A study conducted at the Bristol University has founded that the people having cats as pet are more likely to be more intelligent than the people having dogs as pet.

The University conducted a poll on the 2,524 households and found that 47.2% of those with a cat had at least one person educated to degree level, as compared with 38.4% of homes with dogs as pet.

But few examples stood as exceptions to the findings of the study. It was found that the great scientists like Isaac Newton and Sigmund Freud also had dogs as pet. Even Sigmend Freud's Chow-Chow , Jo-Fi, used to calm the nerves of anxious patients before psychotherapy.

Doctor Jane Murry, who conducted the study further informed in his report the pet ownership in UK was greater than what was earlier expected. Last time the cat and dog numbers were estimated in the year 1989 in a scientific peer-reviewed journal, which stated that there 6.2 million cats over 6.4 million dogs.

Bristol's Department of Clinical Veterinary Science has found that the populations of the animals are now about 10.3 million and 10.5 million. By overall estimation 26% of UK households owned cats and 31% owned dogs.

Further it was found that the persons who loved dog were more likely to be male, living in rural areas and under the age of 55, whereas the cat owners were likely to be female and were living in smaller or single person households.

One more thing for the choice of animal was the age factor, which revealed that the cats were more found in the houses with children less than age of 10 years.