Pet intelligence wank
The Guardian: Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test.

You can imagine how well this goes with the readers. Besides the predictable flood of pet owner butthurt and anecdotes of clever / stupid cats / dogs / mice / owls, there are plenty of genuinely funny comments as well as a side wank on the validity of test methods and statistics, obligatory calls to talk about world hunger instead or discuss the intelligence of various nationalities, and, naturally, Hitler and his pets make a bonus appearance. I think one could play classical wank bingo in here, but some of the stories make it all worthwhile.

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brennalarose
2009-06-18 09:45 pm UTC (link)

John, the bigger of our two kitties, figured out that he could headbutt the door open. The smaller one, Raven, has decided she's such a lady, the rest of the world needs to open the door FOR her. And if you don't, she'll rip up the carpet underneath it.

Raven also knows when she's about to get it for being naughty, even if we were in the other room and don't know she's done anything. She sit there and wait until she knows we're coming for her and then start running. Eventually, she either gets tired and gives up or figures we aren't letting up, because she flops down and makes sure that the scruff of her neck is pointing the other way. And she was the one my husband thought was stupid.

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amaresu
2009-06-19 04:36 am UTC (link)

The smaller one, Raven, has decided she's such a lady, the rest of the world needs to open the door FOR her. And if you don't, she'll rip up the carpet underneath it.

I had a cat, Tiger, who would just pull at the bottom of the door if it was closed. This had the effect of ripping off layers of the wood. Had to replace the door eventually because she'd pretty much torn it apart on the bottom corner.

My current cat, Snickers, doesn't open door for himself. Even if the door is just ajar and he'd be perfectly capable of opening it himself by headbutting it or pawing it he'll sit outside and yowl until I open it enough for him to walk through.

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vzg
2009-06-28 08:57 pm UTC (link)

My newest cat would meow whenever he'd done something wrong for a little while after we got him. We might hear CRASH! meow at any moment. Now he knows to be quiet, so it may be minutes before I turn around in the kitchen and see him sitting on the table chewing on flowers. And then no amount of yelling can make him move — you've got to run at him like you intend to body slam him.

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