Why cats can't be as loyal as dogs?

the cats just don't care

i wonder why it is so?

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All cats think they're a god, and better than humans.

This part doesn't have anything to do with your question, but cats are just NASTY, with all the things they'll leave on the floor or ground until it's cleaned up by a human. Cats are also extremely cruel, the way they'll torture their prey, making the best option for the prey sometimes, a quick mercy death.

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neither wolves nor cats really bother to kill something clean before eating. cats torture their victims canines usually eat them to death and the animal dies of shock. dogs because they're too stupid too, cats because its fun. but how often does a dog get to kill something vs a cat.

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Cats don´t think that they are better than humans.. they KNOW it ;)

Did you know that the Bible is in fact a wattered down translation for us humans to make us feel better about ourselfs?
In the original Bible it says in the Book of Genesis: "..and then HE created man, so they would build
cardboard boxes for HIS favourite creation and rub their bellies, whenever they feel like it."

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The Holy Mother from whom all cats descend was saved by Clister the Stupid, who was frozen in time and gaveth of his life that we might live. Who shall one day returneth to lead us to Bearth, the promised land.
"And Clister spake, lo I shall lead you to the Bearth, and there we shall open a temple of food, wherein shall be sausages, and savory doughnuts, and all manner of bountiful things. And those who serve shall wear hats of great majesty, yea though they be made of coloured cardboard and have humourous arrows through the top.

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It's still arrogance, think or know, same difference.

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Because cats aren't delicious.

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they can be with the right sauces

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concur

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Dogs were forcefully domesticated while cats have got used to human presence over the time. With the aggriculture spreading, the crops attracted most of the rodents and thus their own predators - wild cats. People then stocked their farmed crops in granaries which was like supermarket for mice and rich presence of them attracted cats closer to the human dwelling. And people liked cats for killing the pest destroying their stocks.

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the currently preferred theory (honestly without alot of evidence to justify the switch, but never the less) is that dogs just sortof happened too. they claim less agressive wolves kinda learned to hang around humans eating garbage, then humans decided having something that barked when real wolves, strangers and other dangerous animals showed up was useful and gave them a spot near the fire
and then everything else(running and hunting together dogs+humanz 4 eva, task oriented breeding ect) came later vs the old theory you mentioned of "hunting with wolves would be aswome lets steal a baby and teach it to like us"

the difference is more that the dogs and human thing went somewhere, the cats and human thing more or less stayed near that first stage, and unlike dogs cat breeding has been cosmetic more than function and much more recent with less time to do anything.

(cats were more "hey I found a roomba. it smelled the dust and wandered in can we keep him? [some time later] lets paint the roomba purple [some time later] i'd like a fuzzier roomba" compared to dog's "hey a roomba showed up..[some time later] we've amped up the roomba's sensors so it can find my keys while it dusts [some time later] lets give the roomba a screwdriver so it can fix stuff too...[some time later]...lets teach r2d2 to run games on his harddrive and give it a few new paintjobs....

and then somebody posts a forum question asking why is johnny5 always following me wanting to play tictactoe no matter what I'm trying to do in a vaguely annoying way while all my roomba ever wants to do is wander around eating dust and sometimes get its fuzzy back scratched...when it feels like not when i want to pet it?(and if he wants to be scrached it doesn't matter what I'm doing))

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Because cants are independent dont accept blame plus they are smart enough to dont do what we want, instead they do they want.

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If cat was smart enough they would know that their life is between our hands... lol

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Because they're assholes and i hate them.

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That's a silly question. My cat is very loyal to our family and she does not like strangers very much. Don't generalize the cats. Generalizations is never true.

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I believe pretty much any animal can become loyal overtime. If you need examples then you likely need an education as well.

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what about pythons? when will they start loving me? cause if I had one I'd be keeping a weight on the cage so it doesn't get out and strangle me in my sleep

I'll give you any mammals though.

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Here, take my feel

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Because you keep abusing them for the sake of making youtube videos!

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One must suffer,before reaching Immortality. Obey to the God of Internet.

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Cus they're cats and want to destroy humans.

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I have a loyal cat although it is rare

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Same here. Rare, but not impossible to find.

