{"id":1956,"date":"2017-05-09T03:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2017-05-09T03:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:22:44","slug":"newsday-tuesday-okay-whos-smarter-cats-or-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 Okay, Who\u2019s Smarter\u2014Cats or Dogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1092\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1092\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LilySeptember-001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LilySeptember-001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LilySeptember-001-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LilySeptember-001-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LilySeptember-001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think that most dedicated cat people will agree that cats are every bit as smart as dogs\u2014maybe even smarter. But they use their intelligence or thinking abilities in a very different way.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new study out that says cats and dogs are pretty much on equal ground as far as intelligence. The research team studied the way the animals\u2019 minds work when it comes to memory\u2014and how long the cat and the dog can remember. They discovered that dogs remember for only a few minutes where cats can recall from memory for many hours.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a double-edged sword, isn&#8217;t it? I sure don&#8217;t want Lily to remember that I accidentally stepped on her tail or paw. But I&#8217;d love it if she&#8217;d remember that I do feed her every day on schedule and she doesn&#8217;t have to be underfoot while I&#8217;m moving around the kitchen getting her meal together.<\/p>\n<p>According to one study, evidently episodic memory is viewed as being related to <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lilyadam-024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lilyadam-024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lilyadam-024-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>introspective function of the mind and their results, as they deciphered them, \u201cmay imply a consciousness in cats.\u201d A consciousness in cats? Most of us suspected that, didn&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s really frightening is when a cat is smarter than his people and sometimes it seems that way. Have you ever had your cat sit and just stare into your eyes as if she is reading your mind or stealing your thoughts or even infiltrating your brain with thoughts of \u201cfeed me,\u201d \u201cpet me,\u201d \u201cgive me a treat!\u201d<br \/>\nHere\u2019s the link to one of the intelligence studies. Read it if you dare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/25\/cats-dogs-equally-intelligent-new-research\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/25\/cats-dogs-equally-intelligent-new-research\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that most dedicated cat people will agree that cats are every bit as smart as dogs\u2014maybe even smarter. But they use their intelligence or thinking abilities in a very different way. There\u2019s a new study out that says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1956\">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\/1956"}],"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=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}