Really they just evolved to be friendlier and more tolerant of humans, they don’t even have to live inside per se.
If i compare my 7 pure-indoor-cats and my 2 “found outdoors abandoned by mom cat at about 8 weeks age”-cats over my lifetime(not all at the same time ofc! i’m neither masochistic nor a cat hoarder), they had completely different stances towards humans; the 8 weeks without humans didn’t make the “foundlings” unfriendly per se, but far less “human bullshit”-tolerant.
i suspect there’s more nurture than nature going on here, but i have not enough resources for a double-blind study with n=500, especially regarding bed space and hands.
Both of my cats came from my inlaws farm where they’re fed but largely not socialized. They both needed to learn that humans are worth keeping around and give good pets and rubs.
Best part is, the cats that came from the farm are great at killing the couple of mice that make it into the house in the fall when it starts getting cold, so we don’t have the mouse problem we might otherwise find ourselves with
No wait, they’re going outside again.
If it was raining when my parents cat wanted to go out the back door he’d go to the front to see if it was raining there too.
You obviously have a vast collection of content. Make a post and share how you keep it organised, where it comes from etc
Think that would interest people? I’ve thought about writing up a “One year of posting to Lemmy” post now that I’ve been doing this pretty much daily for a full year. Maybe if I do, I could include this.
For a while, I thought ‘The Picard Maneuver’ was a Community with how often I would see your posts. Please do.
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If you do, please cross-post it to !fedigrow@lemm.ee.
You know those species of birds that will lay their eggs in the nests of other species of birds so that someone else will raise them and take care of them?
That’s what cats did, but they domesticated us. All those people who “couldn’t say ‘no’ to that little face :3” have been domesticated… myself included.