"...when we see them open door"
"...when we see them open door"
Right after cats invented the can opener?
Poor Kitty
When did cats first domesticate humans?
According to Frisky the wonder tigress, two-leggers are only semi-domesticated, which means I owe her an extra tin of extra-special treat food right this minute, and if I want to try to ignore her, she'll wait until 5:00 in the morning to walk around on my head to keep me from wasting time sleeping.
Day one.
“But I need my nightlight!” -Tristan Cameron the Black, furry denizen of my residence.
He also likes running water and stereo music.
Power goes out, he’s devastated.
Doubtful.
In the Middle East and North Africa?
Much more likely.
And the furry little feline overlord says that human domestication is come along nicely and more scritchies.
My kitty has domesticated me from the git-go...
Scene: me, in bed sleeping
time: 0630
Location of kitty: cuddled at my feet, starting to get hungry
Paw-paw-paw means “I want something” (context of the time is FOOD)
I ignore it
She steps it up a notch to lick-lick-lick my face
I ignore that
Then she goes to the ultimate level, picks up my fingers in her mouth and lets go, or, if they are not available, does the same to my hair.
cats are tamed?
this article is written by someone who knows nothing about cats.
cats are not tamed.
cats may tame human “owners”
but cats are never tamed
cats are tamed?
this article is written by someone who knows nothing about cats.
cats are not tamed.
cats may tame human “owners”
but cats are never tamed
NEVER!
The was a grave excavated by archaeologists on the island of Cyprus that contained two bodies 8000 years old - a woman and a cat.
More correctly, about 5,000 years ago, cats began allowing humans to provide rodents for their consumption.
Pretty much common sense. The beginnings of agriculture meant the creation of something that had never before existed: the granary. Granaries were instantly irresistible to rodents, which in turn were irresistible to cats. Cats, seeing the food opportunities human settlements offered, made themselves at home and, as the article states, domesticated themselves.
This contrasts 180 degrees from how other animals were domesticated. The Russian biologist Vavilov once performed a breeding experiment with foxes that explains this. Vavilov trapped a dozen foxes and noted which were least afraid of humans, the ones that didn’t cower in the back of the cage when he fed them. Then Vavilov bred the least-afraid foxes with each other, and again, and within two generations he had bred foxes that would curl up in his lap like kittens. This is almost certainly how, thousands of years ago, dogs were domesticated.