Comments on: Which is better at escaping, Dogs or Cats? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:39:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547518 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:39:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547518 Hamster suicide is a dreadful, horrific thing.

]]> By: Hypatia's Daughter https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547517 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:33:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547517 I had a hamster that was an escape artist. I kept blaming my son, saying he must have left the cage door open. Until I found the little devil with its paws wrapped around the bars of the door, shaking it until it popped open (looked like a scene from B grade prison movie). I tied wire around the door – it chewed it off & got out again.
Until that fateful night when I heard the cat scrabbling in the front hall. I found the head in one corner and the body in the other.
No video of the hamster escape – and no hamster.

]]> By: jj https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547516 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:57:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547516 I’ll have to agree, the dog was way more interesting. Although, if the dog could have just popped through the fence I’d imagine it would have done that prior to climbing.

I got a cat that isn’t an escape artist, but an intrusion artist. Damn thing can somehow get into any room in the middle of the night. Just to sit on your face.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547515 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:55:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547515 Interesting Freudian slip, Anne… :]

What was impressive to me about the difference is this: Most cats would eventually sqeeze through the hole (if the cat fits). But the variation among dogs is enormous. The other dogs in that beagle kennel will never even try to escape.

The reason I put this up to begin with is because my in-laws have two dogs, same breed, I think they are even distantly related, but one is an escape artist the other is not. The escape artist does not reveal her secrets. She just gets out, usually locking up behind herself. Eventually, we’ll have to set up the camera … But the other dog simply doesn’t even try, it would seem.

]]> By: Anne Gilbert https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547514 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:04:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547514 They both were excellent. The god was impressive, because dogs aren’t natural climbers, yet this beagle climbed. The cat was impressive, because it went right to the heart of the problem, so to speak, although the way it went about doing it was less visually “interesting”.
Anne G

]]> By: The Science Pundit https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547513 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:38:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547513

Its not just a dog, its a beagle. No contest.

Indeed. One might even describe that escape as a voyage. 😉

]]> By: Arjay https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547512 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:43:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547512 Its not just a dog, its a beagle. No contest.

]]> By: Who Cares https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547511 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:14:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547511 The beagle wins this one by a mile seeing the amount of reasoning it had to get through to escape (the cat just found a hole that the whiskers fit through).

]]> By: David https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547510 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:11:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547510 the dog’s escape is more impressive, but the cat escapes to better music.

]]> By: savve https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547509 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:48:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/which-is-better-at-escaping-do/#comment-547509 Cats are actually liquid, trufax!

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