If ants have a brain level of 1...

[actuarial]

No life is as good as the life of an average cat.

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: Insomniator
Why don't we pick the smartest dog breed (no idea.. german shepard?) vs the smartest cat bread (main my excellent compatriot, pixie?) and go from there? My GF has a shitzu that is 100% retarded compared to my cats but i've known smarter of both species.

Poodles are known for intelligence.

Border collies are usually at the top of the most intelligent dog breed lists.
Here's one list.

1 Border Collie
2 Poodle
3 German Shepherd
4 Golden Retriever
5 Doberman Pinscher
6 Shetland Sheepdog
7 Labrador Retriever
8 Papillon
9 Rottweiler
10 Australian Cattle Dog


Now if you look around, you can certainly find a stupid version of any of these..

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Is the scale linear? I'd probably tend to use a logarithmic scale because I believe humans are orders of magnitude more intelligent than ants, cats or dogs. But on a linear scale I guess cats=2, dogs=3, but really they're both < 2, I just wanted to differentiate because dogs are smarter than cats.

Haha, I'm a nerd because I thought the exact same thing.

Same here..

lawl. ATOT ftw

Imo i never saw Ants as stupid. I thought they were pretty damned smart.

Anyways I think it would depend. I've seen some REALLLLY smart dogs, but I've also seen fucking stupid dogs (read: almost every single Maltese I've ever come acrosS)

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: So
Also, do whales go to 11?

Dolphins, not whales.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Dogs are born to obey. Wolves in the wild live in a pack and follow the alpha. Cats are born to be free, wild cats don't follow an alpha, rather they each have to think for themselves.

The fact that a dog can be trained to obey has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with the natural instincts of the animal.

well, at least dogs exhibit the ability to learn, which shows some level of intelligence. But of course, some of the greatest thinkers of our time have been cats.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: So
Also, do whales go to 11?

Dolphins, not whales.

So, mice are like, 15 then.

 

[jlee]

I'm going to stay out of this one. I can't stand most dogs, so my opinion is inherently biased.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: So
Also, do whales go to 11?

Dolphins, not whales.

So, mice are like, 15 then.

Bastard, I'd thought about putting mice in as well.
Then again, they don't really count as they're only projections into our dimension.

 

[KentState]

I have a dog that's considered to be very smart and yet somehow she keeps going over to the cats and getting slapped upside the head. IMO, they both can act very dumb.