Air dropped into the wilderness who's most likely to survive? cat or lapdog breed like pomeranian or chihuahua, explain your reasoning
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Air dropped into the wilderness who's most likely to survive?
That pic never gets old
Cats and it aint even close. They frick up ecosystems across the world for a reason. Breeds like poms are way to far from their natural canine build to survive without help from people or other more athletic dogs.
>the wilderness
What do you mean by "the wilderness?"
How about a forest in an unpopulated area of the midwest?
>cat gets eaten by coyotes/great horned owls within a week
>dog gets eaten by coyotes/great horned owls within a week
No pet would survive in an ecosystem with intact mesopredator ecology. A cat is less likely to be overbred for docility to the point of being unable to feed itself if the wilderness is disrupted. Both can become invasive if your “wilderness” lacks mesopredators due to human intervention or because it’s an island with only uncompetitive base stock of natural animal colonists.
The American/anglo dog experience is largely one of overbred varieties and of little feral base stock due to successful eradication campaigns that were mounted to reduce livestock loss.
In the rest of the world, feral dogs will fill the mesopredator niche in the wilderness if the native dholes, jackals, etc are displaced, but feral cats are generally dependent on human habitation if there are canid mesopredators in the environment.
American here (real american meaning northern states)
Huskies are like the third most popular large breed here and pitbulls are the second. We are absolutely familiar with dogs that still have survival skills and eat livestock. The idea that every dog is a drooling slave that cant feed itself is pretty dated because fences and leash laws made dogs need to cuck out to farmhomosexuals a thing of the past. Also, farmhomosexuals might go away soon because the only way to control livestock related pollution is to contain them in a factory farm, and the only way to make them happy like that is to genetically engineer them to lack what little consciousness they have, so in the future non-hunting dogs might go extinct only leaving dogs that will guard, hunt, and fight (at least for pest control duties) and those weirdo “gun dogs” that “hunt” but not really.
>Huskies are like the third most popular large breed
Meanwhile, Labs, German Shepherds, Goldens, Poodles, Rottweilers, German Shorthair Pointers, Aussies, Boxers, and Great Danes are all large breed dogs more popular than the Husky in real life, and there’s half a dozen breeds of small dogs above them in the rankings as well.
Pitbulls and Sled dogs are not overrepresented in dog shelter populations because they are popular. They are overrepresented because they are problem causers.
You’re looking at AKC statistics apparently, when most dogs aren’t AKC registered. Nor are most dogs even eligible for AKC registry because registered parentage and show standard conformation are absent. Basing your views off the AKC’s registry is as foolish as using pitbullinfo’s methodology and counting every shelter adoption or intake as a new dog. If not more. According to the AKC, 4/7 pitbull type breeds do not exist and are just out of standard mixes. That includes the primary pitbull breed, the american pit bull terrier.
Here’s dog populations by puppy sales.
>inb4 its not the breed if its not AKC
Sorry is the AKC our dominant religious institution? Is it a government agency? Or is it a club breeders join that also judges dog shows?
the fact that the akc lists frenchies as the #2 breed is enough to know that an organization that recognizes less than half the dog breeds and registers less than half the dogs in the us doesnt provide stats that represent the real world rather than the purebred snob world. the akc registers ~1 mil dogs per year in a country with ~76 mil dogs at any given time with lifespans from 10 to 15 years. puppy mills alone are estimated to produce 2 million dogs per year and are rarely if ever AKC because the AKC doesn’t register puppy mill breeders.
Even by your numbers, pits plus sled dogs is a single digit percentage of dogs.
They are in the top 3 most common large dogs and of those are the two that still have any hunting skills whatsoever. Pits will go for more dangerous game tho.
Thanks for this. It just proves pitbull attacks on humans are a statistical nothingburger and mostly caused by bad breeding and worse upbringings. Let he who was alive then know, that pitbull attacks have been surging since michael vick and were never a problem before, because of the number of people trying to rescue dogs from dogfighting bloodlines.
Despite being 6% of dogs pitbulls commit most attacks on humans that result in death, especially on young kids and babies. Any attack on humans deserves to be punishable by death. Only the most cucked redditor would prefer an animal over a human child.
