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Cats have a much more complex understanding of human behaviour and just consider us harmless and boring enough to not bother.
As in your cat totally understands that your keyboard is special in a way and you don't want it disturbed, but couldn't give two shits about your wants. Or completely being aware of how unpleasant it is when they sit on you with their butthole in your face, but why not if that's what they want to do right now?
I think this is real and that most (not all) cats are smarter and more selfish than we think
Dogs are waaaaay more aware than most people seem to think. I think it's true of most animals. We just don't like to think about it.
This. My dog knows words that I didn’t teach him. I know people talk about pattern recognition and what not but that’s not all that different than human knowledge. I learn words by hearing them repeated too
I know how to read his body language and the tone of his barks to know what he wants. He will even show me, if I ask him.
I suspect he understands a lot more than I am capable of deciphering as well.
I stayed out later than normal one time and missed one of my dog's walks. He tore up a newspaper while staring at me. Rip, rip, rip. He knew I spent time looking at newspapers so he chose to destroy one, while heavily implying that if I fucked up his schedule again he would rip ME up.
Aw, I can't help but be on his side.
Dogs brains activate the same regions when the see human faces that activate in our brains. These same regions don't activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.
Dogs are far more in tune with us that they are with their own species.
Some of the oldest human archaeological sites have dog remains among the humans. Domestication of the dog was going on far far earlier than the first evidence we have for domestication of the first food species.
We have evolved together as two mutually symbiotic species.
I agree, but that's not a conspiracy. Scientifically speaking, we know that animals are smarter than most people admit.
The conspiracy here is that cats are not just smarter than we think but actually one of the smarter animals in general and they are also very internal and just don't care about us so they don't exhibit it in ways that we recognize.
Some cats are extremely smart and very devious (looking at you, mother's cat) and some are. Well. I love them. But I've met cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.
That's rare though! Most are pretty smart and know how to convince us to do everything for them! And I always will do my best for them.
Ah, so you've met a Persian cat. Pretty cats, but at what cost?