This purely scientific hypothesis of mine is usually tested (and confirmed) by what I like to call "The Bathroom Experiment." If I use the bathroom downstairs, I first have to enter the mudroom from the kitchen, and then the bathroom from the mudroom. Two doors. I almost always leave them both open because I'm alone all day and I'm too lazy to shut them anyway (pity for my new neighbors who now can see directly INTO my bathroom from their upstairs window). I leave the kitchen door cracked open about 4 inches and the bathroom door I will shut. If it clicks, the cat outside the door will simply play "catch my paw" under the door. But if that almost completely inaudible final click that means the door isn't fully latched never sounds, the cat knows, ALWAYS knows, it can break in.
In the meantime, where is the dog? Still sitting outside the OTHER door, patiently waiting. He could easily nudge it open or even just squeeze on through, but the doofus knows that is not his initiative to take. Dogs are, in fact, dumber than dirt because they can't THINK for themselves. People think they're brilliant because they can perform so many commands. Big deal. Anyone can be a robot. But a cat, with all nine of its glorious lives, knows the world is for the taking, and uses this seemingly neverending well of do-overs to advance their stealthy skills of breaking and entering. Therefore, the Bathroom Experiment proves not only cats are much more superior than dogs, but it also explains where the term cat burglar comes from.
p.s. As I wrote this, my puppy ate his own poop behind me again, something a cat would NEVER ever do, once again proving me right. Dumbass.
