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This is how he sleeps.
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Illinois Department of Natural Resources keeping an eye on recent bear sightings
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is monitoring black bear sightings in Lake County recently.
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Orca attacks on boats aren't out of revenge, killer whale experts say. They're just having fun.
Killer whales have sunk three boats off the coast of Spain and Portugal so far this year. But experts agree that the behavior is not malicious.
Orcas still at it!
? Whales just wanna have fun! ?
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Pretty Asian girls are my favorite animals.
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@Spartan why the grimace? Do you not approve of my cats keto diet?
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Why would anyone try anything so twisted???
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Why you putting posts in my mouth?
Maggie Raptor will bite your ass.
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I was way out of line!
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Not really. Maybe it's just cats, in general, I disapprove of.
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I used to not like cats, until I realized the asshole cats I always came into contact with were owned by assholes.
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"So I says to the guy, 'Look. You can give me the fish or I can just wreck your boat and take it.' "
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Studies have shown cat owners are mainly the lazy loner introverted types, hence the crazy cat lady stereotype.
Dogs have more than twice the brain cells as cats so are naturally going to be a draw to smarter people. Cats are for the dummies.
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Ok moron. I love my cat and dog. The dog would kill you and the cat would help.
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Your dog will not kill me. That's just the crazy cat lady part of you talking.
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If you want to advertise to other men on a football message board how swole you are and how you only own manly pets, keep it the **** out of this thread
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? I love how you try so hard to be an edgelord.
Yeah, I know the study you're referencing and it had a much larger sample size of dog owners, for one, and that dog owners are generally more agreeable.
Secondly, studies show cats have more cognitive ability than dogs, and generally are able to understand more words. But this constantly flip flops based on the study. Essentially, dogs are better at being dogs and cats are better at being cats. There's also studies that show cats have double the neurons of dogs showing higher intelligence and that cats are better problem solvers. It really just depends on the bias of whoever's doing the study. Most don't have a large enough sample size. From personal experience, my cat is only below my German shepherd and maybe my boxer as far as training and listening.
I have nothing against dogs, have had them all my life growing up and would probably have one now if my apartment allowed it, and I was home more often to give it proper attention. And even then, they have a limitation on dog breeds, and I wouldn't be able to have an American Staffordshire terrier, boxer (best & sweetest dog I ever had), or rott, which are the three I'd lean towards. Especially the blue terrier. Those are gorgeous dogs.
Plus I refuse to have a dog cooped up in an apartment most of the day. That's no kind of life for an animal. I saved my cat from having to go to a shelter and don't have to worry about him tearing up my stuff and shitting all over my place when I'm gone for half the day. He's been far easier to train than most of the dogs I've had tbh.
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He talks about diet and probably feeds his dog kibble
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Spartong can't help himself, he is compelled to pretend!
The tiniest kid on the playground that tried to act tough, but always got his ass kicked, yeah that was Sparetong.
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Edgelord, I like that much more than contrarian.Your posts usually make a lot of sense but there's always that 1 or 2 claims that are completely inaccurate. There has never been a study that says cats have more neurons than dogs. It's nothing that is just guessed at. The neurons are actually counted in the brains of deceased dogs, cats and animals that have passed away and been donated to science. It is a plain simple fact that dogs have more than twice the amount of cats.
I think the study you are trying to remember is an earlier one that actually was more of just an estimate and said cats had greater "neuron density", but that's only cause their brains are much smaller than dogs and the more current science says density is of no matter as it is the total absolute number of neurons an animal has, especially in the cerebral cortex, that determines their degree of intellect and range of capabilities. Dogs also had more neurons than any other of the other omnivores studied, even more than those with much bigger brains. Science has also shown their brains have been growing bigger as compared to their ancestors.
It is all to say dogs have the biological capability of doing much more complex and flexible things with their lives than cats. It all makes perfect sense if you think of all the things dogs can and have been trained to do. Think of the different breads that have been bred to perform certain tasks so as it's an innate thing with that breed.
Dogs have been invaluable to humans, used in war time as messenger dogs, guard/patrol dogs, mining dogs etc. We have dogs commonly used as police dogs and in search and rescue and as service dogs for a variety of different purposes such as guide dogs, hearing dogs, seizure alert dogs, diabetic alert dogs, and allergy detection dogs. They're also used for mobility assistance and even autism and psychiatric support. You're not finding any cat that can provide all these services a dog can or even just a very small percentage of these services that dogs are capable of.