Cats and Dogs: Which is Smarter?

Dogs and cats are both advanced hunters among terrestrial mammals, and their IQs could not be low.

Otherwise, cats and dogs would not have achieved their current status, becoming human's friends at the top of the food chain.

They can all understand human instructions

They can even learn to open doors when they are frustrated

One was domesticated by us, and the other is domesticating us

So, who is smarter, cats or dogs?

Dog: Woof woof, I'm smart, choose me, choose me

Cat: I'm smarter or not, it's none of your business, human

1. Cats don't need to be taught to use the toilet, while dogs do, so cats are smarter?

Cats instinctively bury their feces to mask their scent, which might reveal their presence to predators. This is an evolutionary behavior.

It's necessary to teach dogs to use the toilet, especially male dogs, who tend to mark their territory with urine.

This doesn't prove who is smarter.

2. Cats are solitary animals, while dogs are social animals, so cats are smarter?

Cats have better individual survival skills because they are solitary. Dogs don't necessarily have weaker survival skills, but their group cooperation and dog-to-dog relationship management are stronger. Dogs' social intelligence comes from wolves, which use group power to hunt animals much larger than themselves.

This also doesn't prove who is smarter.

3. Dogs understand instructions, while cats don't, so dogs are smarter?

This only shows that dogs have been more extensively domesticated, and dogs have been dependent on humans for 30,000 years, so they can better understand humans. Cats might be listening to not-doing, or they simply don't understand, but this isn't a basis for determining who is smarter.

4. Let's analyze their brains.

BBC once filmed a cat-dog IQ showdown, using cutting-edge scientific research from all over the world to compare cats and dogs. The comparison included brain capacity, neural index, and the number of neurons in the cerebral cortex.

The conclusion is: dogs are smarter than cats.

However, I still have doubts about this conclusion, how do cats see it? After all, in the late 19th century, cats were used to deliver mail, and the 37 cats delivered the letters within 24 hours.

How do you think?

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