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Cats show us a ton of respect: they don't kill us while we sleep. And they even wake us up several times per night to demonstrate how they aren't killing us.
That’s because if they tried to kill us they would just get bodied. Not really a sign of respect but a sign that they understand we are above them in the food chain
Cats were considered part of the family in ancient Egypt. When the family cat died, the family went into mourning just as if a human member had died. Wealthy families even mummified their cats. Several sizable cat cemetaries even existed. Killing a cat was a capital offense.
This is not the full truth, tho. Most animals were worshiped in Egypt, but being worshiped ment that they were being given as offerings to the gods. Selling offerings (mummified corpses) was a huge business and they were basically breeding cats and killing them at very young age just to bury them. This is why those "cemeteries" exists. Ancient Egypt was not a great place to be if you were a cat... or an ibis, crocodile, lion, ect.
Yeah cats havent really been domesticated when you think of it, any cat could be thrown outside and never let in its house again and it would survive easily. Compared to a dog which would be confused and sad and probably not really know how to catch food as dogs only seem to play for fun when they chase birds or squirrels very few dogs can actually catch food. Cats live alone also where as dogs are supposed to be in big groups so they can hunt down animals to eat so a lone dog wouldn't really catch food.
On the beginning of pandemic me and my partner moved out to countryside. And there was a feral cat, hunting rats, mouses etc. We started to feed him and slowly build trust. I took him over a year to allow us to stroke him. 3 years later he will still go to hunt, but. He wants to be cuddle so much by us. He feels 100% safe with us. His first humans :)
Our two newest kittens, as soon as my wife opened the carrier to let them out in the kitchen, immediately found me in my room and climbed onto my shoulder. Every other cat we've ever had wanted to explore first. The one who found me first spends hours curled up on my left arm, so I'm getting exercise without trying. I'll be watching YT, and out of nowhere, I find a kitten has leaped onto my chest, and is sitting there staring me in the face. He so clearly decided I belong to him it sometimes makes me feel like crying...and before we brought them home, he ran away from me when I tried to hold him. He was the runt of the litter, and more than ten months old, his tail is still short and stiff, unlike his brother...but both have virtually no hair on their ears.
I have always considered that millenia ago, in some village somewhere, some lost kitten was crying mournfully, a toddler girl picked it up, it purred, and that was it, we were lost.
You're probably correct. It's just that simple. Mother cats often abandon a kitten here or there if they deem them unviable. The kitten will cry out to it's mother for days with no response until eventually it dies. Some ancient child probably adopted one of those kittens and thus domestication began.
@@Ulexcool Dude, it relates to cats' personality and behaviour. It's a humorous quote by one of the most intelligent British authors. Here's another one that fits you perfectly in my opinion: "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." The fact that you have taken it literally proves to me that you are not very bright.
@@Ulexcool "It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt." Try reading a book for a change, it might help you in life, but with that attitude I doubt it.
Wellllll somehow bringing racist ideologies into a conversation about love for cats. And cats can't really be domesticated, they just coexist with people. You can't really make cats do sht 😂😂😂😂
Cats let themselves be domesticated, they are different from dogs. the reason why a lot of people think cats are "mean" is bc cats,unlike dogs, have boundries and will only open up to you if they like you even if you take care of them really well, while dogs are friendly in general.
Cats didn’t need to be socialized, they were there for pest control for when people weren’t around, dogs were used to guard and protect humans and property. Cats don’t have the social hierarchies that dogs have and cats are mostly solitary with small or short-lived social encounters. Likewise, a cat isn’t very dangerous: hissing, clawing, biting, knocking things over, giving the death stare when you touch the tummy, etc. it’s funny or adorable for a cat but not it would not be so cute if said cat was the size of a wolf. Cats weren’t fully socialized or domesticated because they didn’t need to be to do their job, dogs had to be both for safety and because they were around people so long (and with humans coopting their pack tendencies). If cats needed to be around humans more or for a separate job, they would have been selectively bred to do so (in just 10 generations a team of Russian scientists were able to fully domesticate and socialize a species of fox just by selective breeding. Cats would have been little different).
@@gideonmele1556 modern cats actually form large colonies when their populations aren't controlled by humans, the social hierarchy is definitely different from dogs and humans but it's not inherently lesser. they are very social creatures but they depend on it less.
@@elliotmydude well, my personal theory is that cats operate a lot more like early humans than dogs, forming very light hierarchies based on profesionalism rather than more rigid hierarchies. Like an "anarchist" assocation of individuals that freely associate together for mutual benefit, instead of the tight nitted heirarchy of a wolf pack.
my 2 cats were strays from the same litter, 15 happy years with them, i lost one of them a few days ago but i’m grateful for 10,000 years of domestication to have had the ability to meet her
Cats were domesticated by showing up. Happens to this day. Strangely enough, I met people who are even in denial about this. "It's not my cat. It's a feral cat that shows up for food and snuggles almost every day. Last winter I sheltered the cat. There is enough room in my bed so why not?" Or "I temporarily adopted the cat five years ago when the owner died. I don't even know the name. The other cats in my apartment are offspring. The babies got temporary names because I don't want a cat. Temporary is important word here. May I borrow your cat treadmill? I'm just curious if those cats like it." Or "I'm not a cat person. Mittens is not really a pet. I keep Mittens around because taking care for him is a remedy to my depression. It's very heart-warming how much Mittens loves snuggles, especially at night. It's well worth the food and vet expenses." I'm not making this up.
TIL that I have severels cats as pets lmao. I am living in a village and when the covid started I saw an adult female cat one day on the street that liked snuggling and hella fluffy. I was like "ok i like you i guess" then everyday I gave him leftovers. After a while I bought more food than needed just to give her more food. 2 and a half years passed and now I feed Flufie's grandchildren everyday. I LOVE FLUFIE and her kids and her kids kids. So yeah I DO have several cats a pets but I just found out today.
Me, feeding 5 feral cats everyday and building them a winter shelter and occasionally letting them nap in my bedroom but still trying not to get too attached: 👁👄👁
i can attest that this is 100% how i became a cat lady😂 i saw my sweet salt and pepper baby and that was all it took, “she’s not my cat i just don’t want her to be hungry or cold so i let her chill in my house when she comes” she’s been here for almost 6 years now😂😂 her names gordita now “little fatty” lol
@@eneskaraytug514 You should consider having all of your pets spayed/neutered. The cost to care them will eventually rise to unsustainable levels if they keep reproducing. No ill intent meant as I love cats and just don't want to see abandoned ones any more.
synchromorph hmhmhm. Your cat uses you as a pillow when it wants to sleep, siphons your body heat and practices it’s moves on you before hitting up the lady cats
My kitty, Little Princess, allows me to scratch her and blesses me with purs in return. (seriously, tho one time she stood between me and a random dog that appeared and hissed at him in what looked like an attempt to protect me. The doggo was shy and actually got scared by her, poor thing. But whenever anyone says cats don't love their humans I remember her trying to protect me from a big scary dog! lol)
When talking about domestication of cats (or dogs), people always forget the companionship/affection factor. Most people know what its like to feel hungry. They see a skinny stray one day and their empathy kicks in, they throw it some scraps. Cat learns to come around for food, familiarity breeds some mild affection... then one day mr ancient man is having a bad day sitting there feeling down, maybe got in a fight with the cavewoman bc he didnt throw the elk carcass away after dinner which turned into an argument about how he never takes out the carcasses AND leaves his bloody spears everywhere, doesnt even wipe them down... So hes sitting there feeling down, and this cute fluffy thing rubs against his legs and meows, and for the first time, instead of just throwing it food, he reaches down and touches it... it likes being pet, he feels his mood lift a little, and a friendship is born :)
Kitties domesticated themselves. They saw a large warm cave with lots of food and a creature that would help it take care of it's babies, and was like "I'm moving in, and I'll tolerate you, I guess" and humans were like "you're fluffy and cute, okay!"
