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Having gotten a couple cats recently, I've ended up down a YouTube rabbit hole of old Animal Planet episodes of My Cat From Hell and It's Me or the Dog, shows where a celebrity animal trainer comes and helps out an owner of a misbehaving cat and dog, respectively, and the contrast in those perfectly matches what you've noticed about cats and and dogs, as well as the wider stereotype. In the cat show, most of the trainer's work is in creating indirect benefits for the cat, including better home environment, a schedule, exercise routine, and such, which ideally results in the cat being able to better channel their instincts towards behavior befitting a pet cat rather than a feral predator. In the dog show, most of the trainer's work is in directly engaging with the dogs and training them to respond to specific commands in specific ways that directly address the exact behavior problems they have. Though the latter does often involve the indirect stuff like routine and diet, too.
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