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Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Not all cats are bad as long as the owner has them trained , but overall I agree Dogs are more loyal and useful & intelligent .

Are they really more intelligent though? I mean does doing what the human tells you to do make you more or less intelligent?

Vitale Shreve and Herculano-Houzel both said that it’s difficult to study intelligence using behavioral studies, which typically involve on animals performing tasks or solving puzzles. Also, few studies have directly compared dog and cat cognition, and in fact, only a handful of researchers study cats at all. Vitale Shreve said until scientists find the right methods to investigate dogs and cats together, it’s really not fair to make comparisons.

“There’s this perception of cats being untrainable or maybe hard to work with,” Vitale Shreve said. “Cats display a lot of individual variation and have distinct personalities, which make it hard for researchers to understand them.”

In summary, intelligence is a nuanced and complicated thing

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science...ed-a-scientist