Nope, that's not the way feline domestication went down. Agricultural production of grain attracts rodents which in turn attract cats. The predatory instincts of cats proved useful to humans in controlling rodent populations, and humans engaged in activities that lured in easy prey for the cats, so humans and cats developed a symbiotic relationship through a chain reaction that started with the agricultural revolution.
every time i look at my tiny sweet friend, it is so incredible realizing that i am living with a miniature lion with so many habbits, insticts and behaviours still in common.
Yeesh. No and no. There are two branches of cats surviving (third was Smilodon). The first has the lions, tigers, leopards. The second has the wild cats, puma, serval. Domesticated cats are from the second branch. So your pet may be like a puma, but never like a lion or tiger. Lions don't even purr.
@@KorithStoneheart both can be badder,lion and tigers have their own behaviour but since lions are smart enough to form a group they dont need to be aggressive all the time. BESIDES yes cats are somehow 40% tiger
i stole this, just want to clarify before i get hit with the "stolen" but i just want to share the fact that the first cat that was named in egypt was named "mau" the first person who met the cat probably went human: hey there buddy, whats your name? kitten: mau human: ok your name is mau
In our folktales, cats are believed to be the tiger's aunt (father's sister), she was asked to fetch fire from the humans. But when she reaches the human house, she tasted burnt rice (that sticks to the bottom of a pan) and sweet potato baked in ash ( under the fire). She wanted more and more of it and never went back to the forest. And hence settled with humans.
As someone who’s seen the cat distribution system in action, this story tracks 😭. Cats love human food, just because it’s ours! My cat will even eat sweet stuff if she can, and cats can’t even taste sugar. She just wants it cause it’s human food.
Umm . . . My cats domesticated me. I no longer run wild, sleeping and eating wherever. It seems the same time I got my first cat I began cooking my own meals and sleeping in my own bed more often. What was once a cute animal to watch became a companion. I even started talking to an animal, looking for answers in a cat's eyes. Somehow I decided to bring more cats in, even though it seemed illogical to have more litter boxes that I had to clean more often, along with buying more cat food. Now if I have to sleep away from home my first order of business is "find someone to care for my cats".
Oh god, tell me about it. there's this stray calico cat that stays outside my house all the time, we first started to feed her scraps, she was nice and very friendly, she's been fed by other residents but mostly stays in outside our home since almost all of our neighbors have dogs, except for us and there was just something about her that i was like, give me cat food, and so I did. Now I have a strict feeding schedule, and she'll meow until she has her food, and she isn't even my cat.
Yeah... I adopted a blind kitten years ago to keep company to my dog while I was at work. Now I'm owned by 5 cats and 3 dogs, and I couldn't wish for a better family
@@themanicman8458 Incidentally, the exact same can be said about humans. These close relations of the Chimpanzee actually domesticated themselves. I seem to recall hearing once that domestication tends to cause certain phenotypical markers, and it seems humans also have some of those - now if I could just remember the details ...
Domesticated doesn't necessarily mean dominated into submission as in the example given in the video, which I'm suspecting you didn't watch completely.
I love that house cats are great companions who still maintain some of their wild ancestry. There are times when my cat shows his wild side, especially at dawn and dusk, and it's always so fascinating to watch.
Love the discrepancy between how cats and dogs came to be. Humans saw wolves and meticulously sculpted them in hundreds of ways to fit dozens of niches for all the different jobs they wanted them to do. But humans saw cats and were like "you're absolutely perfect as is, keep it up and hang around" and they only really got smaller as their prey was in cramped barns corners and storehouses more and open fields less.
I think it's more like, Wolves raised by humans were chill with being bred for different jobs. And cats refused. Edit the First: Turns out, that's wrong. Humans bred caution out of cats. That's why you can't let your pet cat wander outside, because they're too dumb to know when to run away. Unless you _want_ them to die, of course. Edit the Second: but I didn't do research, so take that with a grain of salt, maybe.
i just adopted two amazing kittens, i have a boy and a girl, and they’re siblings. they’re the most entertaining, obnoxious, fearless, and loving creatures alive. i cannot help but be fascinated by them, they’re truly individuals.
@@KanadianKaiser well we are social creatures! so yeah we will pretty much try to pack bond with anything. it's one thing that's just so pure about humanity
You know I don't think the cats would consider us domesticated to them I think they would consider us enslaved. So it cat folklore probably tell stories about how they Enslaved the human species and conquered the Earth😂 because you know that your cat thanks your bed is there bed and your house is their house right? So in a cat's mind they all live in big warm comfy mansions and don't even have to work earn their keep😂
@@RubberyCat but we do comply with what are cats want if our cat wants out we let them out if they want food we feed them if they want to cuddle we hold them we do whatever they want
@@MollyKuehl4790 As said, humans domesticated themselves, and the cats may think this is standard routine for that human ... which they really don't mind or perhaps even encourages. ^_^
Kinda. Many of them still can survive on their own. That's what I find fascinating about them. They're still natural with the exemption of some breeds (like this cruel short foots).
@@siyacer Not really. Humans selectively bred dogs for a millennia in order to make them express physical and personality traits that were desirable to humans. They were forcibly domesticated. lol
Honestly, having lived with cats all my life, I don't believe they were ever domesticated, rather, we just locked them inside and gave them food so they figured "Sure, this is acceptable" 😆
Tell that to my cat. That dude hates the outside with a passion. He throw a fit every time we try to bring him outside, and would zoom into the house the moment I put him on the grass.
Very True. I grew up with cats everywhere also, and our cats where badasses and extremely independent, They lived inside and outside the house and usually brought us some small animals mice or little birds and made them watch as they tortured them...
@@OudPlayerHBY So they did the job they were hired for? Cats were kept around to keep the vermin down and on farms in my area they are still kept in large populations to do exactly that. These aren't there to pet them but to work. We feed them so they got the energy for it and they keep hunting even when not hungry. They are more independant because that's what we wanted of them... Why are so many people here thinking we tried to make a dog 2.0 with cats even the the video itself explains it.
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” - Hitchens
i just love the concept that humans have always just been looking at these little dudes and going "yeah i think i want one" and cats are like "if you feed me i will tolerate you" i love cats so much T_T
I've watched lots of these videos and I think this is the first time the presenter seemed to have an actual personal connection to the topic. I'm not much a pet guy myself but I still appreciated the little eye rolls and inflections that made it clear you had a pet cat and you cared about it, despite the litter box changing and the laundry peeing.
I always cry about cats and dogs found buried with their people because archeologically, it tells us how loved and valued they were, but it makes me sad to think about the animal being killed just because its owner died.
I think the same thing too, but I imagine they thought they'd both be happier together in the afterlife.... Or maybe they didn't care about the cat at all, and I'm just making excuses for them.
