{"id":1389,"date":"2016-07-13T05:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2016-07-13T05:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:52:06","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-so-you-think-your-cats-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 So You Think Your Cat\u2019s Smart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/belle-book-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Bella has good taste\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/belle-book-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/belle-book-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss Bella has good taste<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Kitty Lover News<\/em> lists the 10 smartest cat breeds\u2014among them are the Siamese, Abyssinian, Bengal, Singapura, Tonkinese, and Cornish Rex.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all had smart cats and we\u2019ve all seen our cats do what we consider smart things\u2014either because they figured out how to do it or they just happened to do it accidentally. But here are some cats caught doing some pretty clever things. According to Dr. Berit Brogaard, Cats have a greater capacity for complex problem-solving than dogs do. She says that dogs clearly have a higher social IQ than cats but cats can solve harder cognitive problems, if indeed they feel like it. Here\u2019s a fascinating article that describes the differences in the brains of cats versus dogs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-superhuman-mind\/201302\/how-smart-is-your-cat-1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-superhuman-mind\/201302\/how-smart-is-your-cat-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitty Lover News lists the 10 smartest cat breeds\u2014among them are the Siamese, Abyssinian, Bengal, Singapura, Tonkinese, and Cornish Rex. We\u2019ve all had smart cats and we\u2019ve all seen our cats do what we consider smart things\u2014either because they figured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}