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Originally Posted by Mr. Mistoffelees
Most dog's don't do this, and a dog must be trained to do it.
Cats are more resistant to training. They could fucking care less about pleasing you by obeying some kind of order or trick. Assuming they were domesticated after dogs as you claim, this would make it harder to domesticate them.
Your logic is circular and your perceived correlation between intelligence and domestication is baseless.
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Some cats are capable of being trained, isolate those cats over hundreds of years and you'll have more intelligent cats, you haven't increased the intelligence of a given cat but you have raised the average intelligence (relative to humans) of the species.
This is exactly what happened with dogs, its believed that dogs were domesticated from foxes in a very short amount of time, by selectively breeding the foxes that made eye contact with their human captors. I don't see why the same couldn't be done with cats given the variability in cat to human relations.
Also, you don't have to train a dog to look where you are pointing, they can learn that on their own.