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Can any scientists confirm this important fact?
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I have doubts that any credible and serious scientific discovery would involve this degree of anthropomorphism when it comes to assigning motivation to an animal's behavior.
But let's say I ended up with a hecking case of brain worms who devoured the vast majority of my critical thinking skills and was able to completely ignore that first point, this still doesn't quite compute. If you've ever had cats and/or dogs in your life, then you are probably also aware that each one has its own unique personality and behaviors. Even if we assume that they have human-like rationalizations and emotional capacity, does it even make sense to believe that they all uniformly perceive people in the same uniform manner?
On scientific level, dogs is a herd animal, which need a leader, cats don't know leaders, they a single hunters, they can create asociations with other cats if it have advantages to obtain food, leader or boss are not in their vocabulary. Human can be a good friend but not more, if not, he's only the tin opener. As said, cats are almost the exact opposite of dogs, even in their body lenguage.
https://www.catsonbroadwayhospital.com/life-feral-cat-colony/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Now%2C+how+do+cats+behave%2Cas+teach+them+appropriate+behaviors.
Wild cats sometimes form colonies. Those structures do have matriarchs. There is dominance in the groups.
Yes, but these are not hirarchical Groups like in Dogs or Wulfs, these are more interests groups to follow the smartest, which in felines are the females, most the oldest and experienced. But there are not organized structures. "You know where the food is, I'll follow you". Lions are the only cats with structured groups and a leader.