There are cat people and dog people, as everybody knows, and it’s a waste of time to try to come to an agreement about their different preferences.
There are few topics about which people very rarely change their mind and their liking for either cats or dogs is one of them.
Someone, for sure a cat lover, once said that cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?
It’s practically impossible to train a cat to come or sit, while a dog learns that behaviour quite easily. Does it mean that dogs are more
intelligent?
Cats learn to use litter tray with almost no training, while for a small dog to do the same takes more
persistence than the majority of owners can invest.
Does it means that cats are cleaner a more proper than dogs?
Of course not, simply they are different kinds of animals and I do think we should stop to be victim of Walt Disney’s syndrome, which consists in attributing to animals human feelings and features.
Dogs are social, gregarious animals genetically happy to live in packs and pet dogs identify their owners as the leaders of their pack, they are more attached to the group than to the territory.
Cats, on the opposite, are not gregarious and they don’t develop any pack structure where leadership has a fundamental role.
Cats are solitary, independent animals, they hunt alone and they are extremely territorial.
Dogs can learn from punishments, cats don’t learn from punishment, because they simply avoid the source of a punishment, as their presumed owners (cats cannot have owners in reality).

I have read somewhere a funny and a little paradoxical definition of the difference between cats and dogs, which, like all paradoxes reflects reality quite well.

"My dog looks at all the things I provide for him and says:  "You must be God.

My cat looks at all the things I provide for him and says: “I must be God."