• AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I know it’s a meme com, but they really aren’t. In this case it’s more about humans being “dumb”. They try to apply the same methodology they use with dogs to cats. And that in itself is dumb. There are studies out there that treat cats as cats and yield actual results.

    Another thing is there’s much, much more funding for dog research simply because dogs are far more useful to humans than cats. E.g. guide dogs for blind people, other service dogs, bomb sniffer dogs, rescue dogs, etc.

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      2 days ago

      Meanwhile, useful cats are just cats doing cat things, like chasing mice and rodents in the house or in a barn for barn cats, as they require much less training since it’s their natural instinct and much less maintenance since some don’t crave human attention constantly (for barn cats).

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        We actually train dogs to catch mice, because cats are, as concluded in the study, dicks that will only do what they please.

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          20 hours ago

          There was a documentary about rats on Netflix I think and there was a segment about rat hunting terriers. There was a pack of them on a farm and they were just ripping those rats apart. Completely vicious like fighting over rats.

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            17 hours ago

            And then we have mink trained to exterminate rats together with dogs. That might be the most entertaining way of rat extermination to watch.