>be idiotic “inner city” child
>viciously attack dog
>it finally attempts to defend itself
>minor injuries
>PUT THE DOG DOWN BECAUSE UHH R/HUMANITYFRICKYEAH
As expected of a redditme poster
The r/ is lowercase dumb dogfricker, and it’s called r/hfy. You will never be as trad and chad as us redditGODS.
attacking
God you trannies are so bad at defending your own ugly mutts, the only reason you hate family and babies so much is because you're butthurt you'll never have one
>Nooo you have to kill dogs for defending themselves because muh heckin black babies
Or just be a better parent if you don't want to get natural selection'd out of the gene pool. My parents had 3 pitbulls at all times but then again we're all high IQ.
It's white babies who are most likely to be victimized by these ugly pits but like all trannies you prefer disgusting mutts to white babies. Your mom wasn't a good parent, she was a feminist prostitute who wanted to abort you. Feminist mothers love to get pitbulls around their children so they can get away with murdering them, it's called a very late term abortion.
we gpot mikeyusa over here
Who tf is mikey usa?
That doesn't mean anything, not everyone buys dogs as puppies especially smaller breeds which are much more likely to be bought as adults
>>so in the future non-hunting dogs might go extinct
You're so moronic I have to assume you're a troll. The vast majority of working/herding dogs aren't working on farms anymore they're now just family dogs living in the suburbs. They're beautiful and make great family pets so they'll always be very popular, I'm also in the northern US but in a very white state since it's common to see pitbulls where you live I'm assuming you live in the hood surrounded by blacks.
engineer them to lack what little consciousness they have
Impossible
>Cats are extremely agile and evasive
Cats. A dog is really only good in a pack. Without one it's just fricked. It has less agility to pay off for more endurance when chasing long distances in a group.
Cats are good solitary hunters. And still retain that even when domestic. So if they're let loose they'd be able to pick off small mammals, bugs, and whatever else it can kill. They aren't reliant on a pack or having a pack structure and are just fine hunting alone.
ive never actually seen a dog get hurt attacking a cat in the act of predation. they just charge in after stalking the cat for a while and blindside them.
they only get hurt if they’re moronic and try and fight the cat for dominance. cats absolutely do not last on their own in north america or anywhere with better predators. they’re not fearful enough and evolved for an environment where even if they get heemed humans are keeping the shit genes alive for them. ironic that an animal loathed for its effects on exotic birds in hawaii is so much like them, totally unprepared for medium sized mammalian carnivores.
The cat would eat the dog.
I like dogs but let's not pretend a pom is still in touch with his wolf roots.
When I see a chihuahua this time of year I can't help wondering how he's not just frozen solid.
If an adult can be eaten by a golden eagle it is not an apex predator except in an arbitrarily demarcated domain. Simple as.
What is it about housecats that inspire delusional praise? Catgays even convince themselves that cats are smarter than dogs despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Now they’re convincing themselves that a domesticated animal is an apex predator because they breed in their shed and wander off into the woods, die, and get replaced by another batch of shed cats.
Is it the infant mimicry?
Domestic cats are an invasive species across the world. Domestic dogs are not. Clearly, they're doing something 'right'.
>they breed in their shed and wander off into the woods, die, and get replaced by another batch of shed cats.
Yeah, that's how nature works.
They’re not doing anything. We’re doing something wrong.
In the third world, where people let dogs roam and breed like cats, they are also causing extinctions and behaving like an invasive species. They mogged australia so hard they became the sole apex predator there. Because humans killed or sufficiently weakened everything else and lit the environment on fire. So there’s nothing else left to be at the apex.
When you continuously pump massive numbers of an animal into the ecosystem, AND feed them so they dont starve to death, shit happens.
Please explain how something (dogs and cats) that is food for coyotes that are food for wolves that are food for pumas and bears is at the apex or anything.
Reminder
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/96/5/981/914554
Dogs and cats are inferior abominations and so useless a mid tier scavenger and rodent hunter basically exterminates them.
Cat, hands down. No question. Housecats are actually the most prolific predators on Earth. Most predators only hunt one or two species, cats hunt anything smaller than themselves. Birds, bugs, rodents, anything smaller than them is prey. They're better at hunting, they're better at hiding, they can climb trees. I have two cats and a dog, if my home was broken into while I was out my cats would go outside and hide in the area. My dog would almost immediately be caught by animal control. The cats, they'd have to leave traps for. My dog would likely walk right up to them.
Little dogs are much easier prey in general. Dogs in general are too tame for that setting. A cat could survive very well in a forest provided there was sufficient prey, but there's actually the possibility if there were no predators for the cat itself the cat could easily decimate the population of every prey animal present.