@@Luthiart they did care about the cat, you just gotta realize the difference in culture. to them the idea wasnt "we all meet up happily in heaven eventually :)" because those religions hadnt even been conceived of yet, if you wanted to live forever after with little mittens then mittens had to be buried in the same hole as you. That was just how they thought it worked, and honestly we'll never know who is truly right.
oh what a piece of wisdom it is to know that people this long ago loved their cats and all their little shenanigans so much that they got buried together
@@harrisonwilkes8914 Yeah, that ruins the sweet sentimentality of it. Human belief systems have always been dumb and detrimental to the local wildlife.
WGC300 @lexi same my cat guards me when i workout. Guards outside my room when im sleeping. and does his daily patrols around the property keeping it free of rats. Hes worth more than his weight in gold to me so id say nobody domesticated nobody. Were equals. Were family
You don't choose a cat. The cat chooses you. Sophie adopted me one night while I was out walking. She'd been abused and abandoned by pervious owners and I'd recently lost my boy Mittens. She somehow knew that we needed each other. Starting year 3 this year. She goes with me on walks to protect me and guards me while I do yardwork. She's even chased away snakes, dogs, and alerted me to potential fires in the house. If something is burning she'll go nuts and ram into my leg. I am honored.
@@798jeremy Texas actually. Thankfully the most common snakes at my home are garter snakes and rat snakes, but there have been reports of coral snakes in neighboring areas.
Thanks for this video. I’m making a google slide presentation about cats and their significance throughout history and how we got modern house cats etc. this was really helpful.
They're a real problem. They bring in vets from outside the island to work in spey/neuter and release programs. Still cute, but there's a hell of a lot of grumpy feral cats kicking about.
Nikolay Ivankov thanks, that’s incredible. cats must have always been that cute and cuddly. too bad there isn’t such a thing as time travel just to observe. no interaction t’all. i really wonder what we’d find out. so fascinating . :) 🐈🐾 🐕 🌻
Our cats have always preferred catching, and eating rodents outside. The ones they bring into the house they consider toys rather than food. We had a cat that carried a large (bigger than the cat) very much alive jackrabbit into our second floor bedroom in the middle of the night . The cat let it go, and the cat and jackrabbit went running all around the bedroom. The sliding door to a second story balcony right outside the bedroom was open. The jackrabbit ran out and jumped off the balcony to the ground below. The cat followed and did the same.
@@acninee From a tablet inscription, ~2600 B.C., kept in the Hilprecht Collection in Jena, Germany; as translated by Edmund Gordon outlined in the book 'The Sumerians: Their History, Their Culture, and Character' by Samual Noah Kramer, 2010, page 226. A cat - for its thoughts! A mongoose - for its deeds!
I once had the amazing opportunity to tour parts of Italy, Greece, and Turkey. The part I loved the most was all the cats there were, some of them were very friendly.
I imagine the "domestication" of cats more or less boils down to them being rewarded when hunting rats and other rodents near farms and food storages and sort of just agreed to hang around humans. To early cats it probably felt like an absolute win, they get a hunting ground, a steady supply of food when needed and a safe place to sleep.
it's probably the closest you can get to ethical domesticating of animals, they aren't in a cage or locked indoors, they can leave if they want, however they just happen to love to keep coming back
@@WiliantoMulti My cat Sirius when I lived in a forest sure could hunt! He went and came as he wished and constantly brought snakes, mice and birds, even when we moved to an apartment (a high floor) in the city he still caught a bird from a window! He always came back at night though, and he was best buddies with our golden retriever. Rest in peace, Sirius :(
@@WiliantoMulti When it comes to food Cats are mutual contributors. Cats will come back from their hunts with offerings of food to their humans which shows that they care deeply about our wellbeing.
Wil Rogers cats kill birds and mammals for fun regularly. I worked on a farm and when the last cat died the mammal and bird populations exploded. Cats kill these other animals for fun daily
Just an FYI, when a cat starts to urinate in unusual places, the first thing that has to be done is a trip to the vet. This is frequently a warning sign of a UTI, bladder crystals, or another medical problem. If the vet finds nothing wrong, then it's time to see if there's something new in the environment that's upsetting the cat or triggering 'marking' instinct. Only after these things have been cleared should behavior be addressed.
With “behavior problems”, the first step should always be the vet. I’ve never had a cat with real behavior problems, it always turned out to be a medical problem.
Our first cat was rescued from an animal hoarder. She kept urinating on towels because that's all she had there. She was already very old and the behavior issue was nearly impossible to get rid off at that point.😔 Other than that she was the sweetest lady. As a kid it was extremely hard for me to fall asleep until we got her. She would always curl up around the top of my head and purr really loudly which worked like a charm in making me calm enough to sleep.
There was a cat in ancient Rome who got an entire tomb with his name engraved on it, so we know Romans viewed cats as pets and many felt affection towards them 🥲(they were popular pets for farmers and children I think)
Ancient human: Hey! You want to come live with me? Ancient cat: That seems unfair. What will you do for me in return? Ancient human: Um... Everything? Ancient cat: Well... I was hoping for more, but I guess I'll settle for that.
@@evilpimp2475 cats don't need us, they can find everything they want without us, you can even test this, just stop feeding your cat, he won't starve but he might just leave you.
This is why I’ve always loved cats. They’re still always semi-wild. You have to earn their affection and loyalty over time. I love dogs too, but it’s in their genetic programming to automatically follow and obey their perceived alpha due to being pack animals. As long as you show authority, a dog will usually automatically love and respect you. I love how independent cats are, yet they can be so loyal and loving if you gain their trust.
No, completely wrong. Dogs form familiar bonds, just like humans. They are not pack animals, not even wolves. The alpha crap was debunked by the same person that started it, since further data proved the contrary.
@Darius Kang Cats are the real winners of domestication. They get free protection from predators/the environment, an abundant supply of well fed rodents, AND free human-caught food on top of that. Also headpats and stuff if they're into that.
Cats are pretty well known to thrive in most ecosystems they find themselves in. They explore and adapt and they're proven to intentionally vary their diet and try new things to see if it's better. Even domesticated cats do very well for themselves without human intervention. There is also evidence that suggests that humans bred dogs to catch vermin, not cats. Dog breeds built for that purpose are actually far more effective than their feline counterparts. The most recent research that I've seen supports that cats just moved themselves into the human ecosystem and changed their behavior to get what they wanted from us. If they were anything like my boys, it was probably all about the cuddles.
I had a cat who was totally devoted to me and protective. I had her since a kitten. We loved each other. The thing I don't understand is that she didn't have the traits I hear so often spoken of about cats, like ignoring and not listening, being hyper-independent. Can't figure it out.
It depends on the way people raise them. If they’re raised to be independent, they will be, however, if you raise them with tons of affection and love, they’re as loyal (or even more loyal) as dogs
All cats are different. One of my cats is pretty independent and just sleeps the whole day, but the other is very needy and sits in my lap all the time.
Cats have varying personalities like people. My one cat is very shy and likes to sit on my lab and hang out with me, while my other cat is more independent and pretends that her sitting between me and my laptop is a coincidence
I think we should never forget how many lives these beautiful creatures helped nurture by protecting our crops back in the days when a ruined crop would result in starvation
An Irish scribe wrote this poem in 600AD. "Me and Pangur Ban my cat ‘Tis a like task we are at... Hunting mice is his delight....Hunting words I sit all night."
