smarter than dogs
@emilywickersham (56)
United States
September 24, 2007 8:34am CST
Here I go stirring things up again, but I am convinced cats are much smarter than dogs, in general. Here is my evidence: At night, if I sit in a room with the door open a crack, my dog (a toy poodle) will whimper and whine until I come and open it all the way. The cats will push it open with their paw, and if its closed, they'll knock with their paw. I even had one cat who would jump up and try to turn the knob! People think dogs are smarter because they're more trainable but that just makes them more submissive, not smarter.
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@Rosepetal (352)
• United States
24 Sep 07
I agree with you totally. My boyfriend and I are always disagreeing on this point. He thinks dogs are smarter, but I've had enough cats to know that cats are smarter. I had a cat that accidentally leaned against my phone message machine and activated my voice message. I watched him sit up attentively and listen to the recording. When the message ended, he started to push all the buttons on the machine with his paw, trying to find the one that activated my voice. To my amazement, he found it, and it didn't even take him that long. Yep, I think cats are smarter than dogs.
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@emilywickersham (56)
• United States
24 Sep 07
I love it! They're almost all smart, but the smartest cats I've ever had are Siamese. (The one who used to try to turn the doorknob with his paws was Siamese.)
@sicknickel (12)
• Canada
25 Sep 07
Cats are much smarter, want proof, leave your cat alone for a week. He or she will be fine, leave your dog alone for a week, you will have a horrible mess, and a destroyed house.
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
24 Sep 07
O yeah, I believe cats have smarter instincts than dogs. Take toilet habits. In my village, while dogs are usually spewing wastes and urine carelessly in the environment, cats have have the magnificience of covering its waste in soil, they are also very secretive on mating matters- you rarely see a cat mating but dogs are careless in those domains