Those breeds are like a person bread to be a deformed midget with down syndrome for generations. Cats are invasive everywhere there are people, and it's not even like they need us.
It's like we didn't even domesticate them. They just like hanging out and we chill because they eat pests.
Dogs are pack animals, just like us they aren't designed to operate solo. So, on its own a cat wins since it's more adaptable. If the dog can find a battle buddy it'll outlast the cat thanks to the power of friendship and being able to hunt as a unit.
The cat can easily find some bobcat or ocelot group to be a part of
The pom and cat would both die pretty much immediately, Coyotes would eat them. Game over.
I have a normal husky, and he catches and eats cats if left alone outside to his own devices. Cats are extremely stupid and unknowingly bank on dogs either being retriever and herding breeds with no fighting or real hunting instincts (because letting your dog catch whatever they see is "illegal poaching" - just because a dog is called a hunting breed does not mean it was bred to do any real hunting), or being socialized with (read: traumatized as pups by) housecats and fearing them. Housecats instincts are extremely dull and the dumbest coyote in the woods would pick them like low hanging fruit.
Do you see invasive cat populations in north america? No. Once robbed of crazy cat ladies and garbage piles, and the continuous resupply of lost pets ceases, leaves, or is too far away, the population is immediately annihilated.
There is a reason the only places cats and dogs are really "invasive" are islands with no mammalian predators. Domesticated animals are permanently nerfed.
You must not know about barn cats who survive everywhere and wild cats like bob cats and ocelots
The entire point of a barn cat is the barn.
Guess what happens when they leave the barn? Coyotes.
>existing in the vicinity of cats without attacking them is le traumatizing to doggos
what a neurotic, fragile creature you've decided to make your whole personality
No one said that. Everyone knows dogs eat cats if they're not moronic. Cats are prey animals, it's why they're so skittish.
Did you bring up making animals into personalities because you made how unintelligent cats are into yours
>No one said that.
>or being socialized with (read: traumatized as pups by) housecats and fearing them.
my favorite critters need cats to be socialized for them, not the other way around. try again.
Cats are predators, they're obligate carnivores and hunt smaller animals, dogs are bad at hunting them, they're too fast and too much trouble for thier worth
>Dogs are bad at hunting them
Dude, literally every predator on earth that is large enough to eats cats. Especially domestic ones, because they're painfully stupid. Same for domestic dogs. Wild canids will eat domestic dogs but not their own natural species, because domestic dogs look and smell too different, and are painfully stupid compared to their wild cousins.
Wild cats are a bit smarter, but subadults are still typical prey for basically everything.
Dogs are notorious for at least chasing cats (incomplete prey drive), and the more "natural" ones kill them, unless they're raised with them. It's unsurprisingly common. They're just pointy rabbits in a dogs mind. It should be common knowledge - huskies kill cats, malamutes kill cats, akitas kill cats, greenland dogs kill cats, karelian dogs kill cats, jindo dogs kill cats, borzoi kill cats, any large terrier kills cats, most pointers kill cats, etc.
The most common event that occurs when a dog is raised around cats is the adult cats scratch it, so it's easily bullied by cats in adulthood.
I've only heard of low IQ aggressive dog breeds killing cats
Maybe you mixed that up with hyper subservient OCD obedience cuck herding dogs being unable to kill anything due to being bred to live in peace with their natural food source, and mixed it further with your biased belief that attacking cats, a natural source of food, is "aggression" and not totally justified and natural hunting and the complete moral equal to the feline activities you condone such as the needless slaughter of wild rodents, birds, and reptiles.
My dog is very smart and learns tricks rapidly. They also kill cats. Cats are vermin, so good riddance, and it saves me a bundle on dogfood. Based is the pet that can eat without the kibble industry. Rural life has been going like this lately.
>Be feral cat
>kill a few rats
>there are still rats of course
>leave half eaten rat corpses laying around, also dead birds
>attract more rats, so they start breeding, creating an infinite supply of rats
>cat: i will never want for food again
>human: fido, kill.
>fido: you don't even have to ask
Livestock gaurdian dogs are smart enough to know not to kill animals who aren't a threat but they will kill pitbulls, wolves, and anything else that threatens their herd, that's high IQ, a lot of small breed dogs are also intelligent. Your dogs are violent morons
>a predator not killing its food is high iq because i like its food
>OMG YASSS MITTENS SLAY DAT… songbird
moron. There’s no intelligent reason not to eat cats. Why do you think coyotes are so smart? Eating cats actually raises your IQ.