@@GutPoacher probably alive in some other peoples house or yard or something cats do that a cat of mine was gone for months and then found in another part of the village chillin some months later
“Cats have achieved world domination.” I, for one, accept my master. His name is Pookers. He tells me what to do like letting him inside the house, then letting him out again 15 seconds later, then letting him back in about 10 seconds after that, and then back out, 10 seconds after that, until I get very tired of the whole thing and sit down and leave him meowing inside. Then later I go in to sleep and he lays next to me until morning. We have a wonderful relationship.
Have you considered fitting a cat door? Which is actually a door within a door. And it is with such a level of sophiCATion that our feline over-lords have directed human evolution.
@@mandolinic yes and it just so happens to be that the french doors I have in the yard are 10 x 10 and the auto doors are GET THIS….9 x 9 or 11x 11 I looked for like two days. Nada. Unless of course it’s custom made. Sigh. It’s ok it gives me a reason to get up. What can you do?
My family literally just sheltered our first ever kitten after years of dogs. In less than a month, the cat (Shoyo) already have more photos in our devices than any of our dogs throughout their lifetimes. Cat’s propaganda is too strong.
Watching this reminded me of my cat , he died a month ago. Almost cried & im a 30 yr old man! i m not even a cat person but that little bugger was special. RIP Paul
Wow it’s unbelievable that cats were companions so long ago. What a story that would be, the oldest humans to tame cats. It must’ve been a real deep relationship with the first few.
"For thousands of years, cats stayed near human dwellings for food but weren't necessarily close with people themselves." "Humans actively enticed cats to stay in their settlements." *My cat is laughing hysterically*
Rudyard Kipling nailed it, with his story of how the cat adopted people, "The Cat Who Walked By Himself " from the Just So stories. Anyone born in the 60s likely knows this story off by heart.
Zoroastrians (ancient Persia) revered dogs in much the same way ancient Egyptians revered cats. 🤷♂️ It is actually in their scripture. I've read speculation that the Islamic abhorrence for dogs comes from the fact that Zoroastrians revered them. Possible, I guess.
@@GrzegorzDurda Correlation is often a good indication of possible causation, and an indicator of viable placeholder theories, where evidence is lacking.
@@GrzegorzDurda, in this case, it is, when we discovered agriculture and started using it, rats became a problem, cats followed the rats to eat them, then we domesticated those cute furballs.
I dislike the stench of a household with feline pets, I also dislike the entitlement of cat owners that think they should be allowed to let their cat roam outside.
Trenton Palmer Here’s the problem with that argument, these cats aren’t part of the local ecosystem. If we didn’t bring cats to us, they wouldn’t be here. So it’s completely unnatural for cats to be there. For example, if you bring a pike to a small pond, it will eat most of the fish, and many of the species in that pond will be eliminated. So bad for the ecosystem. But that’s not natural, because it shouldn’t be here in the first place. And yeah things die, but it’s to feed other animals and feed back into the ecosystem. When animals are eaten by cats that already get enough food to survive, nothing gains from it (unless you count satisfying a cats pallet). So no, it’s not just part of natural life. It’s harming the environment.
Yes. It was Saint Helena that brought the cats to Cyprus. So, Saint Helena set sail to the holy places to find the holy cross. She did, however upon returning back to Constantinople, she shipwrecked in another region of the empire, Cyprus. She slept there and the next day she couldn’t find the two pieces of cross that she had brought with her. However, there was a bright light upon a mountain top, where the pieces were found. There, she founded two monasteries (which still exist today). The island was however plagued by terrible drought, overrun by snakes and rats. So, she came back to Cyprus and brought with her many many cats, to get rid of the snakes and rats. And this is how cats saved Cyprus.
@@olbiomoiros there is a wonderful scene set in a Cyprian religious house in the 1400s showing all the cats coming in at night, much treasured by the priests, in Dunnett's novel "Race of Scorpions"
@@Elenrai Yes thee first wave came 9000 BC years ago, but a second wave came in 300 AD with Empress Saint Helena, who brought dozens of thousand of cats more in Cyprus with several ships from Egypt and Lebanon. Those cats arrived to stop the snake infestation that the hundreds of thousands local cats couldn't so she brought another 30000 cats. Today those cats made the race of Saint Helena Cat and the Saint Nicholas Cat, while the initial Cypriot cats make the Cypriot Giant Aphrodite Cat. A fourth race showed up from the intermixing in the 20th century AD. Those cats are called the Local Cypriot Cats. So Cyprus has 4 Cypriot cat Races: 1) Local Cypriot Cats 2) Aphrodite's Giant Cat 3) Saint Helena Cat 4) Saint Nicholas Cat The 4 races of cat Races in Cyprus are big in size and with short hair. Geneticists, Breeders and Veterinarians want to create a 5th race with high standards until 2050. They will take selective ancestors from the 4 Cypriot races and possibly other non Cypriot cats to make it. The idea is to make a breed of cats that will have minimum health problems, being large, short haired, with great variety of colors and friendly. Cypriot cats are ideal as they have been through natural selection for 12000 years now even before they arrived to Cyprus.
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Wish the video touched on how cats have decimated bird populations in recent years.
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Cats show us a ton of respect: they don't kill us while we sleep. And they even wake us up several times per night to demonstrate how they aren't killing us.
Lol yeah, signs showing cats are cute little devils 😂
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Dude I've woken up with my little guy staring at me.....like he's been doing it for hours......contemplating how many bites it will take to eat me.
Tell that to my cat. She sat on my face like two weeks ago and couldn’t breathe my mother had to get her off
That’s because if they tried to kill us they would just get bodied. Not really a sign of respect but a sign that they understand we are above them in the food chain
Cats were considered part of the family in ancient Egypt. When the family cat died, the family went into mourning just as if a human member had died. Wealthy families even mummified their cats. Several sizable cat cemetaries even existed. Killing a cat was a capital offense.
medieval europe could do with learning a few things from the egyptians…
should still be a capital offense of killing a cat. No mercy to those who kills cats.
It still should be a capital offense for ending the life of a cat 🐈!
As it should've been.
This is not the full truth, tho. Most animals were worshiped in Egypt, but being worshiped ment that they were being given as offerings to the gods. Selling offerings (mummified corpses) was a huge business and they were basically breeding cats and killing them at very young age just to bury them. This is why those "cemeteries" exists. Ancient Egypt was not a great place to be if you were a cat... or an ibis, crocodile, lion, ect.
The cat died so its human companion was buried with it
Lol good one
Lmao top comment please 😂
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Someone has to serve it in the afterlife.
moshe dimawala-adormeo I’m pretty sure the dude died and they killed his cat so it can be buried with him lol
I cried when he said there was evidence the cat was taken care of by its human due to the healing in their bones 😭
i was just abt to comment this im dead over it
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I’m pretty sure back then an animal with a wound was pretty much dead unless a human took care of it demonstrating early bonding 🤷♂️
Probably wanted to fatten it up a bit more before eating it.
retualistic
bone
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How cat domestication happened
Caveman: i found this weird small sabertooth its mine now ive named him bringles
One of Hagrid's ancestors.
