Honestly, do you think your Sphynx is smarter then....

[Jacquie]

I have trained Ruby to sit at treat time. I tell her "what do you have to do? as she feverishly treis ti dig thise little paws into the UNOPENED treat bag lol. She backs up, sits down and bows here head but as soon as the crinkling starts POUNCE lol so cute

 

[ypvsypvs]

Cant vote in this pull. I am missing a none of the above.
I am sorry to say but Decibel is the cutest, most loving and funniest cat ever.
But smart or clever she is not.
Her mother and father are half-siblings and it shows.
She is kinda like the child of cletus and Brandine in The Simpsons.
I love her to death but when you all talk about how clever sphynx are, I cannot relate.

This is very true.
Many people speak about the smarts of sphynxes but I think those with experiences from other breed or backyard crosses normally know that sphynxes aren't that smart really.
They are clowns though. Fast but not as fast as most, jumps but not very coordinated if you compare to the best and one of the surest way to tell a cat is a cat they show nothing of. Cats remembers your wrongdoings almost forever. To get forgivness from a cat takes a lot of work if you did something he didn't like (that's just a cat, you have to earn them) but sphynxes forgive you in two minutes or an hour at the most.
Sometimes I think it's all a show. They do all this, miss that easy jump now and then etc just TO amuse us and since have a plan after all but I really agree more with the Cletus and Brandine theory.
Thay are insanelly affectionate, funny and have good instincts but they wont graduate from university anytime soon.
Sure they figure things out now and then but other cats do so much more and much faster normally.

For me it is pretty funny because I do have one of the smarter breeds, abysinnian (mine is with long hair and called a somali though), and a sphynx right now and I'd say a sphynx is one of the dumber so having a really smart cat and one not so smart makes me laugh a lot. Namir figures out the most amazing things and sometimes Darwin learns from watching but most of the time he don't.

I run over the tail of Namir with the wheelchair and I have to use the better part of a week to get his forgiveness and when I do the same with Darwin he run away but 2 minutes later he is on my shoulder purring again or yet again running arund the wheels as I move around.

Most cat's beat them in smarts but none in affection or laughs/day.

 

[ktate88]

Oh I feel they are very smart little creatures! Excellent human trainers, too. I mean come on I get up to give him wet food at 6am just so I can go back to bed. I talk to him in the shower because he talks to me. If he wants something, he talks.

Only thing I haven't figured out is he doesn't like clothes, but its cold!

 

[Gullivers Keeper]

This is very true.
Many people speak about the smarts of sphynxes but I think those with experiences from other breed or backyard crosses normally know that sphynxes aren't that smart really.
They are clowns though. Fast but not as fast as most, jumps but not very coordinated if you compare to the best and one of the surest way to tell a cat is a cat they show nothing of. Cats remembers your wrongdoings almost forever. To get forgivness from a cat takes a lot of work if you did something he didn't like (that's just a cat, you have to earn them) but sphynxes forgive you in two minutes or an hour at the most.
Sometimes I think it's all a show. They do all this, miss that easy jump now and then etc just TO amuse us and since have a plan after all but I really agree more with the Cletus and Brandine theory.
Thay are insanelly affectionate, funny and have good instincts but they wont graduate from university anytime soon.
Sure they figure things out now and then but other cats do so much more and much faster normally.

For me it is pretty funny because I do have one of the smarter breeds, abysinnian (mine is with long hair and called a somali though), and a sphynx right now and I'd say a sphynx is one of the dumber so having a really smart cat and one not so smart makes me laugh a lot. Namir figures out the most amazing things and sometimes Darwin learns from watching but most of the time he don't.

I run over the tail of Namir with the wheelchair and I have to use the better part of a week to get his forgiveness and when I do the same with Darwin he run away but 2 minutes later he is on my shoulder purring again or yet again running arund the wheels as I move around.

Most cat's beat them in smarts but none in affection or laughs/day.

I put smarter than other cats, because all cats are smarter than dogs, but in a way I think your right, I'm just biased... My husband loves them but has always said the bald ones are a little slow, but make it up in leaps and bounds with their personality's

 

[Hairless Blessing]

I do think Izmae is as smart or smarter than young children. She is definatelly more well behaved than alot I have seen.She is a very good baby.

 

[Candys]

My Sphynx is smarter than a fifth grader.

 

[Sphynxaholic]

Sphynx Rule, Dogs Drool!

 

[Boonecat]

My Boone is definitely smarter than my dog, Sammy. This goes back to a kitty quote that admin posted the other day:

"Even the stupidest cat knows more than a dog"

:Laugh: Gosh, I love it!

Thanx again for that one, Admin.

 

[bthomas]

Elvis is a genius- I swear. In an anthropology class I took, the professor talked about animals and their reflections in mirrors. According to her lecture, it takes chimpanzees a couple hours until they begin to recognize their reflection- and no other animal is known to recognize it's own reflection (or so they say).
Anyways, my closet doors are the sliding mirror kind- and at first Elvis had no idea what he was seeing. He kept running full speed into his reflection, then began pacing back and forth.
About an hour later he was sitting on my bed, facing the mirrors. He started to scratch his ear and then noticed that the "other cat" was doing the same thing. Now here is where the amazing part happened, I swear he realized that the 'other cat' was his own reflection- he started to move his foot fast, then slow, then fast again. Then he began to turn his head, stand up and do a twirl- like he was checking himself out!!!!
Freaking hilarious. I swear he is the smartest cat I've ever met.

 

[Zeke8888]

Definitely smarter than all of the choices!!! I have a dog and a meezer that are no match - and the humans can't even come close. It's sad really when you realized that YOU are the pet...

 

[Timmy & the Twins]

Timmy has also noticed his own reflection in the mirror. I think he is super smart, but not smarter than our Siamese, Koko. If Koko had thumbs our house would be crazy. Tim is smart but Koko is smarter.