{"id":2220,"date":"2017-09-11T04:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2017-09-11T04:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:21:46","slug":"mindful-monday-the-intelligent-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2220","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Monday \u2013 The Intelligent Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"How smart is your cat? Of course there\u2019s the age-old question, which is smarter a dog or a cat? As they say, dog\u2019s have masters, cats have staff. Dogs come when they\u2019re called, cats take a message and get back to you. And psychologists are beginning to figure out why cats, even though they may actually be smarter than dogs in some was, can\u2019t be trained to obediently work as dogs do. Ever hear of a drug cat or a rescue cat? However, cats are known to solve harder problems than dogs can\u2014that is if they want to.<\/p>\n

You might enjoy reading this article by Dr. Berit Brogaard and grad student Kristian Marlow on how the cat’s and the dog’s brains work. For example, a cat\u2019s brain has about twice as many neurons as a dog\u2019s. And cats have longer-lasting memories than dogs do. So why aren\u2019t cats being put to work to do good?<\/p>\n

Cats do help and give on their own terms and without training. We\u2019ve reported here \"\"incidents where cats have become self-prescribed mentors to younger cats or ailing cats\u2014even other animals. Cats have become heroes\u2014alerting their family to danger, fighting to protect someone or another animal. Some say that cats are too smart to become enslaved by humans, but they certainly can act on their own when inspired to do so.<\/p>\n

So what makes cats difficult or impossible to train? While cats can evidently solve more complex problems than dogs can, they\u2019re more impulsive and have less patience than a dog. And there\u2019s the motivation factor. Dogs are much more social than cats. While the dog follows the pack leader\u2019s lead, a cat will make the choice as to whether he wants to comply and when.<\/p>\n

Learn more about this study here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-superhuman-mind\/201302\/how-smart-is-your-cat-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How smart is your cat? Of course there\u2019s the age-old question, which is smarter a dog or a cat? As they say, dog\u2019s have masters, cats have staff. Dogs come when they\u2019re called, cats take a message and get back … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220"}],"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=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}