Well, they're keen hunters and often play with their prey for quite a while, batting it up and down, back and forth, pouncing on it again and again, before finally killing and partially consuming it. Of course, this works as evidence only if you accept cruelty as a function of intelligence...
teh l4m3 | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 10:53 pm | #

...or intelligence as a function of cruelty
Pisces Iscariot | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 12:46 am | #

I produced no evidence for much the same reason that I do not produce evidence to support the proposition that the sun will rise in the morning or the fact that Melanie Phillips is a gibbering hysteric.

But remember, dogs may be friendly, but cats are gods.
Justin | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 3:22 am | #

I can't wake up without mein fuhrer alarm clock.
Seth | 01.24.07 - 3:56 am | #

Of course cats should be worshipped. The Egyptians knew all about this and named it appropriately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas.../Bast_(goddess)
What other creature would get someone to wait on them hand and foot in the hope that it would purr at you occasionally?
dayglow | 01.24.07 - 4:29 am | #

What about Kat Deeley?
Any close shaves with her?
Kieran | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 4:56 am | #

Well, if viciousness is an indicator of intelligence, I have to concede that many many more scars on my body are from cats than from (for instance) drink-crazed historians. On the other hand, the cats have not mastered the art of breaking bottles over my head from behind, so the drink-crazed historians are in the lead in that respect.
Herr Doktor Bimler | 01.24.07 - 6:07 am | #

In this debate about feline intelligence and a cat's claim to deity status, we are overlooking the fact that cats are shit.
WisdomWeasel | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 9:32 am | #

Age cannot wither, nor custom stale
Their infinite variety
Justin | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 9:47 am | #

Cat or Jade Goody - which is more intelligent?
Katherine | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 9:58 am | #

Of course cats are more intelligent than Jdea Yogod - a cat can do two things at once - purr and lick its arse.
Brinx | 01.24.07 - 10:11 am | #

Jade would probably note that cats are so thin because they keep getting sick from licking their own arses.
WisdomWeasel | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 2:24 pm | #

Weasel, you really don't like cats, do you?

I quite like them myself, and I know better than to publicly criticise them. I've done posts slagging off the Brits, the Yanks, the French, the Germans, the Israelis, Pakistanis, Aussies and God knows who else, but not even I am mad enough to insult the nation's cat lovers.

Cat lovers who, as I've said before, are engaged in an activity that is both unhygenic and immoral.
Flying Rodent | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 3:41 pm | #

Oh yeah, parrots...
Justin | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 6:02 pm | #

Cats? Ooh no, can't stand 'em, what with their trunks and horns and big ears and tha'.
wisdomweasel | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 7:04 pm | #