‘Dogs are smart at dog things and cats are smart at cat things’, according to Alexandra Horowitz, a senior research fellow who studies dog cognition at Barnard College in the US.
She says dog and cat cognition studies are not designed to measure or compare intelligence.
And Kristyn Vitale, an assistant professor of animal health and behavior at Unity College, told LiveScience that researchers studying animals’ social intelligence and their abilities to solve problems or form concepts, found that the way dogs and cats were raised and treated may affect how they performed on cognitive tests.
