John Bradshaw's 2013 work is being floated around Twitter again. He's the guy who says that housecats think we're cats too. [UPDATE 10/2: If they can see our Blaschko Lines, we can't blame them...]
I don't actually own a cat. I used to like cats more than dogs because dogs were bigger and barkier than I was at age eight. My parents got a dog when I was about twenty years old who won me over, after many months of trying, bless her fluffy soul. But back to cats.
Cats act most like lions: they are driven by dominance and insecurity. These aren't tiger problems.
Looking around at feline psychology, their brains do work much like primates'. Sarah Brown argues for a "socialisation", which looks like it wires cats to see us as kinfolk.
I don't know exactly if, or if so why, dogs' brains be different. Dominance is clearly a thing among wolves. The difference may be the neuroticism: if the dog isn't alpha, the dog accepts that, as long as he's got his meal and his b!tches. The crown might not fit so steadily on the Lion King.
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