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...Cats as a whole don't need to hide from dogs it is dogs that should be hiding from cats, the most deadly apex predators are cats. Anyway, even a housecat would beat a dog in a dog fight because the dog can't manoeuvre and they rely solely on their bite whereas cats are more versatile in their armaments.
Hmmm..... This actually made me think of something. The fact that cats could and possibly still can fly is established but you mentioned the dog having vestiges of the traits of flight namely in regards to the patternations in some examples. The cat clearly is more physiologically suited to flight, clearly if the dog did try to be or was capable of flight it would be rapidly out competed by the cat. Therefore it may be that cats are more flight like because they evolved from a more recent ancestor that could fly whereas dogs had been grounded by the cat long before.