Need Advice: Moving articles of a sub-category from an established site to a new domain, good idea?

I have a dog training website with some articles in a sub-category about cat training. The whole site gets around 100k unique visitors a month. But the cat articles only make 1 % of the traffic and are mostly underperforming (especially compared to a few years ago).

I hypothesize that google categorized my website as a dog training website. I even rank with articles for dog training queries that have not much dog training information. And that’s why the cat training articles are not ranking. If that makes sense?

Here is my question, as I am not an experienced SEO and learned mostly by trial and error: Would it make sense to move my cat training articles to a new domain in hopes that they rank better there?

(Also, in hopes that my dog training articles get a ranking boost, as the underperforming cat articles drag the site down. I had success with deleting underperforming articles in the past.)

And if I move the content to a new domain, could I link back to my established dog training website, or would that be bad SEO?

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