[dirtboy]

mark for later reading

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[Phlap]

Viking Kittys. lol

[goldstategop]

The ancestor of the house cat is the African wild cat.

Its kittens can be tamed and they make good mousers. From there, the cat became part of our lives.

[InterceptPoint]

Researchers know little about cat domestication ...

That's because there is no such thing. The fact is that it's the humans that have been domesticated - by cats.

Just ask any cat. But of course that wouldn't actually work. You would just be ignored. After all, cats aren't dogs - they're cats.

[katana]

Mice eat food stores and cats eat mice. Of course they accompanied sailors on long voyages. But it takes something a bit more sizable and energetic to take on rats, and that what this little bundle of fur was bred for.

[Buttons12]

I think they were “embraced” by humans before they were useful as mousers. Beauty has its own utility. At least that’s my experience ;)

In addition, they are at the same time “hard to get,” in that they don’t demonstrate unconditional devotion the way a dog does...and yet they are easy to make contented, and we humans are pleased when we cause happiness we can view.

They give us the impression that they have very high standards which we are meeting, making us feel very good about ourselves.

Again, just my take. :)

[COBOL2Java]

[AppyPappy]

Cats are experts at torture and killing. They also tend to kill vermin. Best of all, they are usually harmless to humans.

Dogs are great until they decide you need to be killed. We have a horrible problem with feral dogs. Dogs in a pack become killers of things we want, like cattle, sheep and humans.

[dinodino]

The crazy cat ladies are gonna be all over this thread.

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[Daffynition]

[perfected the *amber lamps* look of disdain]

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[rjsimmon]

I call your pathetic Viking Cat and raise you Miaowara Tomokato:

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[SandRat]

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Moonman62]

“We don’t know the history of ancient cats. We do not know their origin, we don’t know how their dispersal occurred,”

...

At least now they have a good idea of where their spaceship landed.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

In the fwiw department we have had hunting dogs most of our life. About 15 years ago, with my last English Springer getting old, we accidentally acquired a cat. Approx 9 months old. Short hair domestic. Tiger is his name because he would kill squirrels, rats, rabbits and pigmy rattlers. He is gray, black with wolverine stripes. He has a “Guaoul” marking on his head. Weighs about 20+ pounds. Even the alligators wouldn’t mess with him.

Two years later, again at Christmas we “acquired” another cat. Calico. Her name is Lady. Doesn’t hunt anything, not even geccos.

Lap cat.

5.56mm

[Texan5]

Now I know why my 4 cats bowed down to worship the Viking Kitty photos-this article says they DO exist...