Which animal is smarter: cats or dogs?

Well it depends on what you mean by smarter?? My dogs definitely understand more human language and commands and tehy definately care more about me. But somethimes I think my cat is just too smart to care what i say or do...lol

Actually, cats are smarter. In a battery of intelligence, dogs will get most of them, because they respond instantly to people, unlike cats who are independent, and do their own thing. In a problem solving test however, a cat was put in a box full of levels and buttons. If the cat pushed a button, and opened the box, it would be put back in, and the first thing the cat would do was push the same button to get it to open again. Dogs failed those tests. Your average dog needs a lot of repetition to get things down.

And cats understand just as much english.

OH come on Keith, you have been a TC for a while now and you know this is a question that is over ask. And there is no answer for it. Cats and dog are of equal intelligence it is all in how the owners of said animals view which is smarter.Cat owners say cats and dog owners say dogs. I say both are smart.

Judging the relative intelligence of cats and puppies is like figuring out that's greater watching--there is simply no longer so much groundwork for evaluation. Psychologists have a difficult adequate time bobbing up with a tradition-blind IQ experiment for people, who all belong to the equal species; designing a species-blind experiment for puppies and cats is nearly unattainable. What folks take to be indicators of intelligence of their pets almost always are simply specialised survival competencies that say not anything approximately innate brainpower. A cat, for illustration, is a lot more dexterous with its paws than a puppy. This dexterity fascinates cat enthusiasts, who additionally cite the cat's mythical standoffishness as evidence of its intellectual superiority. The puppy, then again, is a lot more of a social animal; puppy advocates declare this proves the puppy is extra civilized, ergo, extra sensible. Animal ethologists (they are the gurus on this line of labor) regard such arguments as garbage. Cats are loners due to the fact that they've regularly hunted on my own--one mouse would possibly not feed multiple cat. Without his nimble paws, a cat could not nook, capture, and devour his prey. Dogs, although, hunted in packs due to the fact that they picked on recreation higher than they have been. They used their enamel to kill their prey and dismember the carcass. (Admittedly, no longer all cats hunt on my own--lions do not, for illustration--however allow's no longer make this dialogue any longer complicated than it already is.) Ethologists do not even love to weigh one breed in opposition to one other, inside the equal species. If a bloodhound smells greater, or a greyhound sees greater--good, that is what they have been bred for. But obviously, you cry, there have got to be a few solution to examine cats and puppies. Maybe, however it hasn't grew to become up but. Obedience and trainability don't seem to be regarded safe measures of intelligence. Newborn cats open their eyes just a little faster than puppies do, however the puppy will get into cast meals faster than the cat. Overall, dogs and kittens develop into maturity at close to same charges. Mama cats rest room teach their younger, and mama puppies do not, however that does not turn out some thing.

Neither. They are both intelligent in their own ways and each show it differently. Dog have the unique ability to understand some of our words and gestures, we each understand what the other is trying to tell us for the most part, and dogs have developed their barking as a way to communicate with us. The same can pretty much be said for cats, except cats aren't always out to please us like dogs are. Cats also developed meowing as a way to communicate with us.

Dogs have larger brains, I vote for dogs.

cats for sure