Are Cats Really Wild Animals? Experts clash over whether they count as a domesticated species.

Slate ^ | July 5, 2015 | David Grimm

[Darksheare]

Cats are lithe carnivorous quadrupeds that condescend to live among humans while maintaining a standoffish air.
And some of them are just.. well..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJX7fxz-f4

[longfellow]

I would love to see a lion do that.

[Steely Tom]

This is the sort of thing liberals should be occupying their time arguing over.

[Snickering Hound]

[Darksheare]

“Dis my bowl. You no touch!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY
Big cats like boxes too.

[ETL]

Gang of Feral Cats Attacks Woman, Dog in France
Jul 27, 2013
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/feral-cats-attack-130727.htm
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Run-Ins With Aggressive Black Cat Have Pearl River Residents On The Lookout
July 6, 2015
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/07/06/pearl-river-cat-attacks/

[Noumenon]

Domesticated? Really?

[ETL]

[rlmorel]

Cats and dogs are different. Dogs have a non-domestic/wild component that is rarely seen by most people who have dogs, even though it is indisputably there.

Cats, on the other hand, have a rather large, non-domestic/wild component that almost every cat owner has seen occasionally, if not frequently.

I see very little difference between a domestic cat and nearly any large cat such as a tiger except physical size, the domestic component, and the distance to the non-domestic/wild component.

Dogs are like people in many ways.

Cats are like cats who like people.

[ETL]

[poobear]

Oh, I dunno. My Snow-shoe kitty is rather docile when her belly is full. But she goes into full Tasmanian Devil blur when another feline enters our block! 50/50!

[rbg81]

Cats don’t need us? Disagree. If you feed a stray cat, even once, it will attach itself to you like super glue.

I’ve had both cats and dogs. Used to be a dog-lover exclusively, but cats have their good points. They are a lot lower maintenance than dogs.

[edpc]

They are our Overlords.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Ping!

[central_va]

In Korea they like cats - with garlic and soy sauce.

[GOP Poet]

:)

[windcliff]

ping

[snarkpup]

I read somewhere that the difference between dogs and cats is that if you die, your dog will wait longer before eating you.

[Veto!]

Some wild animal clumped across my bed last night…thought it was a dino, but it was AndyCat. I’m NOT kidding, I had the impression that he was some very ancient species.

I accused him. He didn’t deny it.