Are Dogs More Faithful Than Cats?

Cats can be trained, but unlike dogs they demand tangible rewards such as food, not just lavish praise. A cat's behavior is not set up so that praise alone is a sufficient reward. To a cat, getting a food treat after performing a trick is just like having a success hunting and getting some prey at the end of it.

Cats are often faithful to places rather than people, because their survival depends on establishing a territory, not on following a migrating herd of deer.

Cats Are Often as Faithful as Dogs

Cats are often as faithful to their owners as are dogs, but they display this is different ways because of their different predatory style and different social habits. Cats will greet you with a tail quiver, but dogs may fawn, lick and beg as though they are puppies begging an adult to regurgitate food after a hunting trip. Cats greet you as an equal though a really affectionate cat may roll over and present its belly for grooming as though it is a kitten greeting its mother.

The biggest difference is that dogs are obedient (faithful) to their pack-leader by nature, but a cat's faithfulness must be earned and can't be bullied into it. Once you have taken time to earn your cat's affection and devotion, you will find it just as faithful, or more so, than a dog.