Daily Cat Lesson: Cats vs

🐾 Daily Cat Lesson: Cats vs. Dogs - Who Trained Whom?

Dogs and cats both became our companions, but they took very different routes.

🐕 Dogs were deliberately domesticated.
Humans selected dogs over thousands of years for jobs: hunting, guarding, herding and companionship.

🐈 Cats largely moved themselves in.
Early farming communities attracted rodents. Rodents attracted wildcats. Humans benefited from having the cats around, and cats benefited from the food supply. It was a pretty good arrangement.

🐕 Dogs were bred to work with us. Cats weren't.
That helps explain why dogs tend to look to humans for direction, while cats are famously more independent problem-solvers.

🐈 But cats DO pay attention to us.
Research shows cats can recognize familiar voices, learn our routines and form strong social bonds with people. They simply communicate differently from dogs.

A dog thinks:
"What are we doing today?"
A cat thinks:
"What are YOU doing today, and how does it affect me?"

🐾 And perhaps the biggest difference:

Dogs were domesticated by humans.
Cats seem to have negotiated a partnership.

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