💯% true. They can also look after themselves, clean themselves, do their business inside without you having to take them outside, all these come down to independence as mentioned, they can lower stress and anxiety, they carry a lower risk of heart disease or stroke, reduce feelings of loneliness, and will even keep your house pest free ✨❤️
And their bellies smell good. Fresh. Clean. I love kitty bellies! So soft and fluffy. With their primordial pouches! Allergies got too bad. Oh, man, I miss kitties!
My first cat was a Siamese. He knew the sound of my Nissan Sentra. My neighbor in the duplex I lived in witnessed this. He would get all excited, meow and scratch at the door when I pulled up in front to park. But he wouldn't react to other cars. He was so affectionate he would jump into my arms and burry his face into the side of my head. Miss the old guy. He was the love of my life, living to the age of 16 years.
Yes, a cat's hearing is it's sharpest sense. One of my longtime cat buddies would part the curtains of the front window of my place every time I came driving up home from work. They also know what your footfall sounds like. Even the outside cats that I feed around here know when I've come home, and will waylay me at the window of the third floor elevator lobby.
Our last kitten became 2 kittens and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. We laughed at those two sillies for 15 years. They were so entertaining! Watching them with each other was often hysterically funny! At first glance identical but they couldn't have been more different. Always together. I consider it a privilige to have raised and enjoyed Murphy and his sister, Molly. Living with a couple happy cats is a lot of fun!
I never thought I could love an animal so much, I adore my two cats, she came trough my window, gave birth and never left, I kept one kitten and found homes for the other ones, these cats were my only company during covid in NYC with draconian lock downs, I love my babies so much, I sleep with them, the baby likes to be hugged and the mama cuddles in my head. They were my emotional support during the worse time alone, I simply adore them with all my heart.
They are special! They can feel love and show it in their own way, it's just different to doggos. In regards to emotional depth, cats do not feel guilt. It makes sense, it would interfere with their effectiveness as predators. They can however recognise if they made you sad and if you're close to your kitty, they will try to cheer you up; if they do something you don't like, they will learn not to do it (if you treat them right - positive reinforcement, never punishment), but this will be driven by not wanting to lose your attention - better to get a lovely snack and a gleeful human. Dogs on the other hand display body language, including facial expressions, indicating guilt. Its just a different neurobiology. But again, now being bonded with my kitty, I think she is absolutely amazing and that she has her own little mind with her own emotions, preferences, moods and quirks. I will love her and provide the best care I can until the end. In an ideal world, I'd love to have both a cat and a doggo, a happy diverse family haha. BTW - apparently kitties and doggos learn to understand each other and can pick up traits and behaviours of the other species.
@@thebastian1769 So true! My BIG Girl, Azunda, wouldn't be an animal that one would use force to discipline. She's 143 Pounds and just under 24" (two feet) at the shoulders. And loves to be in your lap.
My British Shorthair did that, walked around grumbling. She sounded like she could curse like a New Yorker! She was extremely sweet, though. She hugged like a teddy bear 🧸.
@Science Not Stigma really?!?! That is so dope. Did your kitty ever meow? Ollie seems to meow only when he is scared or distressed. I was born in NY and your comment made me laugh. Thank you for the laugh. Best wishes my friend
Cat Facts: 1. Equipped with stealth feet 2. Can make 10x the number of sounds as dogs 3. Have their own id card made of pheromones 4. Emotional part of their brain is closer to human's than a dog's is 5. Love twilight time (dawn and dusk) 6. Come equipped with night goggles 7. Hunt alone 8. Equipped with a slinky for a spine 9. Equipped with their own grooming tool 10. Have superhero ears
We are 'owned' by nine cats, all rescues and as has been alluded to, they all have their individual personalities which are fascinating to watch with the respective interactions. Considering I was brought up with dogs for forty years, now I would never be without the company of cats. 😍
"Cats🐈 are....THE most Gorgeous, Clever, Mysterious, & Magical creatures on Earth!!....anyone who doesn't love cats 🐱, is irrelevant!!". The ancient Egyptians, worshipped them as GODS!!!......Very smart people the Egyptians!!"🐱💋🐈💋 🐾🐱💋🐈🐾
We had to put kiddy latches on all our cabinets because one cat figured out how to open them. I caught her once trying to manipulate the doorknob on the bathroom door, but she couldn't get a purchase on the round knob.
Considering that dogs have to work for us (Guarding, hunting, herding, etc) and cats can just lay around in the warm sunlight all day if they want, it's pretty obvious that they are FAR smarter than even a lot of humans.
From time to time, my Azunda gets work requests, but mostly, yeah she loves the sun and when guests show up to admire and pet her... especially the children.
@@ginakelley749 Got that right. While out, a squirrel made it through the ceiling in the kitchen. I know it was a squirrel because my guys greeted me at the door, and one of the little guys had a new toy (Bushy gray tail). No other sign of the squirrel was ever found. That's efficiency.
