doing some more cat behavior experiments our cat is *extremely* careful playing with hands. she can run across the room faster than I can...
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even follow her, pounce even faster, and not just not pierce skin, but catch my hand with no pain at all however! if I hide my hand behind…
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an object--tissue--with the cat either seeing the hand being hidden, or only seeing that it protrudes from behind the object--
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then she uses the full force of the claws on the other hand, she can clearly correlate positions of objects while clearing an obstruction…
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so the combination of these two traits lead me to believe she lacks abstract thinking required to comprehend a hidden hand
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yeah, it looks like crows are pressured more to develop this kind of thinking
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also. have you noticed that cats adopted from the street tend to be much smarter than cats raised in an apartment since birth?
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Can confirm. My cat Mimi was a stray and is obnoxiously smart—he can open cabinets and doors and operate faucets sometimes
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I let the door slightly ajar a couple of times and watched Mimi figure out how to open it…was interesting watching how cats learn
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I've shown our cat *one time* how to open a particular door and she instantly remembered. too weak to actually open, sadly
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