That is in reference to wild cats that eat bugs.
>"Cats are not only curious but they are also successful hunters. So much that, according to a study done in Australia, domesticated cats kill their prey with a 70% success rate. In turn, outdoor domesticated cats are among the most successful feline predators in the animal kingdom."
>"Jaguars run the Amazon. Lynx rule the tundra. And domestic cats eat 3 million chickens and more than 20 billion rodents and birds every year—just in the U.S. Let's find out why felines in almost every ecosystem are considered apex predators"
An apex predator is not a b***h that’s food for 50 other things. Nor do they need a human supplied overpopulation to maintain their existence, or invasive status in an ecological wasteland
You might as well call invasive rats apex predators because of how many bugs they eat.
Siberian tigers and grizzly bears are apex predators. THEY EAT FRICKING WOLVES. Housecats are low tier mesopredators like weasels. Housecat worship is fricking moronic. Think for yourself, toxo drone. Its an apex predator but a b***h tier jackal eats it and it cant maintain a north american population without human help? Coyote food is not at the apex of anything.
Cats eat rodents and birds. Coyotes eat cats. Wolves eat coyotes. Bears eat wolves. Which animal is at the APEX (tippy top)?
Coyotes aren't smart at all and neither is eating cats as they carry parasites with them and make animals who eat them sick
>coyotes aren't smart
not only are coyotes traditionally associated with intelligence, they are more intelligent than domestic dogs, which are themselves many times more intelligent than domestic cats.
>eating cats is not smart
all wild animals carry significant amounts of parasites, either accumulated from prey, or from grazing on feces/urine contaminated vegetation and all the slugs and bugs within and drinking contaminated water (which is pretty much all water found in nature). this is why carnivores such as humans and canids have powerful stomach acid, fast digestion, and a food acquisition method where there is a lot of wiggle room between the least it takes to thrive and eating all day so they can better cope with parasitic loads. you could even say cats aren't smart for eating rodents then. rodents can often count parasites as a significant percentage of their body weight, and they scavenge high value food all night (including half eaten rodents left by cats) to compensate.
even wild cats, which are more wily, intelligent, and larger than domestic cats, are hunted as sub-adults by every larger predator in their natural habitat. as the domestic cat is disordered and stuck in a moronic sub adult phase with more kitten like behavior and less wariness, they are naturally prey to basically everything. furthermore, domestic cats are less likely to have a parasitic load as large as a wild animal because they most likely spent a decent amount of their time either eating kibble or scavenging garbage.
it is natural and normal, if not ideal behavior, for an animal to eat housecats. even domesticated dogs will eat housecats. they are easy prey.
>but they can defend themselves!
so? a deer can put its hoof through a canid skull in one strike and rabbits can kick hard enough to rip open skin. wolves hunt moose. you know how well those can defend themselves?
Livestock guardian dogs dont have hunting instincts until the point they’re about to starve to death and are too weak to hunt. Thats because they protect food.
They starve in a world without humans.
They'll be the last to starve, they have the instincts to take down animals bigger than them so while others scour the ends of the earth for evasive cats with little nutrition, depleting thier energy, lsg will eat for weeks on some huge elk
>huskies
>low IQ
Simultaneously fast learners and stubborn workers. They’re what cat people think cats are.
>aggressive
Lab tier even with the wolf mixes.
Cats are just prey for the same reason anything that’s physically able will kill and eat the husky. Deal w/ it by keeping your door closed.
Huskies are notoriously difficult to train. I have both dogs and cats and some of them are the breed that constantly gets ranked as the smartest dog breed and they've never tried to kill or eat cats, they're too smart for that
You have a herding dog with its prey drive replaced by OCD. It is instinctively incapable of feeding itself and would die after one week in the wild even without predators.
I have had many huskies and they learn easily but never listen without food present. They are smart enough to kill prey animals. What kind of idiot dog can’t grab some angry vermin by the spine and shake? Meat is meat.
You do realize your cat bird comparison is valid but disagrees with you right? Cats only kill off birds that didnt evolve to deal with predators. Cats were forcibly mutated so they can’t deal with predators. Same difference.
