It is quite easy for a cat owner to treat their domestic cat as a “dumb animal” and “only a cat”. By contrast cat guardians treat their cats as sentient beings with brains and feelings together with wonderfully impressive senses.
Cats can display pure logical intelligence and learning-by-observation-skills. I think this cat learned how to get out by observing people using the bolt when they wanted to release other cats in the facility for whatever reason. The video reminds us that cats want to get out of cages if we need reminding of that obvious fact.
This smart cat is a mascot cat (I guess that is a resident cat) at a veterinary clinic in Marseille, France. S(he) was put in the cage to show how he gets out.
The behaviour of this cat may surprise a lot of people but it won’t surprise people who know and understand domestic cats. The dog is said to be more intelligent but this does not take into account different types of intelligence.
We are told that certain cat breeds are more intelligent than others. I don’t really believe it. It is more about individual cats some of which are more intelligent than others and some are more confident allowing them to display intelligence.
Cats are intelligent we used to have a cat, Tasha who would ferret in the kitchen bin for scraps for our GSD, Monty. She would bring him things like paper that meat had been in, a used tea bag, she even rolled a nut kernel to him once bless her, he would look at her as if to say you know this stuff is useless can’t you get me something tasty? Yet when she had dropped something between his paws she would look so proud of herself then she would sit and watch him licking whatever she had bought. It was as if she was a mom feeding her baby, she really loved him but sadly she got knocked down and killed by a car I think she was only about 5, she was an absolute darling.