For a long time now the relative merits of owning a cat or a dog have been argued. It has been suggested that because dogs can be trained and will give total loyalty to their owners they are the superior pet. Whilst it is a fact that there are no examples of cats doing a Greyfriars Bobby and sitting on their masters' grave for months they do have their strong points.

Providing you feed and cosset a cat and provide for its every need it will lie, sleep and sit around your home thereby giving it that touch of class it would otherwise lack. As far as a cat is concerned if you are silly enough to throw a stick or a ball you can jolly well go and fetch it back yourself. You have to admit there is some logic in that argument. Logic is something that a cat owner would appreciate because a recent study carried out at the University of Bristol in the UK has come up with some interesting findings.

Without being able to suggest why the learned professors of Bristol have discovered that cat owners tend to have better academic qualifications than dog owners. The study also found out that a quarter of the households owner cats while surprisingly a third owned a dog They also discovered that the number of pet cats and dogs in the UK had risen by 60% in the last 20 years.

The question still needs to be answered as to why cat owners on average tend to be better academically qualified than their dog owning counterparts? One suggestion is that the better qualified tend to work longer hours and therefore would not have the spare time needed to take proper care of a dog. (Big plus for cats, they do not need taking for a walk or have someone following them with a pooper scooper).

A more likely suggestion is that the cat being the far more intelligent animal will tend to seek out more intelligent owners. I do think that this is possibly a more likely explanation because the cat knows one thing from birth. Owners are designed to be trained and wrapped around the cat's paw. If the cat has an intelligent owner this represents a real challenge that the cat will enjoy. If on the other hand if it is too easy the game is no fun.

If there is one thing a cat likes it is a challenge, providing of course it is not too strenuous.

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