scenario: Cat on west facing front porch enjoying the sun setting decides it’s too hot and scratches on the door to come in. I get up, let him in, and he goes directly to the back door so I can let him out. Versus an extra 15 ft to walk around the house.
I guess it depends if you would be smart enough to take the same shortcut
My old cat Alberta was the other way around. In the middle of winter, she’d demand to be let out the back door. Then it was a race to see who could make it to the front door first, to let her back in. I could just move almost directly across the house, she had to swing around the side of the house, down the driveway, and back up to the front door. Probably twice as far, over all.
She still won, though.
In the honor of countless other cat threads, my cat is certainly smarter than I am.
I go to work, he stays home and gets more sleep.
I cook food for myself every day, he is fed as many times as he wants, when he wants, because I’ll cave to the noises made.
I tend to eat too much food (it’s one of my joys), resulting in being overweight. He stops whenever he stops being hungry, and is at the perfect weight for his age/size/species according to the vet.
If I’m bored, I have to work / spend money on entertainment and distractions. He’s fully amused by packaging that comes for free from the stuff I buy, and if it isn’t enough, he can depend on us, his grandmother/father in law, and countless friends and extended family to buy him a wide range of toys. Or worst case, bother us until we entertain him.
If he wants to sleep, he’s allowed, with my wife preventing me from waking him up in revenge. If he wants to get me out of bed 3-5 times a night to come in and out, he gets a mulligan generally until my wife finally gives in and locks him in the spare bedroom around 2am.
Cat is much smarter than I am.
I’d say yep. Your cat is smarter than you. And all humans.
Only if I had a servant.
I was once told that a door is always on the wrong side of a cat.
Yes, your cat is smarter than you. In endless contests of wit and wisdom twixt cat and human the cats hold an unsurmountable lead.
I would agree with your infographic, but my NDA prevents me from further compromising my owner’s interests.
Your cat is a Dick.
I make my cat a bowl of wet food every morning, and kneel alongside my bed so he can sit up there and eat from the bowl as I hold it. I can’t shake the feeling that this is the only way he’ll eat.
So, yeah, they’re smarter than we are.
This statement is redundant.
Who here has a cat that deals with the humans’ poop?
Mine will come into the bathroom and look at me whilst I’m riding the porcelain bus, then look at her box, then back at me like “Why aren’t you acting like a cat?”
Clearly, it depends on whether your cat is particularly purrspicacious.
Since I feed my cat first thing in the morning after I get out of bed, he has decided that I need to be awakened to do so between 6 and 6:30. I am retired, and there’s no reason I need to be up that early. But there he is, up in my face (literally, he bats at my face, or at least the parts of it not covered by my CPAP mask). I grab him and toss him to one side, and he waits just long enough for me to start falling asleep before he starts in again.
I refuse to start getting out of bed until 7, so we spend at least half an hour playing this game. Then of course once I’m out of bed he walks around underfoot meowing piteously until I put his food bowl down. Right next to the still-full dry food dispenser.