Is a cat as smart as a dog?

Yes, cats are actually quite clever, they can sense when you call them, they can recognise their owners voice and know if they're near danger, also they land on all four paws when they fall/jump. But cats are supposedly colour blind, which may or may not affect their everyday lifestyle. I hope this has helped, I will try to find any more information for you :)

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Are cats celver - well, cats are just like people, some are clever, some are not. Some are affectionate, some are not etc. etc. I have had several cats (and loved them all) and their intelligence varied considerably. One of my cats, Silky, now resting in peace in our garden, was particularly clever. We had a sliding door between our lounge and kitchen, with a TV in the lounge, next to the sliding door. The sliding door had a concealed sliding handle, which one would push to slide the door open. If I was in the tichen, with the sliding door shut, and called Silky, she would jump on the top of the TV in the lounge, place her paws onto the concealed handle on the sliding door and push it a bit, thus sliding the kitchen door slightly open, then jump down and, using her paws, push the sliding door further so that she could get into the kitchen. Now THAT was very clever. Silky also knew, somehow, when I was coming home from work. My mum told me that Silky would regularly suddenly jump down from the settee and run into the hall and start pacing excitedly up and down. Mum initially had no idea why but then she would hear my key opening the front door. Silky did this every time I was coming home. When mum was not at home, Silky was always waiting for me in the hall when I arrived home. She just regonised MY STEPS - somehow. Whenever anybody else was passing our front door she was completely ignoring that stranger's steps.

One of my other cats was so stupid, that I actually spent a few hours sitting on the floor with him showing him how to push a standard door open - to no avail. He would always meow and wait for me to open the door for him.

None of my other cats ever did anything like Silky. So, as I said, some are clever and some are not.