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Study Pretty Much Irrefutably Shows Cats are Dumber than Dogs(!)
by Josh Clark | November 30, 2010
Having long suspected it, I was heartened to hear that cats are less intelligent than dogs are. Yes. Ahhh. Bask in it.
Far less, actually, at least in relation to the correlation between brain size and sociability. This small brain size is, it appears, why cats are aloof, say researchers at Oxford University’s Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, a group who are not known to be slouches when it comes to compiling reliable and solid data that dog people can reasonably gloat over.
How to wash a cat, version 1 (the first 1:10 could be fast-forwarded): How to wash a cat, version 2 (might contain a single profanity – please do not watch if profanities are uncomfortable to you): It doesn’t have to be this way, however. The following video suggests that you: 1- Start bathing your cat [...]
Here is a very sad but sadly frequent occurrence:
American Airlines Launches Investigation into Dead Puppies
The puppies were loaded into the luggage area of a passenger jet, where seven of them died from exposure….
Last night, as my roommate was dutifully scooping out her cat’s litter box, she mentioned briefly contemplating buying a cat toilet training seat. I laughed it off initially, but now that I’ve done some research on feline potty training, I might encourage her to go for it. Aside from the laborious scooping, she’d save a bundle of cash if successful; the New York Times City Room blog estimated that litter costs about $165 per cat each year. On top of that, I can think of no better novelty fact than being able to say that your cat uses the toilet.
Earlier this month, Tokyo’s International Food Machinery and Technology Expo became a regular Robo Kitchen Stadium. Who will win? Okonomiyaki Robot or Chef Robot?
Thanks to newslite for this article about cats and how smart they may or may not be. They tested kittehs by placing a fishy treat on one end of a string to see if they would realize that pulling the string closer to them meant it was treat-time. They passed! Then the researchers placed a second, unfishy string in beside the first one and found that the cats were just flat out confused.
They did previous tests on dogs and they worked it out no problem. I think this clearly shows that cats are the stupidest stupid heads that ever walked the earth.
OK – so now for my real opinion on the matter. Why are researchers at Canterbury Christ Church University messing around with this kind of “study?”
No seriously, I’m fine — as is my car and (presumably) my cat. But this is just the sort of claim you might hear a lot of in the future if researchers at Charles University in Prague are really onto something.
A quick scan of the news is often enough to confirm that we’re living in the end times: melting ice caps, failing economies, nuclear weapons tests and celebrity gossip covering all four top spots on the Yahoo front page. But hey, if you’re like me, you distract yourself with something else and get on with your life. Today, however, the news out of China is that they have a cat with wings.
If you’ve ever sat through a viewing of Stephen King’s “Cat’s Eye,” you know that cats don’t actually climb into the beds of child actresses and suck their breath out — you’re thinking of tiny wall trolls.
Still, a great deal of concern persists among cat owners whenever there’s a new baby in the household. Will the cat and the baby become fast friends, or will one try to eat the other? How’s a person to be both a responsible parent and a decent pet owner?
According to an article from the Associated Press this week, the key is understanding how a cat reacts to the arrival of a newborn. Just think about the noises associated with a new baby. Think about all the curious new smells — the utter chaos that a baby brings into a household.
Permanent Kittens Flat-Out Refuse to Grow
by Charles W. Bryant | April 1, 2009
Just when you think you’ve seen it all comes a story from the “Felines: Out Of Love” society — a cat-loving genetic research group based out of The University of Wisconsin at Sheboygan. The scientists there have designed what they’re calling the “Permanent Kitten.” Yes, this is exactly what you think it is — felines that remain in a permanent state of arrested “kittenness.”
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