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Cats are domesticated only for 4000-5000 years since Egyptians began with it so they are still "wild" Dogs are domesticated for 18000 years - oldest known fossils are from Europe. (dogs origin is from Gray Wolf)

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they recently found a slightly older seperate line of cat bones in asia I think, but cats are still noobs

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Why women can't be as loyal as dogs?

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good thing that no one saw your message yet right? ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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.. has been spoken.

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Because Hachikō

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I volunteer at our local no-kill shelter (just got back, actually), and I'd have to disagree. Many of the "regulars"/long-time feline residents recognize and greet me when I come in. Additionally, my actual cat is very lovable and loyal to me. Here he is on my shoulder.

I think it's more of a case-by-case basis than people make it out to be. Every cat has a different personality, as does every dog.

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My cat pretty much follows me wherever i go. If i'm on the computer, she'll be sitting on top of me, if i'm downstairs at the table, she'll be to the side, if i'm in the bathroom and she didn't get in, she'll be at the door waiting.
So yeah, it depends on a case by case basis.

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my brother's cat does that, oddly so did my aunt's childhood guinipig aparently. and i've found rabbits to have far far more personality than you'd expect.

and its just my brother specifically not any random human. the cat loves him but ignores strangers and only grudgingly tolerates his girlfriend's presence and attempts to pet him


the problem is many cats arent easy to read and are perfectly willing to go weeks without actually acknowleging your existance even when they're your friend. and when they like you they can behave like that little kid who pulled on the girl's pigtails because he liked her. some cats show their love by sleeping on your face or sitting on the keyboard when you're trying to type or leaving dead things in your shoes. humans and dogs coexisted much longer so they're far more emotive

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Cats are crazy loyal - as long as you've earned it. But most people can't read them the way they can read dogs.

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+1


cats as a species have far less time with humans in addition to the hadndicap being natually solitary creatures.

dogs have been with us so long they follow our eyes and instinctively know what pointing means, thats so specifically human a gesture I mean cats get pointing too, but more of a learned thing they pick up on. and for most of their shared time with humans cats as work animals were more along the line of "tamed enough to coexist with humans" than the direct interaction dogs needed as work animals. Its no wonder they're not as easy to read

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Cats <3
Gotta love 'em!

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"I AM A MOTHERFUCKING PTERODACTYL!
HERE TO PTERO-YOU A NEW ASSHOLE"

I like that site's code's commenting, but only that one part, the rest of it isn't funny


(that cat murder thing actually is backed up by science, if anything those numbers were lowballed compared to other environemtal impact studies on songbird populations.)that is exactly what we domesticated and bred them for afterall. a cat that only hunted when hungry was hardly worth having. This way one cat does the work of a dozen ("you made me this way, and now.. you want it to stop"(well not birds but its hard to breed that specific, like how herding dog breeds happily herd small children in addition to sheep if you let them))

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My female cat is a very efficient murderer. She averaged about 4 "presents" a week, on multiple occasions those presents were actually live Garter snakes, with surprisingly little to no damage done to the snakes(which I set free when she wasn't looking).

My cat is freaking awesome and I wouldn't even dream of trading her for any dog in the world!

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thats closer to the statistics i've heard in the past

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Cause dogs > cats :D

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each animal has its attributes.

cats are cool, when cats fall down or miss their jump they can totally act like they meant to do that and were in fact proud of how sucessfully they did exactly as intended.
when a dog does it he flails skidding on the tile and bellyflops into a wall and then sits there cringing for a second hoping nobody saw before sneaking out of the room in the most obvious way possible.

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Meh.

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they show their loyalty differently to dogs i guess

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Cats can be loyal but only if you deserve their loyalty dogs are just stupid and blindly follow anyone, I have 3 dogs at my house and they all crave attention and bark and make noises when they see me, they also don't listen when I tell them off for doing something bad they know its bad because they look sad when I catch them doing it but they keep doing the same thing, Also they stink, Only bad thing I can say about my cat is that he has too much hair and he can be annoying when he sits on me and I want to move xD

So for me Cats easily beat Dogs.

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just the fact your cat isn't territorially attacking trying to drive you out of his house shows more loyalty than words can express

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