This. Not limited to cats either. I've noticed the same in dogs and even some cows.
Same rules apply to humans as well. Interaction early on develops personality and intelligence varies genetically by a wide margin.
Same rules apply to humans as well. Interaction early on develops personality and intelligence varies genetically by a wide margin.
Personally, it's pretty easy over time to tell the difference between apathy and intelligence when you spend a lot of time observing interactions.
"People like you" should check your tone btw.
Maybe you do. Behaviorism went out with disco and bell bottoms, and good riddance; more recent researchers often take an ethological approach - Goodall, not that pervo freak Skinner - and what we've learned from corvids only scratches the surface of the extent to which we're lately discovering that animals other than humans are a lot smarter than we tend to give them credit for.
The human animal, on the other hand - well, that you put quotes around "mind" in your comment earlier suffices alone to demonstrate that your confident assumption of knowing what you're talking about here lacks quite a bit for congruence with reality. Hell, I've met crows who proved to have a very accurate theory of mind for me - much more so than you here give the impression of having for them.