Lol
They’d name it “ouh”
XD
@@literalcatpee9390 Bob says hello😭
"Here kitty kitty"
--Your ancestors 10,000 years ago
Pspspspsps
no, its like this:
Caveman: *throws bone at cat thinking its dog*
Wild cat: more
@@7_y1ar No, its like this:
Wild cat: prrrrrrrr
Caveman: falls asleep
No, no its
Kskskskksksks
Lmfao you fool 😂😂
Meanwhile, cats are debating whether they have fully domesticated humans.
Exactly 😂
i also feel sometimes my cat domesticated me.
Sometimes when i see a bunch of cats in one area I always think that they having a meeting to when to take over the world
Yeah cats havent really been domesticated when you think of it, any cat could be thrown outside and never let in its house again and it would survive easily. Compared to a dog which would be confused and sad and probably not really know how to catch food as dogs only seem to play for fun when they chase birds or squirrels very few dogs can actually catch food. Cats live alone also where as dogs are supposed to be in big groups so they can hunt down animals to eat so a lone dog wouldn't really catch food.
😅😅😅😅😅
On the beginning of pandemic me and my partner moved out to countryside. And there was a feral cat, hunting rats, mouses etc. We started to feed him and slowly build trust. I took him over a year to allow us to stroke him. 3 years later he will still go to hunt, but. He wants to be cuddle so much by us. He feels 100% safe with us. His first humans :)
Stroke?? Pause bro
Our two newest kittens, as soon as my wife opened the carrier to let them out in the kitchen, immediately found me in my room and climbed onto my shoulder. Every other cat we've ever had wanted to explore first. The one who found me first spends hours curled up on my left arm, so I'm getting exercise without trying. I'll be watching YT, and out of nowhere, I find a kitten has leaped onto my chest, and is sitting there staring me in the face. He so clearly decided I belong to him it sometimes makes me feel like crying...and before we brought them home, he ran away from me when I tried to hold him. He was the runt of the litter, and more than ten months old, his tail is still short and stiff, unlike his brother...but both have virtually no hair on their ears.
@@WestHaddnin💀
@@WestHaddninWhat do you think they meant by stroke?
@@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword it's what we British people say instead of pet. Well we do say pet but we don't pet our pets.
I have always considered that millenia ago, in some village somewhere, some lost kitten was crying mournfully, a toddler girl picked it up, it purred, and that was it, we were lost.
that's actually was very heartwarming
Should be in a movie
@Pixel the Ragdoll same …I just got a ragdoll kitten he’s the best
You're probably correct. It's just that simple. Mother cats often abandon a kitten here or there if they deem them unviable. The kitten will cry out to it's mother for days with no response until eventually it dies. Some ancient child probably adopted one of those kittens and thus domestication began.
😂
“To this day we still don’t know how we domesticated cat’s”
Caveman: Ayo, pspspspsps....
LMAO
😭
This funny
LMAO
Hahahahahhaa
“In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” - Terry Pratchett
Sure... the cats wrote about it in a big book that every cat must read before having a human master...
What an stupid quote.
@@Ulexcool Dude, it relates to cats' personality and behaviour. It's a humorous quote by one of the most intelligent British authors. Here's another one that fits you perfectly in my opinion: "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." The fact that you have taken it literally proves to me that you are not very bright.
Vladimir Stanescu burnnnn!!! Best clapback on TH-cam
@@vladimirstanescu6616 You can do all the gymnastics you want, still a dumb quote, boomer.
@@Ulexcool "It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt." Try reading a book for a change, it might help you in life, but with that attitude I doubt it.
2 ways to survive in this world.
1. Be the smartest creature
2. Be the creature that enslaves the smartest creature.
Wait... How smart is a jellyfish? They have survived far longer than humans, so....
Wellllll somehow bringing racist ideologies into a conversation about love for cats. And cats can't really be domesticated, they just coexist with people. You can't really make cats do sht 😂😂😂😂
@@OrganicAluminationhe didn’t mean race he meant domestication. But whatever fits your worldview lol
@@OrganicAluminationhow do you get racist ideology from a cat video?!? Jeez dude.
@@OrganicAlumination "...cats can't really be domesticated" - yeah, guess what: cats weren't the ones who were domesticated... ^^
Currently me, living in Cyprus, with a cat that I found on the streets and took home. I also feed 10+ cats in my neighborhood. Welcome to Cyprus :)
Sounds like a great place to live
You! Ahh I wanna go thereee 😭!
I befriended a feral cat as well and based on photo evidence we estimate she is more than 8 years old
I adopted 3 cats from the street, they are both so dumb and sweet
does it smell super bad there?
The greatest scam cats ever pulled on us was domestication and we fell for it *TWICE.*
And they're STILL not domesticated
@@Skysthelimit212
EXACTLY.
@@Skysthelimit212 But we are :)
I, for one, am very happy with this particular scam!
Alfatazer _ love the play on words from the usual suspects!!!
Cats let themselves be domesticated, they are different from dogs. the reason why a lot of people think cats are "mean" is bc cats,unlike dogs, have boundries and will only open up to you if they like you even if you take care of them really well, while dogs are friendly in general.
Cats didn’t need to be socialized, they were there for pest control for when people weren’t around, dogs were used to guard and protect humans and property. Cats don’t have the social hierarchies that dogs have and cats are mostly solitary with small or short-lived social encounters. Likewise, a cat isn’t very dangerous: hissing, clawing, biting, knocking things over, giving the death stare when you touch the tummy, etc. it’s funny or adorable for a cat but not it would not be so cute if said cat was the size of a wolf. Cats weren’t fully socialized or domesticated because they didn’t need to be to do their job, dogs had to be both for safety and because they were around people so long (and with humans coopting their pack tendencies). If cats needed to be around humans more or for a separate job, they would have been selectively bred to do so (in just 10 generations a team of Russian scientists were able to fully domesticate and socialize a species of fox just by selective breeding. Cats would have been little different).
@@gideonmele1556 You definitely need to socialise a cat and they tend to form groups. Cats are more social than people thinks.
@@gideonmele1556 modern cats actually form large colonies when their populations aren't controlled by humans, the social hierarchy is definitely different from dogs and humans but it's not inherently lesser. they are very social creatures but they depend on it less.
They have standards, I respect it.
@@elliotmydude well, my personal theory is that cats operate a lot more like early humans than dogs, forming very light hierarchies based on profesionalism rather than more rigid hierarchies. Like an "anarchist" assocation of individuals that freely associate together for mutual benefit, instead of the tight nitted heirarchy of a wolf pack.
my 2 cats were strays from the same litter, 15 happy years with them, i lost one of them a few days ago but i’m grateful for 10,000 years of domestication to have had the ability to meet her
I’m so sorry. I have a 15 year old cat and his sister died last year, it’s always so awful to lose such a precious member of a family.
Cats were domesticated by showing up. Happens to this day. Strangely enough, I met people who are even in denial about this. "It's not my cat. It's a feral cat that shows up for food and snuggles almost every day. Last winter I sheltered the cat. There is enough room in my bed so why not?" Or "I temporarily adopted the cat five years ago when the owner died. I don't even know the name. The other cats in my apartment are offspring. The babies got temporary names because I don't want a cat. Temporary is important word here. May I borrow your cat treadmill? I'm just curious if those cats like it." Or "I'm not a cat person. Mittens is not really a pet. I keep Mittens around because taking care for him is a remedy to my depression. It's very heart-warming how much Mittens loves snuggles, especially at night. It's well worth the food and vet expenses." I'm not making this up.
