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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think the difference between cats and dogs is mainly tens of thousands of additional years of co-operative evolution. Cats are amazing but dogs you can almost assume can understand your emotions and care, that comes from the absurd length of time dogs and humans have been friends, it is a relationship that far predates other domestication by an immense length of time.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago

I think cats can often understand your emotions... they just don't care lol

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago

It's also worth noting that there's good evidence that cats self-domesticated, much more than dogs did. This will also have an impact on the relationship, with cats basically doing cat things for us on their terms and dogs doing dog things for us on our terms.

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