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[โ€“] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

We mostly just kept them around for the benefits as well! As agriculture took off, rats and mice became a problem, so we'd let cats hang around to take care of them. This was just a few thousand years ago, vs. the tens of thousands of years of selective breeding of wolves!

[โ€“] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Yes, it was a mutually beneficial relationship. But while we've been breeding dogs for so long that they'll die for us, cats are much less obsequious.