Dogs are capable of feeling jealousy - U.S. study

[taxslave]

That is amazing, someone was paid for this study? i could have told them many years ago that dogs
definitely feel jealousy, its a very obvious response over time when owning more than one dog, or
even one dog can feel jealousy when owner is giving more attention away from 'him' than he is
comfortable with.

and anyone who calls dogs 'stupid' obviously has never taken the time to know one, or even better,
trained many dogs over the years, and yes, i have 5 cats too, can't train them to do anything, but
they Aren't stupid either, just different, not interested in pleasing anyone, or learning anything
'they' don't want to, but i have seen videos of cats doing tricks, so when they are young and you
introduce hoops and other play things, they will learn to jump thru etc, as they are so playful.
the more i leave my cats alone, the more they hang around me, the more
one tries to make them do something, the more they disappear.

cats make decisions for themselves.

Cats know who is boss and who is servant.

 

[Twila]

Cats know who is boss and who is servant.

Independent hunters can not be trained the same as cooperative hunters. Cats are reactionary learners.

When a person attempts to teach a cat to not go on a particular bit of furniture, the human assumes the cat understands the scooting off the furniture is about "off the furniture" a cat sees it as "human wants furniture" so it's ok to be on the furniture when the human is not there. This is why spray bottle discipline doesn't work with cats. The cat sees who's on the end of the discipline/ spray bottle as the one in control.

Training a cat to do tricks requires the human to learn cat behavoir and the key is to make sure the animal never has a bad experience. Because they learn fast...

 

[lone wolf]

Two rules in training cats

-you have to be smarter than the cat
-you can't reveal that secret to the cat

 

[Twila]

Two rules in training cats

-you have to be smarter than the cat
-you can't reveal that secret to the cat

unfortunately, many people are unable to out-think a cat. I suspect, it's sometimes what makes them hate cats.

 

[Nuggler]

It's even worse when it comes to things like 'feeling pain'. There are groups out there that deny that the experience of pain is comparable between humans and other animals, and they base their argument on things like emotion. A lot of people still have a hard time believing that animals can experience emotion like we do. So even though they have the physiological mechanisms that we have for sensing pain, they would argue that based on emotion, it's not the same. Studies like this go a long way towards bridging that gap. The fact that nobody has published this kind of thing before, while it may seem obvious to most, well it's actually not to many others.

Tonington, some people are just really full of sh*t. ;-)

..........and stupid.