Cats and dogs, as the two most closely related pets to humans, have always been the hot spot of people’s comments, and many people compare them together and ask various questions. Someone recently asked me this question: Why are cats not obedient dogs? I believe everyone has seen others ask this kind of question, so let’s discuss it.
In fact, for those who ask this question, we can ask back to a question: Why should cats be obedient? At the beginning, the ancestors domesticated cats and dogs for completely different purposes, and the dog needed to take care of the house, hunt, graze, and pull sleds, so it needed to follow the owner’s various instructions to complete the work. The cat is mainly used to catch mice and guard the granary, and it does not need to follow any complicated instructions to be competent for this job.
And it’s not just the above reasons, although cats and dogs are both carnivores, they are very cute, and they are our good friends, but the way of living and behavioral habits of canines and cats are very different, which is also the main reason why dogs are more obedient and cats are less obedient.
Let’s talk about dogs first, from when they were gray wolves, they were social animals, the whole community is composed of several to dozens of members, collectively foraging, resting, migrating territory, fighting against foreign enemies, all actions are mutually assisted and cared for, there is a unified leader, the social hierarchy is strict, and the members perform their own duties. In addition to lions, almost all other members of the cat family are solitary animals, including the ancestor of cats, the wild spotted cat. Although cats will also communicate and interact with their own kind, and will huddle together to keep warm in winter, this is not a social behavior in the strict sense, and there is no stable sociality, most of them are foraging alone, and the whole family is not hungry when they eat enough!
Therefore, dogs living with humans will rely on the shoveling officer as a family member, or as a team leader to obey, and thousands of years of domestication history require it to obey instructions, which will make the dog appear very obedient. In the nature of cats living alone, they do not rely on and obey these words at all, and if they can beat it, they will beat it, and if they can’t beat it, they will slip away: Isn’t it okay to force me to run away? !
And many times the cat doesn’t understand, but doesn’t obey, you say yours, it does it, I don’t want to pay attention to you. Cats are not very dependent on people or their own kind, which is one of the reasons why they are not obedient to dogs: I don’t have anything to ask for you, isn’t it shameless to listen to you?
Cats with different personalities and breeds get along with humans are also different: it is said that ragdoll cats and Siamese cats are as smart as dogs, and my family just raised them. When the Siamese cat Vivi first came home, it avoided conflicts with other cats in this way, as long as it found that there was danger, it immediately ran to the shoveling officer, and it knew that other cats did not dare to touch it! And the ragdoll cat Lele will listen to his name since he was a child, will agree, will observe words and expressions and come as soon as he is called.
But no matter how smart the cat is, they are always just a cat, which is very different from a dog and cannot be forced. If your purpose is to want a very obedient pet, then it’s better to raise a dog, don’t expect to let a cat’s body live in the dog’s soul through some devilish training. Doing so will only add to your life and stress, make your cat feel bored and aggrieved, and will definitely not meet your expectations.
Since you have chosen to raise a cat, you must accept and respect this reality: whether you are poor or rich, whether you are healthy or sick, whether you are glamorous or gray-headed, your cat will not want to pay attention to you.
