Historically it's thought of as more a beneficial dependency on one another. We stored large amounts of grains and seeds which attracted rats/mice. Large amount of rats/mice attract large amounts of cats. Humans keep the cats around to fend off the mice, Cats stick around the humans as they keep a nice supply of mice to eat.
It's extrememly different from the domestication of dogs (basically stolen wolf pups) and most other animals we've domesticated some of which were just passive enough to be handled from the of, others we had to do more pup snatching operations.
Soooo basically, kinda? Like we've definitely domesticated cats *since* but 9,500 years ago it's really up in the air for interpretation.
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u/Biglatice Oct 29 '24
Historically it's thought of as more a beneficial dependency on one another. We stored large amounts of grains and seeds which attracted rats/mice. Large amount of rats/mice attract large amounts of cats. Humans keep the cats around to fend off the mice, Cats stick around the humans as they keep a nice supply of mice to eat.
It's extrememly different from the domestication of dogs (basically stolen wolf pups) and most other animals we've domesticated some of which were just passive enough to be handled from the of, others we had to do more pup snatching operations.
Soooo basically, kinda? Like we've definitely domesticated cats *since* but 9,500 years ago it's really up in the air for interpretation.