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To: nickcarraway

When did cats first domesticate humans?


4 posted on 06/02/2016 9:36:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“When did cats first domesticate humans?”

They’re still working on it.


15 posted on 06/02/2016 10:34:13 PM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They skipped actual domestication and went straight to various forms of mind-control, like toxoplasma gondii.


16 posted on 06/02/2016 10:36:56 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It started more as a symbiotic relationship in Egypt. The ancestors of domestic cats, the African wild cat discovered that Egyptian granaries were a good source of hunting for rodents. The Egyptians in turn discovered that the cats kept their granaries free of vermin that ate their grain and caused disease. That’s why cats still consider themselves our equals.

CC


23 posted on 06/03/2016 1:33:06 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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