I think you've got it wrong, dogs are stupid.
Now if you're just saying stupid because you don't like then, that's another thing.
I have no preference between the two besides you really have to plan things around having a dog. We travel too much with the kids sporting activities that a dog would be a major inconvenience at this time in our lives.
P. S. Just trying to start some dog vs cat off topic discussion here since you appear adamant about it.
Yep.
IT'S SCIENCE. Dogs are retarded wolves. Actually, they're so friendly because they have a genetic disease called Williams-Beuren syndrome.
Humans can also get this disease. When people have this developmental delay, caused by mutations in a certain region of genes, they also show a variety of symptoms that include intense and indiscriminate sociability.
Basically, when our nomad ancestors domesticated wolves around 20,000 years ago, they accomplished it by picking the dumbest, and most compliant ones and then breeding them with each other. They basically selected for retardation. And for that reason, when a wolf runs across a dog in the wild, the wolf will usually kill the dog because, well... animals do animal things. Animals usually kill retarded versions of that same animal. A wolf sees a dog and is like "nope."
Wolves are smart as ****. You just can't domesticate the smart ones, they'll do things like eat you and maul your babies.
Now I'm a dog lover myself, but it's just a fact of science that your special friend is really "special" in more ways than one. And the reason he's so friendly is because he's delayed and you give him biscuits.
Wolf:
Vs Dog:
