Dogs!! Sorry, but I couldn’t resist posting this, which is quite old but I just found now, because I’m a dog person and love my two little girls:
It will cause outrage among some cat owners, but research suggests the pets are not as clever as some humans assumed – or at least they think in a way we have yet to fathom.
Psychology lecturer Britta Osthaus says cats do not understand cause-and-effect connections between objects. She tested the thought processes of 15 of them by attaching fish and biscuit treats to one end of a piece of string, placing them under a plastic screen to make them unreachable and then seeing if the cats could work out that pulling on the other end of the string would pull the treat closer.
Osthaus, of Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, said: "This finding is somehow surprising as cats regularly use their paws and claws to pull things towards them during play and hunting. They performed even worse than dogs, which can at least solve the parallel string task."
Chalk one up for man’s best friends!
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Disclaimer: I love cats too, I’m just a little afraid to get scratched, so I never had one, and having two dogs, we don’t think it would increase the level of peace to add a feline to the tribe.
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