[DancesWithCats]

EIGHT thousand years ago! Boy we've been buds a long time. Or maybe even, TWELVE thousand years !

And there are estimated to be 90 million of the little darlings trotting around in our homes in just the U.S. In England I know they are very popular as well and a study was done in the last couple of years counting how many vermin were killed off by housecats and the end result was astounding. Guess we'd all be swimming in mice and rats and lizards if it weren't for Fluffy. I don't let mine go out and roam though. Too dangerous. In England they seem to not worry, though a friend of mine had lost her cat to a fox! Not a pretty way to go.

[xcamel]

The relationship between cats and man goes back tens of thousands of years.. Man gathers food, food gathers vermin, vermin at food is a cat’s easy catch. It’s not “rocket surgery” here. Same with dogs - man feeds dog, dog protects his “easy” food source. Dog stays warm at fire.

[xcamel]

BTW: Up here in the Northeast we have a population explosion of fishers - and it seems domestic house cat is their most favorite food. :-(

Think badger with a really bad attitude.

[Man50D]

Guess we'd all be swimming in mice and rats and lizards if it weren't for Fluffy.

My sister once had a pet named Fluffy only it was a tarantula.

[martin_fierro]

[GOP_Raider]

Rush referred to this a while back when he said “cats have staff. Dogs have masters.”

[Slings and Arrows]

[sweetiepiezer]

Bump

[Daffynition]

I don't know much about the history of cays but I do know how how Persians were made.

[lowbridge]

A Brief History of House Cats

[mom3boys]

[JohnCliftn]

This article is Balderdash.
People did not domesticate cats.
Cats domesticated people.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[R. Scott]

My Killer Katt would disagree with any who dared call her "domesticated". Her father being a feral bobcat might have something to do with it.

[Biggirl]

My cats aways adopted me!