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What's that, Lassie? Dogs show signs of self-awareness according to peer-reviewed academic study?

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Re: Weird

> No, cat's aren't stupid.

Definitely not. They just don't conform to the "hey pet, do something to amuse me" idea humans usually have about animals living with them. Cats are solitary individualists with a character and feelings, and thus can become your best friend or your worst nightmare, depending on how you treat them, just like people.

On the other hand dogs always try to fit in a pack, and if you're deemed to be the pack leader, the dog will obey you without question ("the faithful dog" illusion - Just try to lose the "pack leader" attribute and see what happens, when your "faithful" dog, now the leader, tries to bite you into submission...).

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