Whether cats or dogs are cleverer is a perennial question. There's no denying dogs normally have bigger brains (especially if they're a bigger breed). But pooches also have more neurons – one golden retriever was found to have 623 million neurons in its cerebral cortex, compared to 429 million for a smaller dog and 250 million for a cat. The dogs also had more neurons in their brains overall.
Of course, it's not how many neurons you've got, but what you do with them that counts. There's more research on canines than felines, so dogs’ abilities are better known. And, of course, studying pet cats is hard because they don't like to go to new
