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Posted on 11/28/2025 3:32:27 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I thought cats domesticated people.
So... which cat snitched?
We have a cat that walked into our house at age 6 Months and never left.
Couldnt get her out.
Shes now asleep on our Doberman.
A bobcat mama and I have an understanding for about 8 years now.
She brings her kittens to the barn.
I leave them alone.
The kittens follow me around and watch while I work in the barn.
They grow up and leave but periodically visit as adults, from a distance.
Not remotely domesticated but plenty friendly.
I supply water and shelter. No food.
Feed ‘em and they’ll never leave you alone. I didn’t need a study to figure this out.
Lol
“To a dog, you’re family. To a cat, you’re staff”. - Ken Davis
“I’m sure pretty sure he’s just going to decide it’s his due and he’ll become just as ungrateful as the others.”
he can’t help it: that’s in his DNA ...
i think the article’s description of humans who cohabit with cats as cat “caretakers” is the perfect description of the relationship ...
...the exact origins of our feline friends have long remained fuzzy.
Sounds about right. 😹 Thanks Diana.
Cats are “domesticated” one at a time. Without that they are instinctively feral. The first reason they are not feral is that being fed is easier than havin to feed yourself. When you are fed hunting becomes sport and not survival. Cats quickly adopt that mode.
Cats domesticate us. They know a good deal when they see it. I take care of three cats that live at my shop. They came to me for food that I provided. They are useless with the exception I have not had one mouse in the shop in years. They like me, I think? They rub me with affection when I feed them. After they do not give a damn.
Forgot to add, like those worthless cats. I pet them in my lap and know the are using me.
When I was a little kid, my dad took me to see his friend’s pet bobcat.
Hillbilly childhoods are different.
That wasn’t the most unusual pet I ever got to meet.
(and he wondered “where I got it from”)
EllieMay
“Dogs eat their own feces and lick their asses all the time.”
And their balls. (Because they can, of course.)
And dogs eat cat feces, too. Right out of the litter box.
“Feed ‘em and they’ll never leave you alone.”
I think it was our animal control people who told us that if you feed them you own them. I don’t know if that’s an actual TN law, or just (sort of) common sense.
I did read somewhere — here on FR, I think — something about cats having some kind of alien DNA. I don’t recall if it was alien as in not native, or Twilight Zone alien-alien.
All cats share the same instincts. ANY cat would happily torture you and disembowel you and kill you, just for amusement, if they judge that they are big enough to get away with it. There are no exceptions to this rule. Only constant bribes of food and attention and toys and sanitation control can save the potential and inevitable future victims... until the feline grows big enough and the opportunity presents itself, and it realizes that it is bored or hungry.
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