Are cats smarter than dogs?

[jinduy]

dog
http://livedigital.com/ACbwBgB1pQ/content/25117/c2
(champion level dog)

vs

cat
http://livedigital.com/ACbwBgB1pQ/content/13534/c2

there's the footage. now vote!

cat bonus:
http://livedigital.com/ACbwBgB1pQ/content/728/c2

let's see a dog do that!

 

[PurdueRy]

:shocked: at the last one

 

[narcotic]

Cats are sort of smart, but they are ungrateful bustards.
Dogs are loving and loyal, maybe not the smartest on earth, but you gotta love those stupid little things they do sometimes (I'm sure you can find many videos with dogs guffy behaviour).

 

[BillyBatson]

i think cats are smarter but they are more independant and think different so say youw ere injured a dog might come to help even though he cant while a cat might hide out of fear or run away out of instinct

 

[PurdueRy]

Ever seen a "leadercat"? No?

/THREAD

 

[dugweb]

I'm curious to see if this thread gets locked... those are some pretty grose vids

anyways, I think billy batson just hit the nail on the head

 

[Continuity28]

This thread is definately biased.

You found a dog that takes a ****** where it's supposed to, and a cat that was trained by a human, and this is supposed to prove something?

There are dogs also trained to help the blind.

The point is, you can't measure how intelligent another animal is by human standards. All we can really tell from that kind of flawed test is they are way way way below us. And how else would you measure them? Brain mass vs body mass? Dogs win that one. That's not a solid test either. In the wild, I believe the only feline that hunts in packs are lions, whereas most animals related to dogs do. Does that say anything about intelligence? Maybe.

Again, you're looking at animals with a subjective HUMAN mind, we don't know which is smarter. Training them says nothing. You can train a human too - schooled vs unschooled, are you going to say one is inherantly smarter? If you take the unschooled person to school, they learn just the same.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Cats act much more for themselves and are much more careful, which I thinks leads most people to say they are smarter. I think dogs are the smarter animal, though, they respond more to training and have a better understanding of human social interaction, and I've seen dogs able to open a door and close it behind them, etc. etc. not to mention the dogs trained to be seeing-eye dogs or rescue animals.