Science in Action: Dogs Are Loyal And Cats Are Manipulative

Are you a dog person or a cat person? Depending on who you ask, dogs are loyal simpletons, while cats are sneaky and independent - and now SCIENCE has confirmed it.

It doesn't take a genius to see it - just run down to the Twin Falls Animal Shelter and interact with the animals for a little bit - and you will see just how different cats and dogs are. Dogs will do anything to be loved by you and cats will take the first chance to claw your face off! I exaggerate a little, but one study found that dogs have learned to follow human cues so well, they're easily influenced by what their human owners want... even if it's not to their benefit.

So, dogs are more likely to go in the direction that a person is looking, even if it means taking a smaller dish of food than if they'd gone off on their own in the other direction.

Cats, not so much.  They've learned to read human cues as well...but they use it to MANIPULATE people into doing what they want.

Jezebel published the findings of a recent study that found that cats have developed a special purr, designed to be extremely annoying to humans.  And people will do just about anything to make it stop, including feeding them more or giving them attention.