Looking to Adopt - Advice Pls :) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by ERPAdvocate@sh.itjust.works to c/cat@lemmy.world

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My partner and I are recent graduates, and are looking to adopt. I've only lived with a dog briefly and them a cat, so I don't have insight but I'm not opposed. Casting a wide net as I'm the one lacking confidence here, their gung-ho ;~;

Old versus Young? Do breeds determine personality? Behavioral red flags? I know all floofs deserve a chance at love but we're fresh faced parents.

Anything helps, thanks all!

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[-] Jikiya@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

We didn't domesticate cats, as it turns out. They domesticated themselves, or so I've read. Something about the rats eating our grain and the cats coming around to eats the rodents and then getting comfortable being around us humans.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

Yep, I've read the same. And that's why we've been living around them half as long. They needed agriculture for us to be interesting whereas we trained dogs to help us hunt.

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