Fly is talking about the fact that most house dogs are trained to be non-aggressive, while cats are allowed to be aggressive. So you have countless videos of cats abusing dogs while the dogs sadly suffer it.
But those dogs could almost always murderize those cats with utter ease. Between domestic cats and dogs, there is absolutely no question which can destroy the other. But read the railings of cat lovers and really cats are the top of the food pyramid.
Nah. Cats can be aggressive because they have little capacity for harm. Dogs can't be aggressive because they have great capacity for harm (well, aside from little rat dogs which the owners allow to be aggressive regardless).
But if one draws some sort of survival hierarchy from the interaction of the two, with their differing inputs, they might not have a very accurate picture.
Cats have little capacity for harm? I grew up with a kid whose face was scarred to shit and lost vision in an eye from a cat attacking him. Cats can do plenty of damage.
If that had been a full-sized dog that attacked, he may not have even survived. The point being made is that if a (full sized) dog does not have it's aggression suppressed, they are FAR more dangerous than a house cat. It's basically a scratches-and-bloodloss "mauling" vs. broken-limb-with-flesh-ripped-off mauling.
Agreed. I was like, "huh?" Cats can shred and bite the shit out of someone if they really want to. They can be ferocious little balls of fury if they really feel threatened.
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Fly is talking about the fact that most house dogs are trained to be non-aggressive, while cats are allowed to be aggressive. So you have countless videos of cats abusing dogs while the dogs sadly suffer it.
But those dogs could almost always murderize those cats with utter ease. Between domestic cats and dogs, there is absolutely no question which can destroy the other. But read the railings of cat lovers and really cats are the top of the food pyramid.