TIL that I have severels cats as pets lmao. I am living in a village and when the covid started I saw an adult female cat one day on the street that liked snuggling and hella fluffy. I was like "ok i like you i guess" then everyday I gave him leftovers. After a while I bought more food than needed just to give her more food. 2 and a half years passed and now I feed Flufie's grandchildren everyday. I LOVE FLUFIE and her kids and her kids kids. So yeah I DO have several cats a pets but I just found out today.
Me, feeding 5 feral cats everyday and building them a winter shelter and occasionally letting them nap in my bedroom but still trying not to get too attached: 👁👄👁
i can attest that this is 100% how i became a cat lady😂 i saw my sweet salt and pepper baby and that was all it took, “she’s not my cat i just don’t want her to be hungry or cold so i let her chill in my house when she comes” she’s been here for almost 6 years now😂😂 her names gordita now “little fatty” lol
It's like they were asking to be domesticated lol
@@eneskaraytug514 You should consider having all of your pets spayed/neutered. The cost to care them will eventually rise to unsustainable levels if they keep reproducing.
No ill intent meant as I love cats and just don't want to see abandoned ones any more.
In my eyes we feed them and in turn they let us look at them
synchromorph hmhmhm. Your cat uses you as a pillow when it wants to sleep, siphons your body heat and practices it’s moves on you before hitting up the lady cats
SaintSanitytrue😂
My cat doesn't just let me look at him, he also allows me to be smacked by him
My kitty, Little Princess, allows me to scratch her and blesses me with purs in return. (seriously, tho one time she stood between me and a random dog that appeared and hissed at him in what looked like an attempt to protect me. The doggo was shy and actually got scared by her, poor thing. But whenever anyone says cats don't love their humans I remember her trying to protect me from a big scary dog! lol)
Statement holds true for celebrities and athletes as well.
10,000 years ago: Cats took over an island of humans
3,000 years ago: Cats took over human civilization
10 years ago: Cats took over the internet
Its gonna be the entire galaxy in the near future😄
Lol
They rule the world lol
Man, cats were on the internet the same time as the three little pigs mr greenjelly...lol
@@estoesmeena and won’t that be great
When talking about domestication of cats (or dogs), people always forget the companionship/affection factor. Most people know what its like to feel hungry. They see a skinny stray one day and their empathy kicks in, they throw it some scraps. Cat learns to come around for food, familiarity breeds some mild affection... then one day mr ancient man is having a bad day sitting there feeling down, maybe got in a fight with the cavewoman bc he didnt throw the elk carcass away after dinner which turned into an argument about how he never takes out the carcasses AND leaves his bloody spears everywhere, doesnt even wipe them down...
So hes sitting there feeling down, and this cute fluffy thing rubs against his legs and meows, and for the first time, instead of just throwing it food, he reaches down and touches it... it likes being pet, he feels his mood lift a little, and a friendship is born :)
Lovely 👍🏻
its pretty rude to make ur cavewoman take out the carcasses and wipe down the spears all the time... smh
@@do.re.mi.2713 Shut up, I hired her to do exactly that....wipe my spear!
@@do.re.mi.2713 typical hunters, never think of us who clean the cave all day
dogs are trash bro. they even kill humans. stop with the dog nutterism.
Kitties domesticated themselves. They saw a large warm cave with lots of food and a creature that would help it take care of it's babies, and was like "I'm moving in, and I'll tolerate you, I guess" and humans were like "you're fluffy and cute, okay!"
more like im meowing in
no
Nope, that's not the way feline domestication went down. Agricultural production of grain attracts rodents which in turn attract cats. The predatory instincts of cats proved useful to humans in controlling rodent populations, and humans engaged in activities that lured in easy prey for the cats, so humans and cats developed a symbiotic relationship through a chain reaction that started with the agricultural revolution.
@@willdwyer6782 no, cat wanted warm home, human said "cute!" and let it. That's what happened.
@@saschalevi6486 yeah keep telling yourself that.
every time i look at my tiny sweet friend, it is so incredible realizing that i am living with a miniature lion with so many habbits, insticts and behaviours still in common.
Tigers, actually. Lions aren't solitary. House cats are more similar to tigers. Tigers are bigger and badder than lions anyway
Yeesh. No and no. There are two branches of cats surviving (third was Smilodon). The first has the lions, tigers, leopards. The second has the wild cats, puma, serval. Domesticated cats are from the second branch. So your pet may be like a puma, but never like a lion or tiger. Lions don't even purr.
"Cats are the God's gift for humans to feel how is petting a Lion"
I am sure I destroy that quote and I can't remember who said it
@@KorithStoneheart both can be badder,lion and tigers have their own behaviour but since lions are smart enough to form a group they dont need to be aggressive all the time. BESIDES yes cats are somehow 40% tiger
"My tiny sweet friend" adding that to my encyclopedia of affectionate terms for my fur gremlins
Cat: mew
Humans: so anyway I adopted it.
i stole this, just want to clarify before i get hit with the "stolen" but i just want to share the fact that the first cat that was named in egypt was named "mau"
the first person who met the cat probably went
human: hey there buddy, whats your name?
kitten: mau
human: ok your name is mau
cats: mew
human Neanderthal child: daddy can we keep it PLEASE? I promise to take care of it.
Neanderthal dad: ugh
Neanderthal dad and the cat two months later: homies.
Cats started meowing to make us pay attention to them by mimicking a baby's cry
Scram
In our folktales, cats are believed to be the tiger's aunt (father's sister), she was asked to fetch fire from the humans. But when she reaches the human house, she tasted burnt rice (that sticks to the bottom of a pan) and sweet potato baked in ash ( under the fire). She wanted more and more of it and never went back to the forest. And hence settled with humans.
@scarletgoat173 India ( folktale is from a small tribe called Adi in Arunachal Pradesh of India)
Our grandma used to told us that cat are the oldest ancestors of lions and tigers. 😂
As someone who’s seen the cat distribution system in action, this story tracks 😭. Cats love human food, just because it’s ours! My cat will even eat sweet stuff if she can, and cats can’t even taste sugar. She just wants it cause it’s human food.
Bruh
Umm . . . My cats domesticated me. I no longer run wild, sleeping and eating wherever.
It seems the same time I got my first cat I began cooking my own meals and sleeping in my own bed more often. What was once a cute animal to watch became a companion. I even started talking to an animal, looking for answers in a cat's eyes. Somehow I decided to bring more cats in, even though it seemed illogical to have more litter boxes that I had to clean more often, along with buying more cat food. Now if I have to sleep away from home my first order of business is "find someone to care for my cats".
Oh god, tell me about it. there's this stray calico cat that stays outside my house all the time, we first started to feed her scraps, she was nice and very friendly, she's been fed by other residents but mostly stays in outside our home since almost all of our neighbors have dogs, except for us and there was just something about her that i was like, give me cat food, and so I did.
Now I have a strict feeding schedule, and she'll meow until she has her food, and she isn't even my cat.
That is so precious a a a a a a ❤❤❤
Yeah... I adopted a blind kitten years ago to keep company to my dog while I was at work. Now I'm owned by 5 cats and 3 dogs, and I couldn't wish for a better family
Watch this movie called a cat named bob it’s about how this guys cat eventually helped him overcome addiction
that’s beautiful, now that i think about it, cats really do force us to take better care of ourselves so we can of them.
