Cats don’t see you as cat, but also not as someone superior, they can see you as friend, but you have to gain it, if not, you are only an tin opener and food supply. They are anarchists by nature.
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falseWhite@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
he believes cats are semi-feral and that they think we are cats too
Ok, so it’s just something someone believes, it’s not very scientific…
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
falseWhite@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
They are more like little dictators.
What the article implies is that they do not understand that we are different species. The relationship between cats and humans is a whole other area. But I don’t believe cats are stupid or have somehow evolved to believe humans are the same species as them.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Certainly they are far from beeing stupid, but they simply don’t have an concept of leaders or hirarchy. You can even train them to do tricks, but it is more difficult as with dogs, not because they are more stupid, but because they must see a reason and have the desire to do it. It’s in their nature, in nature it’s up to their own strategy and decisions whether they’re going to eat or not, there’s no herd or a leader that tells them what to do. This is the difference with dogs, nothing to do with intellectual capacity, perfectly equivalent, females are usually somewhat smarter than males, but just as in dogs, there are individual differences, as it also happens with us humans.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
When I had a dog, I used to think my dog thinks he will grow just as big as me and will join my daily routine, which was a bit depressing when you think about it
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Ermmm actually you “just believe” the earth is round. /s /most obvious s
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tbf i don’t think my cat is 100% domesticated lol
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Probably this is yet another case of a journalist spinning yarn out of some poor researcher's paper summary.