Are Cats Smarter Than Dogs

While pet owners may have loads of anecdotal data to show that cats are smarter than dogs or vice versa theres little scientific evidence to.

Are cats smarter than dogs. Dogs are likely smarter than cats. A team of researchers counted the number of neurons in dog and cat brains. In fact it is the other way around.

Cats have also made themselves useful to humans by killing pest rodents. The study is also significantly limited because there wasnt a way to test every breed of dogs or cats. Their findings published in.

The information provided in this study isnt true for every breed of dogs or cats. Dogs for example are easily trained to follow commands. Either way like we already said both of.

Then the logical implication is that. Dogs are smarter than cats. Furthermore the research didnt take into account that completely different breeds inside a species differ significantly in cognitive means.

Researchers have found that dogs have around twice the number of neurons in their cerebral cortex than cats. Since dogs are generally easier to train the assumption is that the dog is smarter than the cat. One study says that dogs may be the smarter domestic animals due to their social behaviors.

Both species will develop bonds with their humans through regular interaction and behave in ways that may not be as easy to test in a laboratory environment. It seemed so cut and dried when last year researchers at Vanderbilt University declared that yes dogs were in fact smarter than cats. For instance a German Shepherd is loads smarter than a Bulldog.