But did we actually domesticate them? Seems more like a mutual agreement to me.
Regulus Mine they more or less domesticated themselves
Yup, it is a Quid Pro Quo. And no Russians were involved. The dog made that up to blame the cats.
@@themanicman8458 Incidentally, the exact same can be said about humans. These close relations of the Chimpanzee actually domesticated themselves. I seem to recall hearing once that domestication tends to cause certain phenotypical markers, and it seems humans also have some of those - now if I could just remember the details ...
Domesticated doesn't necessarily mean dominated into submission as in the example given in the video, which I'm suspecting you didn't watch completely.
I coop his poop, buy him food
I get to smush my face into his soff fur belly, hear his few cute meows when i come home
Sounds like bargain 🤔😆
"Dude these things feed us,and treat us like kings!I don't know about you,but I'm hanging with them!" -cat
@Joanne Madden Not to mention they are great companions
@TheLogicJunkie don't u have a manager to complain to Karen?
@Joanne Madden - He's talking to the OP, not to you.
@@randallflagg3700 they are talking to the Junkie, Not You! Lmfao
@@RealisticWorld Go check what the local wildlife is doing to the water and food I give my sheep. Thank you kitty.
I love that house cats are great companions who still maintain some of their wild ancestry. There are times when my cat shows his wild side, especially at dawn and dusk, and it's always so fascinating to watch.
Love the discrepancy between how cats and dogs came to be.
Humans saw wolves and meticulously sculpted them in hundreds of ways to fit dozens of niches for all the different jobs they wanted them to do.
But humans saw cats and were like "you're absolutely perfect as is, keep it up and hang around" and they only really got smaller as their prey was in cramped barns corners and storehouses more and open fields less.
Cat people are too much. Some of these comments are so over the top 😂
@@isitoveryet9525 You don't have the parasite it seems
I think it's more like,
Wolves raised by humans were chill with being bred for different jobs. And cats refused.
Edit the First: Turns out, that's wrong. Humans bred caution out of cats. That's why you can't let your pet cat wander outside, because they're too dumb to know when to run away. Unless you _want_ them to die, of course.
Edit the Second: but I didn't do research, so take that with a grain of salt, maybe.
Ya no, people definitely didn’t say “cats are perfect”
this comment is so underrated!! it surprises me when i think dogs were actually wolves, actual wild animals.
Meanwhile in the Cat Universe: ‘How we enslaved humans’
I imagine there's a cat TH-cam and I'm dying lol
People are slaves to dogs and cats because they evolved to look cute 🤦♂️
@@NickNakelski and fish they’re so cute too
Kayano you know it's TRUE
There’s no separate cat universe, this is the cat universe
0:40 Too cute the cat died and they sacrificed his human to keep him company in the afterlife
Lmaoo this 🙌
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😄
That’s what I was thinking!! 🤣🤣
He said, not without my kitty 😭😭
i just adopted two amazing kittens, i have a boy and a girl, and they’re siblings. they’re the most entertaining, obnoxious, fearless, and loving creatures alive. i cannot help but be fascinated by them, they’re truly individuals.
A stray cat adopted me yesterday so I'm gonna do some research now
I hope you and your new companion are getting on well. It will take time but if you're patient a bond will form.
@@mikoto7693 yes I named her brisket😭❤
Are you and Brisket doing fine?
How is he now
@@shreyosibanerjee4906 awww💖✨🥺
PBS Eons Man: "and one cat skelleton even showed healed fractures"
me: *tears*
Saaaammmeee
Humans will pack bond with and take care of anything 😭😭
@@KanadianKaiser tell that to my ex boyfriends uwu gg big sad 😭😭😭😭
@@KanadianKaiser well we are social creatures! so yeah we will pretty much try to pack bond with anything. it's one thing that's just so pure about humanity
@@jabby6709 its amazing to be a species that loves to pet animals in a world full of animals that love to be pet
I love that in an older video he made a point to say “I’m not 100% a cat person” and made a face. But now he has one. Character development.
You're really cute
@@shoaibakther1453 he’s one of us now. Its much happier here
You dont have to be a complete cat person to like them.
Proof that cat's world domination plans are coming along nicely
@@shoaibakther1453 simp
We had an apartment complex cat. She just showed up. Everyone petted her and fed her.
I could well imagine a cat lecturing on how humans were domesticated.
You know I don't think the cats would consider us domesticated to them I think they would consider us enslaved. So it cat folklore probably tell stories about how they Enslaved the human species and conquered the Earth😂 because you know that your cat thanks your bed is there bed and your house is their house right? So in a cat's mind they all live in big warm comfy mansions and don't even have to work earn their keep😂
@@MollyKuehl4790
Or they might just think of humans as equals.
Refusing to obey is, after all, not the same as ordering others around.
@@RubberyCat but we do comply with what are cats want if our cat wants out we let them out if they want food we feed them if they want to cuddle we hold them we do whatever they want
@@MollyKuehl4790
As said, humans domesticated themselves, and the cats may think this is standard routine for that human ... which they really don't mind or perhaps even encourages.
^_^
China: Are you sure about that
Cats are one of the few animals who domesticated themselves.
Kinda. Many of them still can survive on their own. That's what I find fascinating about them. They're still natural with the exemption of some breeds (like this cruel short foots).
@Idotic Moron no, they wouldn't.
Dogs did too
@@siyacer Not really. Humans selectively bred dogs for a millennia in order to make them express physical and personality traits that were desirable to humans. They were forcibly domesticated. lol
@@Kitolabhradha4971 Wolves came up to humans, humans just tolerated the friendlier ones.
Honestly, having lived with cats all my life, I don't believe they were ever domesticated, rather, we just locked them inside and gave them food so they figured "Sure, this is acceptable" 😆
Tell that to my cat. That dude hates the outside with a passion. He throw a fit every time we try to bring him outside, and would zoom into the house the moment I put him on the grass.
@@ongkhuongduy3498 same with my persian mix. 🤣 meanwhile our domestic shorthair zooms out any chance she gets
Very True.
I grew up with cats everywhere also, and our cats where badasses and extremely independent, They lived inside and outside the house and usually brought us some small animals mice or little birds and made them watch as they tortured them...
@@OudPlayerHBY So they did the job they were hired for? Cats were kept around to keep the vermin down and on farms in my area they are still kept in large populations to do exactly that. These aren't there to pet them but to work. We feed them so they got the energy for it and they keep hunting even when not hungry. They are more independant because that's what we wanted of them... Why are so many people here thinking we tried to make a dog 2.0 with cats even the the video itself explains it.
@@ongkhuongduy3498 Damn bro, your cat is a league of legends player?
I work at catcafe, and I can confirm all cats have a personality of their own. Cats never changed!
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” - Hitchens
wmarclocher hahahahaaaa. We should be honored to be able to grace the presence of our fluffers😂
Yea dogs be that dumb.
🤣🤣
wmarclocher That wasn’t Hitchens. He was paraphrasing someone else.
Aksam Rafiz I call it loyalty although when a creature has enough intelligence it will realize that it is being praised
We’ve never domesticated cats, they hired us as unpaid valets.
