Also, cat behavior can vary wildly from one to another. I had a cat that hunted and ate his kills. Cleared my mice-in-the-walls problems! He never left me a present.
Had another cat that not only showed zero hunting behavior or play, she showed none of the typical behavior we joke about.
Also, none of my cats have ever brought me a present.
It’s been 35-years back, but after 4 professors from different disciplines recommended Desmond Morris’ books, I dived in. He believed that cats and dogs saw us as cats and dogs, just a different sort. I may be misremembering, but he did write about that idea in relation to dogs.
So that’s no longer the thinking? I never felt that my cats viewed me as one of them, but my dogs seemed to. But that’s probably me anthropomorphizing.
i think it might be that dogs view themselves as one of us, we did specifically breed them to be more like humans after all and they’re constantly surrounded by us.
Obviously they recognize there’s some difference though, since they clearly treat other dogs differently. They don’t really expect a human to go running around with them, but another dog is expected to share in the zoomies.
Also, cat behavior can vary wildly from one to another. I had a cat that hunted and ate his kills. Cleared my mice-in-the-walls problems! He never left me a present.
Had another cat that not only showed zero hunting behavior or play, she showed none of the typical behavior we joke about.
Also, none of my cats have ever brought me a present.
It’s been 35-years back, but after 4 professors from different disciplines recommended Desmond Morris’ books, I dived in. He believed that cats and dogs saw us as cats and dogs, just a different sort. I may be misremembering, but he did write about that idea in relation to dogs.
So that’s no longer the thinking? I never felt that my cats viewed me as one of them, but my dogs seemed to. But that’s probably me anthropomorphizing.
i think it might be that dogs view themselves as one of us, we did specifically breed them to be more like humans after all and they’re constantly surrounded by us.
Obviously they recognize there’s some difference though, since they clearly treat other dogs differently. They don’t really expect a human to go running around with them, but another dog is expected to share in the zoomies.