dogs and cats

Without taking sides I’m a dog lover…..This article tells us:

It is a question that for centuries dog lovers and cat lovers have fought over like, well, cats and dogs: which animal is more intelligent?

Now scientists in Japan appear finally to have settled the matter by proving cats are just as good as their canine counterparts at various memory tests, suggesting they could be equally clever.

It is already known that dogs can recollect specific non-immediate events, an ability known as episodic memory.

But a study of  49 domestic cats showed the animals were also able to remember which bowl they had already eaten out of and which remained untouched, after a 15-minute interval