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.
BUMP!
My cat maintains cats were never domesticated but at some point decided humans were useful, to an extent, and so domesticated us. The one thing they really, really wanted from us was plastic.
As my lil Irish gramma would say ... 'cupboard love. Nothin' but cupboard love.'
One of our cats is a terror to rats, mice, rabbits, an occasional bird. She even bagged a possum. If times were rough, I'm sure she kill us in our sleep.
One morning she had four mice laid out on our porch, in a neat row. she was meowing loudly, as to say "Hey, look at this!"
But I like rocket surgery, it’s messy and loud.