Do Cats Have Object Permanence. Imagine that you put an object in a cupboard. Yet dogs still rank high, higher even than cats.
What animal has the best object permanence? If you were to throw a blanket over your cat’s favorite treats, it would still know that the treats were there, and not just because it would be able to smell them! In controlled experiments, cats showed that they had fully developed concepts of object permanence, meaning that sensorimotor intelligence is completely developed in cats.