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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Cats as well.

If you store grain you get mice/rats, that's true even today(don't eat raw flour), which leads to cats.

Humans realized that fewer mice means more grain and left cats alone. But one theory is that families who let the cats hang around their home more had fewer instances of diseases carried by rodents, which further led humans to want cats to be around.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We were pretty well domesticated by the time they bothered showing up. Cats wouldn't put up with our barbaric and unmannered ways before we invented towns.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I was more referencing how cats basically showed up and were all "become more domestic, and we'll move in and keep you safer".

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It's telling that we find lions and tigers as cute as we do small cats. Means cat cuteness isn't a trait that was selected for in them so we'd let them stick around but it could have easily been the other way.