I mean, this is straight up not true. The closest truly wild house cat is a weirdo that looks like a lanky house cat, and house cat brains are physically smaller and dumber than wild ones. Also need I point out how cats also have their pug versions complete with health issues normal cats don't have?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-taming-of-the-cat/
TL;DR: You're not wrong really, but the comic isn't all that far off either.
The thing I think is most interesting about cat domestication is that wild cats do not meow and a domesticated cat's meow is at a similar frequency as the cry of a human baby.
The real difference is dogs have had about 30,000 more years of domesticated selective breeding.
Yeah, they weren't exactly easy to handle from the beginning.
Actually, current estimates shows us dog domestication happened some time around 30000 years ago while cats were domesticated at the dawn of human civilizations, around 12000 years ago, so less than 20000 years of difference. Also, dogs were domesticated in multiple regions at different times, whereas cats are exclusive to two domestication events. I'm open to evidence of the contrary, of course.
Smartest animal I ever met was my indoor/outdoor cat.
Then again she was brindle and looked like a wild cat.
You should go to the zoo
Do you mean so I could meet primates? Our zoos don't let you do that.
No I mean just for fun
you should go to the movie theater and have a great time watching a movie
More like:
I remember a version of this, but the last line was "you/I must be god!"
Yeah, I've always said that dogs think we're the gods and cats think they're the gods.
They didn't just come inside. They also infected us with brain parasites that makes us like cats, and learnt to meow in specific frequencies that make us treat them like human babies...
They also helped keep grain stores free from vermin that would otherwise have cost countless lives throughout history. Our ancestors knew damn well why they wanted to keep them around.
I don't treat cats like human babies. I like cats way more
They're that good at it. (Also the toxoplasma help.)
Really, it's babies' fault for not staying ahead of the game. With all the germs they roll in and all the poop they produce, they should have something to show for it by now.
My cat told me not to believe these lies spread by dogs.
Cat domestication is mainly about making them small enough so that when they randomly decide to slap your face with their clawed paws you wouldn't die.
Domestic cats aren't shrunken down big cats, the cats we take into our homes were always this size. They originated from Felis Silvestris Lybica, a species from Egypt and North Africa... Which look fairly similar to just regular cats.
Some people say we didn't domesticate cats, but they cats domesticated us.
What if cats are responsible for human civilization by domesticating us?
Toxoplasma gondii, which needs to reproduce in felines, can infect any warm blooded animal. It's been observed to increase risk taking behaviour which could have helped to contribute to the development of human society.
They certainly manipulated us. Their cries attempt to mimic that of human babies in tone and frequency so they can get a response from us.
Barn cats are the natural domestication of cats.
You need a friend to protect your grain stores.
Early domestic dogs were probably ratters, too. The domestication process for both were probably pretty similar.
The biggest difference is that domesitc dogs were then also able to be bred into companion hunters.
what really happened was that a caveman saw a wolf and was like aw good boi
My brain just went down a rabbit hole of of breeds vs strays and whether it's fucked or not and how the world would look if people treated cat breeding like they did dog breeding and how things would change.
I had this comment open for like 20 minutes
Both cats and dogs are bred a lot and not to the animal's advantage. Though I guess dog breeding and its disadvantages are a little more prominent and known than cat breeding is. Correct me if I'm wrong
If it isn't broke, don't fix it
This is all nice and cute but how will fox domestication be represented in the future by these types of comic strips?
There's the famous Russian breeding experiment where they were able to breed domestic foxes.
The problem is that they pee every time they get excited. Which would be bad enough if it was a dog, but fox pee smells god awful.
No offense to anyone who has a cat, but one of the reasons I have dogs is that they'll probably wait until they get really hungry before they decide to eat your face if you die at home alone.
Does that actually factor in? Or do you just prefer the company of dogs? Seems like a pretty irrational fear if you ask me.
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