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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (24 children)

What's really interesting is to look at the time scale when each our pets were first domesticated. Dogs domestication happened between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, while the cat started becoming domesticted only 4000 years ago. Pretty crazy to think how much of a difference their is in the time it took each of them to become adaptive to human society. Makes you wonder what house cats will be like given the time frame dogs have had.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Based on how quickly behavioral and morphological changes happened in Soviet experiments on silver fox domestication, I suspect that domestic cats are about as domesticated as they're gonna get.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Makes you wonder what house cats will be like given the time frame dogs have had.

Probably more of an asshole attitude

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