Nobody is trying to breed intelligence in any creature. It’s just not a thing.
There’s no reason to believe that your “advantages” matter at all. Any of them can be overcome with breeding/engineering, probably more easily than getting to human-level intelligence. The only thing that matters in breeding is how far the target is and generation/selection latency (how fast can selected individuals reproduce).
If intelligence is your goal, and breeding is your main tool, you should probably focus on humans.
No, on two levels:
Nobody is trying to breed intelligence in any creature. It’s just not a thing.
There’s no reason to believe that your “advantages” matter at all. Any of them can be overcome with breeding/engineering, probably more easily than getting to human-level intelligence. The only thing that matters in breeding is how far the target is and generation/selection latency (how fast can selected individuals reproduce).
If intelligence is your goal, and breeding is your main tool, you should probably focus on humans.