So again, who do you think is more likely to survive in the wild? Dumb huskies running to the ends of the earth to find the little meat cats have or livestock gaurdians who have the drive to go after much bigger animals? Work smarter not harder
Anon, huskies run down and eat literally anything that isn’t a dog or person. They go after cattle, sheep, goats, deer… cats are just there because they’re so stupid they don’t try that hard not to get eaten.
The entire point of an LGD is that they do not hunt. They fight other predators.
If they're stupid enough to eat cats, they'll eat smaller dogs too. Cats are extremely agile and evasive, many dogs go after cats just to end up on wild goose chases to nowhere
>nooooo eating cats is too hard they're like super special and you cant just-ACK!
lmao cats are fricking morons
These are overweight, any overweight animal would be btfo by lean wild ones
holy cope
cuck puppy
>oh nooo cats are scratching me what do i do 🙁 i'm traumatized forever
chad lizard hatchling
>THREAT DETECTED. BITE BITE BITE
Cats are easily in the top 3 most successful predators on planet earth not including insects.
i could kill every single cat in existence with my bare hands and eliminate your fantasy head canon list with my own
what now?
go away dogschizo
>moronic lapdog and instinctual semi-feral killer will both die day 1 because my husky eats a gorillion housecats everyday, therefore any cat that steps foot outside will be instakilled because no prey can ever survive in the wild they all get eaten
Least delusional dogschizo.
Accurate considering coyotes cause local housecat extinctions. Cats are dysfunctional and only look cool compared to shit like golden retrievers.
No more than dogs that still have prey drive. Regardless neither pet is as intelligent or healthy as a real animal and will get ripped to shreds by every predator in the americas plus any that are still left in eurasia. If a husky or other natural-ish dog would die, so would a cat. The only places on earth cats are genuinely invasive and remain so if humans cut them off are the same places domestic dogs are able to survive on their own.
>Songbirds cannot survive in the wild considering housecats cause local bird extinctions. Songbirds are dysfunctional and only look cool compared to shit like chipmunks.
This is what you sound like.
>most of nature is full of things that are so much stronger, faster, and smarter that it
I could say the same thing for squirrels, every single bug, small birds, possums, rabbits etc. Oh nevermind i forgot those are all extinct because of coyotes my bad.
>it stands the same chances as a pug,
Lmao a pug will die in it's own house if you forget to feed it. Now i know you're an actual schizo.
The cats are in your walls.
House cats aren't even close to being extinct. What do you have against golden retrievers? They're high IQ, easily trainable and used as search and rescue/as service dogs
Golden retrievers lack almost all of their predatory instincts despite being a carnivore. They are equipment, not animals. They fail basic intelligence tests that wolves have a 100% pass rate on. Their “training IQ” is just a disordered reward reinforcement system. At least the dogs that eat cats are a little closer to acting like the real animal they descend from.
I’m a catgay, but a real catgay. I see breeding domestic housecats as a form of animal cruelty. The real cat stops being prey for anything in adulthood. Unlike housecats, which can even be eaten by huskies, and were purposefully created for no good reason at all.
it doesnt matter how good your pet is at killing city vermim and exotic birds that evolved for a predator free environment. most of nature is full of things that are so much stronger, faster, and smarter that it stands the same chances as a pug, and all of them are used to hunting its closest wild equivalent, moronic kittens. have you seen the video of coyotes snatching cats from a small colony without the other cats noticing?
>>the same chances as a pug
You wish, pugs can't even breathe correctly let alone run and hide, they're the most pitiful prey ever
Lapdogs aren't moronic, poodles always test high for intelligence
Poodles are water hunting dogs you pug (pug = dysgenic moron).
shut the frick up you… minuet cat.
>lapdog breed
This is kind of vague. Some lapdog breeds, like Miniature Pinschers are known for their hunting abilities. Even Yorkshire Terriers and other smaller dog breeds are known for being good at hunting mice. Chihuahuas are a very old breed with Aztec roots. There are a ton of homeless Chihuahuas in California, they find a way to survive somehow. I don't know much about Pomeranians, but they actually are smart and can be trained easily if you can believe it, I'd imagine some would take to hunting small animals fairly easily.
are a ton of homeless Chihuahuas in California, they find a way to survive somehow
They survive because people feed them, they aren't viewed as a threat and many people especially women think they're cute. The dog with the worst chances of street survival is unironically a pitbull, they're seen as a massive threat and will be shot and killed or captured and euthanized when spotted
This is also why so many homeless cats survive, not being seen as a threat is so underestimated
Poms are really smart and easy to train. I take mine hunting and fishing sometimes. She will fetch doves, flush rabbits, and chase squirrels. She's really good at spotting snakes and gators and knows better than to go after them. When the chickens get out, she'll catch them by the tail and hold them until I grab them.
