This is inspired by, but different than the “When Dogs Eat a Person…” thread.
On a radio show, I once heard a claim from a dog person who offered as proof of dogs’ superior virtues, that a study showed that when single pet owners die at home, they are likely to be devoured by cats quicker than dogs. Supposedly, dogs will hold off until they are starving before feasting on their beloved owner’s corpse. Cats, however, will start chowing down with the first pangs of hunger because their deceased owner is nothing but a pile of meat to them.
I call bullshit, but who knows. Does such a study exist? What are your thoughts?
My proof is that cats are smarter than dogs is quite simple:
An owner has a 90 pound dog and starts to yell at the dog “Bad dog!”, the dog will slink off in the corner. There’s a reason why we never bred 90 pound cats for pets:
Bad cat! Scratching the couch up like that. Get off the couch right now! Don’t look at me like that. Stop stalking me. Don’t you dare pounce. Aaaahhh!
The cats have a deal with us: If we keeping opening cat food cans, they won’t devour us in our sleep. We keep our side of the bargain. They’ll keep their side of the bargain.
Dogs like the concept of the Pet/Owner relationship. Cats are much more comfortable with the Predator/Pray relationship.
To be fair. Cats are a lot smaller than dogs and have faster metabolisms. A dog might be more able to go without food for longer periods of time than a cat.
When a cat eats a person
Don’t want to dine on nothing else
He’ll trade all the tuna
For the good thing he’s found
If they’re spoiled he can’t taste it
Can’t be nothing wrong
Turn his back on his Friskies
Just to scarf 'em down
I love cats, and have one. She bites a lot, in affection or in a primal desire.
They are affectionate kind animals, very spontaneous.
But I have heard of them eating babies, left unattended or untrained not to.
They do not know the rules we do, no one taught them. They just go on gut instinct, and do not mean by it, and are not thinking as if it is a moral issue.
Maybe they do eat dead people who knows? But if you die outside, most things would eat you.
We live in an animal world and we are blessed by them. They are good, in every way. In a primal world, when we didn’t have appartments, animals cleaned up.
If it would not be them it would be the bugs, or maybe a killer.
We bury people. They did not. The world did not start out our way.
We should try to save the polar bears. They bless us and influence fate in good ways, like singing whales. But they would eat us if we were dead, and we kill plenty of animals.
Ummm … What? A polar bear won’t wait until you’re dead to eat you, it will eat you the first chance it gets. You defintely shouldn’t keep polar bears as pets.
And cats don’t eat babies, they just suck their breath.*
So, how many cases of being licked to death by a cat occur annually in the United States? I’m guessing it’s round about zero, but I’m open to a cite that shows otherwise.
And which of these is more likely to be thrown out into the snow as a result?
My scientific observation of cats and dogs has led me to the startling conclusion that dogs are generally better at doing dog things and cats are generally better at doing cat things. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to call one smarter than the other.
okay, okay…so a few babies have to be sacrificed to properly train the family cat! You can always make another baby, but properly trained cats are hard to come by…
