart. They know how to train their humans to cater to their whims. I’ve been well-trained for years. LOL
Dogs live outside in many occasions in a dog house. So few cats have to do that that they chose to use the name for something else.
Dogs need people to let them out. Cats don’t need anyone.
rwood
True. Animals tend to be fully intelligent enough for their various needs.
I like both cats and dogs; they have different kinds of intelligence, and even different ways of expressing “affection” for their owners. These things can’t be measured/judged as greater or lesser, as if on a balance scale.
“Sneaky”
... and vindictive. They don’t get mad, they get even.
“The dumb boxer would still be beside you staring at you waiting for you to throw it.”
As dumb as a human,eh? :-)
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> Can a cat do that or is a cat too smart to try that? Inquiring minds want to know. <
Check out this brief video: Cat Rescues Little Boy From Dog Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhV8YoEUqA
LOL! No kidding!!
Now that’s corny!
Hey, I’m outnumbered! I don’t have a choice! LOL
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