NHMO OYTIS so slaves we are slaves
Food provider
Purrs are a valid form of payment
Blake McCrary true as are snuggles :D
NHMO OYTIS bold of you to assume I’m a cat person
i just love the concept that humans have always just been looking at these little dudes and going "yeah i think i want one" and cats are like "if you feed me i will tolerate you"
i love cats so much T_T
@TECH-SPIDER 1 aw hey bud, its okay for people to have different opinions. if someone does not like cats, it's fair and okay, even if we love cats. =]
actually cats view us as really weird big fellow cats!
@@cray2362 not really, they know we're different. But a cat that's well taken care of will see us as part of it's clowder.
@@pelipoika88
I like to think that they see us as their clowder's servants. 😂😂
@@tootsie3612 propably more accurate. But mine at least does care about me.
I've watched lots of these videos and I think this is the first time the presenter seemed to have an actual personal connection to the topic.
I'm not much a pet guy myself but I still appreciated the little eye rolls and inflections that made it clear you had a pet cat and you cared about it, despite the litter box changing and the laundry peeing.
So this guy was buried wearing beige Chinos and a sweater?
Ahead of his time
That dude obviously wanted to be comfortable when he died
Thats what i thought as soon as i seen it😂
All male single beige chinos and a good sweater wearing adults want to be buried with their cat that way.
I know right? It's so last millenium
I always cry about cats and dogs found buried with their people because archeologically, it tells us how loved and valued they were, but it makes me sad to think about the animal being killed just because its owner died.
Me too.
I think the same thing too, but I imagine they thought they'd both be happier together in the afterlife.... Or maybe they didn't care about the cat at all, and I'm just making excuses for them.
in some cultures they did the same with wifes and slaves... ancient people were odd
@@Luthiart they did care about the cat, you just gotta realize the difference in culture. to them the idea wasnt "we all meet up happily in heaven eventually :)" because those religions hadnt even been conceived of yet, if you wanted to live forever after with little mittens then mittens had to be buried in the same hole as you. That was just how they thought it worked, and honestly we'll never know who is truly right.
@@JubioHDX Just don't go into the light ...
I love the term "ancient kitties."
Well with Veterinary Care improving catvalesence is a growing issue !
I LITERALLY CANT STOP SAYING IT TO MY CATS AFTER I HEARD IT.
"Ya hear that... you ah ancient kitty"
Ya hear about those ancient kitties
I love the phrase novelty size
@@RoyalRoses 3
I am part Cypriot and a cat lover
oh what a piece of wisdom it is to know that people this long ago loved their cats and all their little shenanigans so much that they got buried together
Until you find out that the cats were quietly murdered shortly after the humans death and buried alongside them
@@harrisonwilkes8914 Yeah, that ruins the sweet sentimentality of it. Human belief systems have always been dumb and detrimental to the local wildlife.
Yes Marie. This got me too.
@@harrisonwilkes8914 yeah it's not even necessarily love! More like 'that cat is a possession of mine and so it goes with me'.
@@harrisonwilkes8914 well way to ruin the party bud😂😂💀
0:19
told my cat "look! its you!" and she meowed. what a civilized conversation
is your cat named Tomar?
Tomar
Tomar!
@@Rain-mw9du tf
T o m a r
I’d say they’ve successfully domesticated us. They don’t hunt anymore, just demand food and pets. They’ve got us wrapped around their furry cute paws.
WGC300 hey my cat has many jobs! Such as bathroom attendant, leg warmer, and apartment supervisor 😂
WGC300 @lexi same my cat guards me when i workout. Guards outside my room when im sleeping. and does his daily patrols around the property keeping it free of rats. Hes worth more than his weight in gold to me so id say nobody domesticated nobody. Were equals. Were family
OGkush69 yep it’s a symbiotic relationship for sure. We cuddle together for warmth all winter ♥️
stop
My calico even demands me to go to bed at night too. I'm totally fine with this though.
My cat is chewing on my phone screen while watching this. I’m now hidden under my blankets as she continuously pounces on my face
You don't choose a cat. The cat chooses you.
Sophie adopted me one night while I was out walking. She'd been abused and abandoned by pervious owners and I'd recently lost my boy Mittens. She somehow knew that we needed each other.
Starting year 3 this year. She goes with me on walks to protect me and guards me while I do yardwork. She's even chased away snakes, dogs, and alerted me to potential fires in the house. If something is burning she'll go nuts and ram into my leg.
I am honored.
Cat people
Rip ma boy mittens
Well, dogs around your place don't seem very threatening, anyway...
EDIT : However, snakes...where do you live, in Australia ?
@@798jeremy Texas actually. Thankfully the most common snakes at my home are garter snakes and rat snakes, but there have been reports of coral snakes in neighboring areas.
@@StationroadRatrods the hell is that supossed to mean?
The kitty died so his slave was buried with him, so that his slave could clean his litterbox and feed him, and tend to the kitty in the afterlife.
Cute
Lol so true hehahe.☺️👌 I will do that for my cat do anything for my pets even my dogs ong .protect them clean them feed them hahehe.🤣💦
I plan to be buried with my cat when he dies
Did they kill the man or waited until he died?
I think he was mexicam
TH-cam: you wanna see how cats were domesticated?
Me: yeah sure
TH-cam recommendations is the new clickbait
TheCONZ I am felt the same
Lol same
I just watched a DnD vodcast, and this was the follow-up
Your welcome, I’m the 690th like
Thanks for this video. I’m making a google slide presentation about cats and their significance throughout history and how we got modern house cats etc. this was really helpful.
I'm only 20 seconds into the video but I'm already persuaded to book a trip to Cyprus so I can pet all the cats
Same
They're a real problem. They bring in vets from outside the island to work in spey/neuter and release programs. Still cute, but there's a hell of a lot of grumpy feral cats kicking about.
Seriously not a good idea. That's a pretty good way to get rabies.
You'd probably be sad once you see so many hungry and sick cats. Ferals, especially in that number, don't have the lives cats deserve.
Don't,those cat is the one who create the damn virus
I think cats would disagree and claim that they domesticated humans.
You are correct
@L1 in return for the elimination of pests, which destroy human's livelihoods.
Meow
damn right cats aint that stupid to admit human's credit
I hate the cats that always c one to my house I hit them with long stick
"A mongoose is kept for catching mice, a cat is kept for being a cat" - Sumerian Proverb
and there is, in my opinion, no greater raison d'etre
I'd love to know the age and precise source of that proverb, if you are able to provide it. Thanks!
Nikolay Ivankov thanks, that’s incredible. cats must have always been that cute and cuddly.
too bad there isn’t such a thing as time travel just to observe. no interaction t’all. i really wonder what we’d find out. so fascinating . :) 🐈🐾 🐕 🌻
Our cats have always preferred catching, and eating rodents outside. The ones they bring into the house they consider toys rather than food. We had a cat that carried a large (bigger than the cat) very much alive jackrabbit into our second floor bedroom in the middle of the night . The cat let it go, and the cat and jackrabbit went running all around the bedroom. The sliding door to a second story balcony right outside the bedroom was open. The jackrabbit ran out and jumped off the balcony to the ground below. The cat followed and did the same.
@@acninee
From a tablet inscription, ~2600 B.C., kept in the Hilprecht Collection in Jena, Germany; as translated by Edmund Gordon outlined in the book 'The Sumerians: Their History, