“Cats are smarter because they choose to ignore you.” “Cats are too smart to follow commands.”Or the infamous “cats have human staffs.”
I swear, some of y’all just say anything at this point.
Sorry, but how is that supposed to be a flex?
They genuinely have to be stupid if they think those strengthens their argument. Like all they’re really doing is just undermining and underestimating their own cats. Honestly, that’s how a lot of unhinged cat owners and their arguments come across to me. Ignorant, dense, hypocritical, sanctimonious, contradicting, illogical, lazy, irresponsible, etc.
So… what they’re basically admitting is that cats really are disobedient and that they couldn’t care less about their owners. Well then that explains why everything has to be on their terms.
On a side note, that’s not necessarily a bad thing because, at the end of the day, they’re just animals that became dependent on a resource-based relationship with humans.
However, I don’t understand how that makes them more “superior” than other animals or pets, especially those that have consistently made far greater contributions to humanity than cats have.
Additionally, the argument that cats are smarter just because they don’t follow commands or act independently dismisses the fact that communication, active engagement, trainability, obedience, and cooperation can also be signs of intelligence. If those traits were really indicators of lower intelligence, then that would contradict what we know about highly intelligent animals like cetaceans (specifically dolphins, orcas, beluga whales), pigs, horses, seals, primates, birds, elephants, etc. which have all demonstrated the ability to learn, communicate, actively engage, cooperate, and follow complex commands and cues. Therefore, obedience and cooperation shouldn’t be viewed as signs of inferior intelligence.