I've got one cat that follows me 24/7 like a dog. Follows me in to every room, even the toilet. Sits outside my room. Sits beside me when I'm on the couch. I've another one that seems to live on my shoulder. Like a fury parrot
I have been told by persons at home, my 13 cats know when I am coming close in the car on the street around the block. They start to run to the entrance. We all understand each other marvelously.
They came in gradually, @@earlmarshall6543. The first is 8 years old. The most recent member of the family will be 1 year old in April. All rescued or born at home from rescued moms.
I believe it! My cat knows when we are coming home. Always need to slowly open the door and immediately look down (He's pretty much always there) or else he will take off! haha
You're spot on with the remarks of twilight behaviour. At first I had one male cat, he was my buddy, walking without a leash with me. When he died, which broke my heart, 2 kittens, one shy, and one fantastic. That one died in a caraccident, the shy one is still shy especially with people other than me. My neighbours could not care for him during holidays.
Yes, I really started to notice that in cats when i got my current cat. He's very active in the morning and there is like an hour during the night when he goes crazy haha. I'm sorry to hear about your cat that died. Thaks for watching
You are wrong that domestic cats can live in the wild. Feral cats do not have good lives, and assuming that a cat can take care of itself if a human leaves it someplace or abandons it is cruel.
I wish someone would tell my cat about being silent on his feet. Sometimes I think he has a set of hooves he puts on at night in order to make full use of the wooden floorboards as he thunders around playing with his toys!
I've always said my cats sound like a herd of elephants stampeding when they choose the wooden stairs for their zoomies and chase games. They chase, tackle, and u-turn to do it all over again. It's cute until, oh, the 2 AM zoomies. I finally learned to sleep through it 😴
"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." "In Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this!" This is all you need to know about cats.
My short hair, Mr. Boo, seems to have me figured out. He loves being rolled with a lint roller and knows when I’ll be able to do him. The smartest cat I’ve ever had.
Very informative video and I like it very much. I subscribed last Friday, lucky 182😍. Today I’m rewatching your video with my husband who was not a cat lover ( at first ) but he likes our adopted tabby cat Missy now. My Missy brings joy and happiness in our home 🥰
When a cat falls, they will still likely fracture something when they land, if it’s very high, so PLEASE don’t toss your cat from a high place to test this reflex!
The cats come and go outside as they please. The dog got out once and had a 5k vet bill. The cats are very suspicious if I change food or litter. The dog crapped a rope made out of parts of his "indestructible" dog bed.
Here is a way cats are smarter: My cats can sit on my lap and we'll watch cat TV on RU-vid and they can recognize the images on the screen. They'll get transfixed when seeing images of birds, mice, squirrels, other cats, etc. on the screen. They recognize what they are. As for dogs, they don't recognize TV images at all, but they do recognize the sounds.
Dogs have twice the amount of neurons in their brains. They also have bad eyesight, while cats have amazing sight. Both are smart, your comment is misinformed and appears biased. Dogs feel a wider range and depth of emotion; kitties' emotions may not go as high, but they feel love just the same. For example, they do not feel guilt, but they have other empathetic traits and are not bad by nature. Cats are more driven by instinct, being natural primary predators - and they rely on meat. Dogs are secondary predators, which means they will hunt if they need to, but don't have to rely on meat only. Totally different minds and bodies. Both are awesome and have their distinct traits and intelligence. Inb4- I've had dogs, I now have a cat, and I deeply love both. Lets just love both rather than looking for reasons why one is better than another. They are amazing creatures.
@Steffi Reitsch A child's comeback, like "No, you are stupid" One of my parents' dog loves watching TV with me, she follows the action on screen, often standing around 1,5m from the TV, tilting her head, following the movement on screen. She recognises words she knows, which is visible by body language. Some dogs are more interested, some less. But it seems you don't really know what you're talking about. You can Google it. Now I'll point out one fact - only petty people try to make one thing special by devaluing something else. Kitties are special and lovely because they are special and lovely, not because they are better or worse than dogs. Which are special and lovely just the same. Kids often say another thing, "my thing is better because yours is worse". Then most of them grow out of it.
Lets get real here If cats weren't cute, there wouldn't be that much cats around. Their cuteness made humans to feed and care them. In all animal kingdom, right now, best adaptation skill is being somehow usefull for humans.
Between the barely readable nature of this comment and the illiterate comment to it I’d have to say cats have a leg up on a lot of humans when it comes to intelligence and certainly to ingratiating themselves to humans. And as an aside, many current and former North Koreans can compose more grammatically correct, understandable English sentences, with all the words spelled correctly, than either commenter. Why anyone would be discussing the dining preferences of a very small portion of Koreans responding in response to this video is baffling, much like the illiterate grammar used to write it.
They're only cute because humans tried to domesticate wildcats, they fed those cats and the cats helped humans kill pests until they adapted to be cute.
