[MtnClimber]

Doggie article.

[BenLurkin]

Dogs good.

Raccoons bad.

[9YearLurker]

Something only an academic could believe...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Dogs are smart.

Cats are sneaky smart.

[tinyowl]

Wow lots of ‘Dogs are smarter than cats’ posts in the last few days. You’d almost think cats were them thar stupid Trump voters, and dogs were woke.

[Bullish]

Oh boy, then why can’t dogs bury their own shit?

[libstripper]

Be careful, very careful. You’ve just ignited a quasi-religious war between canophiles and felophiles, a conflict almost as irreconcilable as the 30 Years War. Indeed a fanatical felophile might even try a Gunpowder Plot against you. Take care to secure and patrol all entrances to your basement.

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.

[EdnaMode]

My cat disagrees.

[Trump20162020]

Having owned both, cats never seemed all that bright to me. I can understand liking them better than dogs as animals or pets, but saying they’re more intelligent than dogs seems absurd.

[cabojoe]

Yeah but my cat can beat up my chesapeake.

[WMarshal]

And in other news: while dogs distracted their owners the cats killed them.

This study is a bit overblown. There are other categories of intelligence and there are likely alternative adaptations in different animals that increase intelligence. Biology is a messy analog system and you can’t say because one biological trait has an advantage that whatever species has it iare superior.

[Liberty Valance]

Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut

[SpaceBar]

Intelligence is hard to define in humans...

Actually it's pretty easy to quantify by a number of criteria, but isn't flattering to certain population subgroups, so they make it sound all murky, nebulous, and ill-defined in humans.

[kanawa]

[Kickass Conservative]

All this time I thought our Chow was a Dog.

She is dumber than a Box of Barbara Boxers unless Food is part of the equation.

Wait a minute...

[SpaceBar]

Dogs and cats are different precisely because they are built for different lifestyles. Cats have a more developed visual cortex to hunt fast moving prey, dogs are "sociable" (as perceived by humans) and behave well in groups because they operate/hunt best in communal packs.

[Osage Orange]

Depends on the dog..............

IMO...........

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

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.

[tumblindice]

"Indubitably."

[Forgotten Amendments]

Beavers are smarter than people.