my cat is WAY better at sleeping and eating than my dog.

Because they are harder to train than dogs, and most people don't have the patience.

Cats are more independent, to them you are their pet, you do tricks.

Cats are more independent and cats dont live to please people. Dogs, on the other hand, love to please people and dogs consider you as part of their 'pact' or family when they live with you.

Because they find our language confusing.

Cats are just as easy to train as dogs. I have worked with cats for years and have gotten them to "sit", to "sit up", lay down, and other things. The ones I own now sit, do "high fives" and will give a kiss on command. When they are outside I whistle for them. You can train any animal to do what is within it's physical capabilities.

I have 2 cats...they are fully trained. It takes more patience, but I think they see tricks as something they do for a purpose i.e. gettin something out of it...dogs do it just because. My cats can come here, sit down, sit up, speak, shake, lie down, and roll over. They are also fully toilet trained. I have not yet gotten them to flush, but I think that I have made my living quarters the most peaceful given that I don't have litterboxes, I have automatic feeders, and the cats are trained. Just takes patience....and boredom.

I saw some cats do a lot of cool tricks on some TV show. I'm guessing it's harder to train them but it's obviously possible.

Dogs will do just about anything for a treat. Cats, on the other hand, cannot be bribed into doing anything they do not want to do.

My cat does do tricks - they have the ability to learn but need the desire to do so!

I think it's because it takes more patience to teach a cat as they are more independent. They are not slaves like a dog, they are masters. But I have taught many of our cats things, including tricks. I've had a couple of cats that did all sorts of tricks including standing on a beach ball and rolling it around a room, something I wasn't able to teach a poodle.

Canines are pack animals and live more socially than felines.

Cats CAN be taught to do tricks, it just you have to find the right motivation, reinforce your desires with reward, and be very VERY patient.

They can, it just takes longer, and most people lack the patience to train them.

Because they think they own you. In their minds you don't own them and you owe them something all the time. If they don't get what they want they'll just meow in your ear until they get it.

cats can be trained. It just takes patience.

They can be taught. I can't imagine my cat doing tricks though. She's kind of a bitch. She acts like my house is her house and I'm just a guest in it.

"Cat owners often claim that cats are too intelligent to do the sort of tricks that dogs do willingly. Others believe cats are unintelligent because it's harder to train them to do tricks. In this article (on 2 pages) I aim to explain some of these differences and explore feline intelligence and the limitations on feline intelligence." "Many owners believe cats can't or won't learn to do tricks. You have only to watch the cats (the real ones, not the CGI ones) on cat food ads and in movies to realise this is not true. Cats have learnt to jump through hoops, jump from one stool to another and to fetch objects and drop them in a box. A relative's cat learned to fetch a toy of his own choice from his toybox when his elderly owner gave the instruction for play-time (this also kept the floor tidy). Other cats have learnt how to eat food after dipping a paw into a half-full can of cat food, while other cats have learnt this "trick" unaided (pawing food from a container is similar to scooping fish or prizing a mouse from a crevice). The sudden vogue in "clicker training" is for cats as well as dogs. When teaching cats tricks, the most effective procedure is one that animal trainers call "shaping" and which is used with wild animals. You must break down the teaching process into small incremental steps, where each step is easily mastered. Because cats are easily demotivated, the training session must be set up so the cat has a very high probability of doing the right thing. To start with, you look for something a cat does naturally and which can be shaped into the desired behaviour." Source and further information: http://www.messybeast.com/intelligence2.htm#tricks Cat Does Dog Tricks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gKPpXkPzFA