Do dogs really hate cats or is it just a cartoon fantasy?

Most people think this is how cats and dogs get along. They might fight once in a while; there is evidence that the two species can live together without much trouble. In 2020, PLOS ONE interviewed 1,270 dog and cat owners. The study found that most dogs and cats were calm when their companion approached another species. But he acts differently. One thing is that they eat in different places. Another interesting fact is that, as you might expect, more dogs lick cats, and more cats don’t care about dogs. The survey found that most dogs and cats (62.4%) play together and that most dogs and cats (68.5%) sometimes sleep together.

The authors say that the data backs up long-held beliefs about how friendly dogs are and how private cats are. Even though they speak different languages, the study shows that they understand and interpret each other’s ideas correctly. Mar Puig, a veterinary assistant and canine educator who is also an expert on cats and cursed, tells Maldita that the study is based on taking the people in charge of the animals into account through a form. The expert says that “hate” “does not exist between species of animals other than humans” because animals are both prey and predators and often both simultaneously. The dog is a predator, and the cat is one of the animals it hunts. It means that both dogs and cats hunt other species. The veterinary assistant replied that other things are more important because humans nurtured them.

The two most important things to consider are how much time each person spends with others and how the species lives. Dogs are social animals that get close to the people and things around them. Cats, on the other hand, are solitary and independent, and they can live without the help of other cats and like to run away. The way a dog or cat has raised influences its adult behavior. According to the veterinary assistant, a puppy can inherit characteristics from another animal if it is “bred” or spends time with it.

Still, Puig says that even if a dog and a cat get along well outside the house, the dog’s hunting instinct or territoriality takes over and chases the cat. A dog that lives inside with a cat can kill it if it comes into contact with the cat outside. Cats are just as likely to attack the dog they live with daily if they are in an “unsafe” place or when it’s time to breed. On this piece, she worked with José Angel Morales and that damned Mar Puig, who are two of her superpowers. With your superpowers, knowledge, and experience, we can fight lies more effectively. The Maldita.es community can help get rid of false information. Send us hoaxes you hear about through our WhatsApp service, give us your superpowers, spread our denials, or apply to be an Ambassador to help us in this fight.

A dog or cat can watch TV on their own or sit next to us while we watch Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. Both of these animals look like they know what to do.  Most of the time, we humans give our dogs human traits. We do not doubt that they can talk to us in our language and act and think like us. We find it funny that they watch TV because they do the same thing we do.  Both animals have good eyesight, but ours is not the same. They also don’t see TV like we do because the images are static frames shown at 24, 50, or 60 frames per second. For example, what you see on TV is a person with different interests, not a cow or a car. So, no, the plot isn’t what makes your dog addicted to Perry Mason.

What do dogs see?

Andrea Nez-Torrón from TICbeat says that dogs have dichromatic vision, which means they only use yellow and blue, the two basic colors, to see different shades of color. People have trichromatic vision, which means they can see all colors by combining red, blue, and green. Even though dogs and humans have similar eyesight, they see things differently. Another important difference is that dogs and humans see movement at different speeds. When our eyes look at between 15 and 20 pictures per second, it seems like things are moving, and it is why movies are shown at 24 frames per second to show movement. On the other hand, dogs need to see at least 70 images per second to know when something is moving. At 24 frames per second, a dog watching a movie on TV sees a series of still images instead of movement. If a child notices movement in a video game or TV show shot at 50 or 60 frames per second, they may have a seizure.

What do they see?

Cats aren’t as interested in TV as dogs are. And when they are in this situation, their instinct to hunt takes over, and they don’t realize this until they find something to eat. In 2008, 125 cats permitted to watch TV for three hours a day only looked at the screen 6.1% of the time, and when they did, it was virtually always when a bird, mouse, or other prey appeared. Because of this, experts say you shouldn’t leave a cat alone with the TV. If he sees a target, he might jump for it, knocking over the TV.

Pope Francis was sad that many couples choose to have no children or only one child. He said many people today would rather have dogs and cats than children. The pope said these things Wednesday before a large crowd talked about Saint Joseph, Jesus’ birth father. When the Holy Father talked about adoption and orphaned children today, he praised Joseph for taking Jesus in and raising him. He then turned his attention to couples who would rather have pets than kids.

Because they don’t want more kids, many couples choose not to have kids or only have one. Instead, they get two dogs and two cats. Yes, animals like dogs and cats can play the role of kids. I know you find that funny, but it’s true. “And denying paternity and motherhood makes us less human,” Pope Francis said at the first general audience of the year at the Vatican. Even though it was surprising to hear this from a progressive pope, Pope Francis’s comments reinforce what the Catholic Church teaches about how important it is for couples to have children and what might happen if they don’t.

Even though those who give their lives to God have spiritual fatherhood and motherhood, he said, those who live in the world and get married should think about having children and giving their lives to God because they will be the ones to close their eyes and think about the future. “It’s always dangerous to have a child, whether you have one of your own or adopt one. But not having them is a bigger risk. It is more dangerous to deny both spiritual and real motherhood and fatherhood. If a man and a woman don’t make an effort to feel like fathers and mothers, they are missing out on something important.

Why don’t cats and dogs get along?

Cats and dogs don’t know how to talk to each other. What one person sees as light, another sees as dark. They say the same thing in so many ways that it seems impossible for them to talk to each other. When the cats are comfortable, and at ease, they let us scratch their heads and meow quietly. They can do this in more than 20 different ways. Dogs use clean barking and slapping to get our attention when they want a pet. Yes, both say the same thing, but in different ways. The same happens when they both sit next to us when they want to talk to someone. We could move and place the dogs however we liked. If we want a cat curled up close to us to change its position, we should ignore it. Cats always go where they want to go and with whom they want to be.