DOGS VS CATS
If you’ve ever tried to train both a cat and a dog, you’re likely to have found the latter an easier task. But why is it that dogs will usually sit, while cats do as they please? In the wild, dogs are much more used to living in groups, and use their pack mentality instincts to adapt well to human commands. While dogs are naturally inclined to follow a leader, cats are more likely to act upon their own desires, regardless of what is suggested to them. However, cats do hold one great advantage in house training, as they are quick to associate litter trays as a place to go to the toilet. Dogs have 530 million nerve cells in the brain’s cerebral cortex, whereas cats only have 250 million. This enables dogs to process more complex thought patterns and words, ultimately making them easier to train. Cats have tiny hairs in their ears that make them better listeners than dogs, but due to their desire to be accepted into a family, or pack, dogs are more likely to act on the commands they hear.