Is it possible to turn a cat into a dog? Not in the literal sense, of course, but to teach something useful - say, the commands “sit”, “lie down”, “come to me”, to make the cat obey its owner, like a well-mannered dog? A cat lady friend of mine recently asked me this question, after which we got into an argument. If a dog is a pack animal, its genes are subordination to the leader-owner, then cats are completely independent.