@@georgemarcouxjr6192 also Cambodia, China etc. It makes me die inside when I see photos. Though if you look at it, eating any animal is sad given we don't rely on meat to survive nowadays
@@fashiondiva6972 English grammer rules are weird, I thought I made a good job while writing the comment. If you don't mind, would you correct it please. I want to see what I did wrong. Also for this comment too.
you forgot to mention one of the most fascinating things about cats. 'terminal velocity' when a cat falls from a great hight, they have an extra layer of fat underneath them that expands out like a parachute to halt the speed at which they fall (like a parachute) my cat fell from my flat window when she was on heat. the fall was about 6 bungalows high. my heart stopped and I rushed down to find her. thinking she would be fatally injured, to my absolute surprise and joy, she trotted up to me with just a cut bottom lip. when a cat falls from a height like that, they spread out all four legs and and 'float down'. cats are truly fascinating and adapted. how they evolved to do this is very bizarre and a mystery to me.
Cats don't have scent glands in their tear ducts. Cats have scent glands around their cheeks, chin, top of their head, and base of their tail. These are the scent glands which contain pheromones. When cats rub their face or tail against humans, other animals, or household items, they are leaving behind this pheromone that they can identify. The lacrimal gland [or duct] is common to mammals and is located within the orbit above the lateral end of the eye. It continually releases fluid which cleanses and protects the eye's surface as it lubricates and moistens it. These lacrimal secretions are commonly known as 'tears'.
Have you seen the video where the family cat chases away a dog that has attacked the families little boy? Cat goes at the bigger dog with no fear and then when the dog runs behind and around the back of the family car the cat goes to the front of the car to make sure the dog was not sneaking back that way. Pretty amazing. Our cat once went after a racoon that was coming towards me. Have never seen that cat so upset ! Other times he would just watch the racoons walk through the back yard without interest.
Did you know there are more cats outside then inside cats, please keep your cats indoors at all times no matter how much they want to go out, if you don't it's bye bye kitty! There are some cats that are smart to open doors. Get key locks on both sides of your door, they will never leave the house if you do this! Key locks on windows too!
I believe it. That's exactly why I walk my cat on a leash. If he went outside by himself I don't think it would end well. I know two people who unfortunately let their cats outside alone and never returned
My first cat was a shorthair who was born with the mutant TRPV4 gene, the same mutation of Scottish Fold. Her ears were smaller than those of other cats. She lived almost 20 years. I uploaded a video dedicated to her recently. Her name was Goku.
so if my cat is nuzzling and rubbing around on furniture in front of another cat, it is marking it's territory and effectively telling the other to "piss off"?
I have a theory, my friend has a feral cat ( was feral rather ) found in a forest in Croatia and brought back to the UK, anyway my friend said this cat whilst in the forest back in Croatia would hunt birds & butterflies... so years later said cat and I were in the back garden enjoying some sunshine when I noticed the cat 'chattering' towards a landed butterfly which lay seemingly stunned by this cats chattering, as if the cat was sending out some kind of primordial ultrasonic hunting beacon which in one way or another confused the butterfly... the cat slowly made it way towards the butterfly crouching all the way and chattering all the way also... first time I'd seen it, she never did it again, but I can see it now... I understand foxes can almost feel the Earth's magnetic field which helps with their hunting technique... same thing with chattering cats eh ? I dunno... good to guess these things out, I wonder what it really is hmmm...
I'm 76 years old now and I've lived most of my life in rural communities in North Alabama, and during my lifetime I've owned seven dogs and five cats, and I have to say that even though I really did love those dogs, that I perceived the cats as being smarter than the dogs. For one thing, if hard-pressed, a cat can kill mice, chipmunks, and birds to survive, whereas dogs will starve to death if someone doesn't feed them. Just sayin'
You may have missed the main reason why cats don't fear high places, why they even attempt to jump as high and so on... It's because their forelimbs are not jointed to the rest of the skeleton... so when they land, the forelimbs simply go up while the spine goes down with the rest of the body... So they are almost unable to hurt themselves in an average landing...
No way cats are smarter than dogs. My old cat use to run face first into the sliding glass door al the time. I got a dog who saw that happen a few times and then would intentionally walk in front of the cat and stop her if she were getting too close to the door. The cat was too stupid to realize what glass was, so the far smarter dog had to keep her from her own dumb. :D
I used to dislike (never hate) cats and thought they are violent and aloof, but always tried to show them some love - I just didn't know how! Some even scared me, my ex had a true bandit of a cat, he would sneak up on me e.g. on the backseat of the sofa and would maul and run. Maybe he could smell my dog's scent on me, but he was malicious - probably behavioural problems due to not being brought up well. Fun fact? I still loved him in my own way, while being definitely a dog person back then. My mind was changed by experience and maturity. I have a little cat now and I think she's an amazing being, a true family member. But generalising people who dislike cats is a bit daft. If someone grew up in a family that owned only doggos (like me), they'd very likely misunderstand cats and approach them the wrong way and misread them. Saying "if you don't like cats, you're an annoying brute" creates unnecessary barriers - But yeah, there are plenty of soulless brutes out there who hate animals. Cats, dogs..