Depends on the wilderness but if it's not some freezing climate then most likely the cat.
Cats can live off of birds and rodents for years, can climb trees, jump high as frick(as well as from great heights) and are extremely agile.
This particular dog can't do shit other than be loud and obnoxious. It can't hunt birds or squirrels or rats, it can't climb a tree when chased by a stronger predator and it can't jump 15 meters from the tree down to the ground and continue running as if nothing happened.
Other dogs can survive just fine but these small designer breeds have absolutely redeeming qualities for survival.
>have absolutely redeeming
absolutely NO* redeeming qualities...
>Cats can live off of birds and rodents for years
>It can't hunt birds or squirrels or rats
A lot of small dog breeds make good mousers.
>can climb trees
A lot of cats also kill themselves this way. Most know how to get up a tree, but not many know how to get down. Hence the whole phenomenon of saving Fluffy from a tree branch. I had a cat who once climbed up a large tree and we had to pay someone to get him down. He was crying for hours before help came.
>are extremely agile
Small dogs also can be agile, hence why dog shows featuring them exist. Granted, maybe not as agile as a cat, I'll give you that.
That cat would have figured out how to get down eventually when push came to shove. The "cat stuck up a tree" phenomenon is mostly due to moronic humans making moronic assumptions. Most of time the cat isn't coming down because there are a bunch of strangers yelling at it at the bottom. There's is no way evolution gave a creature the ability to climb but not the ability to come down.
Evolution isn't God, that whole concept is literally a israeli attempt to undermine a religion that they dislike. Natural selection involves trial and error. The thing that pisses me off is that we deliberately created all these moronic deformed dogs.
Cat easily. Dogs are too stupid to be outside alone at all.
Cats die even quicker when abandoned by their owners, honestly speaking. Especially in frosty climates.
Depends on the cat, I got a 15 lb fuffy boy that loves the snow. When I travel, I leave them outside so they don't stink up the house. It forced them to learn how to hunt and defend themselves.
>most responsible cat owner
animals belong outside
animals belong outside by the same caveman tier just so logic that says animals are not really alive and we have a right to kill them for the slightest reason.
he’s right. catschizos need a good tearing down anyways.
>muh apex predator
>a cat chooses because i let them a dog obeys because i make them t. homosexual
>he’s right. catschizos need a good tearing down anyways.
Cats are perfectly capable of surviving on their own in the wild. Anybody who says otherwise attacked by a cat as a child and pisses and siddeds themself at the sight of one.
Faster than this simple furry but lovable idiot?
Nobody with any sense would expect an issue with feral versions of those.
Which wilderness, buddy? Frosty boreal woods would put both pom and a cat down in a few days. They both would freeze to death. Same woods in the summer would let them survive for longer time, and a cat has more chances, of course, since it can climb trees to feast on birds' eggs and can also catch different small rodents. A pom would just starve for a couple of weeks and then would lie down to ride the rainbow. In jungles they both would end up annihilated by local carnivores. In sandy desert they both would die in a few days. In polar desert they both would freeze in a day.
Cat has better chances of survival overall. Though a dog of normal breed would have equal chances of survival. I have seen lots of hunting dogs that were abandoned by their owners - guess what, they starve and suffer, unable to catch anything in the wild by themselves.
The American forest, and remove weather as a factor, let's say temperate spring weather
>in a sandy desert bith would die in a few days
Have cats really lost the instinct to figure out how to find rodents under the sand? This is the habitat they originate from. They would at least last longer due to their ability to not need as much water.
There's a fruit that grows on cacti that's made up of mostly water whoever can figure out how to get one and eat it will survive
Own two cats and pom. The cats are most likely to survive. My reasoning is that coyotes are the most likely predators. The cats can climb trees to avoid an attack and can fight surprisingly well. My big cat regularly attacks neigborhood dogs and sends them running. Even fought off a grey fox that attacked it on my front porch one night. The pom's only defenses are its fur and willingness to immeditately submit to larger dogs.