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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (12 children)

I've heard just as many Cat owners be pissy about their cats' subtype

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There is a cat fancy, purebred cats exist, but there is a population of normal cats in the world that haven't had their genes mangled, where there really isn't with dogs. Every single dog in the world is a something something mix, whereas my cat is "a grey one."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cause cars haven’t been domesticated, just tamed or whatever. If cats where domesticated to the extent of dogs we would have way more breeds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It might be more to do with dogs having a very high degree of genetic plasticity, unusually so. I remember an interesting paper on it. This just doesn't seem to be the case with cats.

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