Nope. Cats have been proven to consistently meow or vocalise in a different way to humans than other cats. So they know the difference.
They don’t think we’re incompetent cats. They know we’re incompetent humans.
We had a cat that had a full blown existential crisis when we got another cat later. He was depressed for months, and I am positive it’s because it made him realize that he was a cat.
Cross posted from here where it’s discussed that this is mostly untrue. https://feddit.uk/post/33710607
Bullshit! My cat definately knows shes superior to a human
source? genuinely curious
It’s utter rubbish. Just look at how cats react to unfamiliar humans compared to unfamiliar cats. They know the difference.
I’d say even go further and say they differentiate more than that. I remember seeing an adult house cat encounter sheep for the first time. He very clearly and obviously recognized that these were new creatures he’d never seen before. They weren’t another cat, nor were they human. His reaction was very interesting to watch. He was extremely leery and cautious of the sheep - but at the same time also very curious about them. After a bit he figured out that the sheep weren’t a threat, and that he could approach them and the sheep would more or less just ignore him.
I sometimes wonder if its because they don’t pass mirror test and think they are humans.
There’s cats that do and some that don’t. Mine once looked in the mirror after getting a haircut
While my cat is over here convinced that any reflective surface has strange and scary cats living in them and refuses to walk past them.
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You should try googling mate! Wolves have been observed to hunt with crows (crows locate it, wolves kill it, crows get the leftovers), their coexistence is in fact to the point where crows play with wolf puppies (chasing games and tug of wars have been observed)! Due to this cooperation wolves have evolved and do recognize and treat these members of their packs differently! Which you too can observe if you own a dog, as it does not treat you like another dog! In opposition to cats, who despite also living in colonies do not cooperate with other species nor with each other really (with exemptions to raising their little ones, they supervise each other if the mom and dad goes hunting at the same time). They are not really capable of recognizing other than prey, cat, danger
https://www.petmd.com/dog/pet-lover/can-dogs-tell-difference-between-dogs-and-other-animals
Edit: @Goodeye8 is lying, he made that quote up! Please use a word search in the source before you take his nonsense ok face value
From the very Nat Geo article you linked:
I’ve read articles where you’ve said cats think of us as big, stupid cats. Is that accurate?
No. In the book [I say] that cats behave toward us in a way that’s indistinguishable from [how] they would act toward other cats. They do think we’re clumsy: Not many cats trip over people, but we trip over cats.
But I don’t think they think of us as being dumb and stupid, since cats don’t rub on another cat that’s inferior to them.
They might not be able to understand that we’re a completely different species but they do understand that we’re not your average cat (another evidence of that is that cats generally don’t meow between each other but they do meow with humans) and they definitely don’t view us as terrible or incompetent. They view us as clumsy because based on how they see the world we are in general pretty clumsy.
Bit off topic but another interesting fact is that if we factor in fine motor skills we’re the least clumsiest animal on the planet. Cats have excellent gross motor skills but you don’t see them threading a needle. And very few animals could thread a needle because, well for a multitude of reasons but primarily because most animals simply can’t get that level of precision out of their limbs or mouth or trunk or whatever they would have to use. But for us that is so easy we don’t even question the level of complexity and precision we’re showcasing. Gross motor skills looks like it might bring us down but we’re actually very adaptive when it comes to gross motor skills (see parkour, rock climbing or just gymnastics). We simply don’t spend time developing those skills because most of us never need it. We don’t need to climb over fallen trees or crawl under bushes because if a lot of people need to use that route we just pave a road.
Humans having best fine motor skills seems fairly obvious tbf. I’ve seen the videos of monkeys trying to use a hammer.
I added that part specifically because it’s so obvious. It’s so obvious we don’t even think about all the fine motor movements we can do with excellent precision that no other animal in the world could even do.
I never said that they view us as dumb or incompetent?
The image says that. The other person asked for a source for that statement and you gave sources without correcting the terrible incompetent part. I think it’s a fair interpretation that you implied it.
I didn’t?
And you taking the issue with someone saying incompetent instead of clumsy, with me no less who is not the author nor the poster,is a very intelligent! Hope your glasses certificate gonna be revoked and then you won’t be seeing properly!
I’m just going to ignore the absolute nonsense you just wrote and say that it’s not my problem if you’re incapable of acknowledging a mistake. Go have a day and don’t bother me.
Your qute is also false and not within either of my sources, so you also lied
But what if you, and take my hand this is going to be scary, didn’t attempt to dissmiss it?
You are barking at the guy, who by your own recollection explicitly shared correct information via my words and links, but supposedly implied something via commenting under a post with whiches wording you disagree! Again, you have an issue with someone saying incompetent instead of clumsy! With which again, I did not post nor made that/such post!
Your interesting fact is also not interesting, nor true! Corvins have such fine motor skills that they are not only capable of making tools, they entered their stone age
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Humans being categorised as not danger is a bit far from them being literally seen as other cats
…yes, thats why they view us as cats as we are too large to be hunted by them?
Can I have a source for the crow and wolf cooperation? that sounds so cute 😭
Okay no, never doing this again! Pls use google! I looked it up, the very first ups is a youtube video!
We think one of our cats thinks he’s a human, whilst believing his sister and two brothers are still cats.
“Mama! Papa! one of those cats is trying to get into our bedroom and sleep on our human bed for humans”
I sort of knew I was incompetent as a cat, but hearing that my cats agree with it is pretty harsh. It tracks though.
Well both are right…
This seems interesting, source?
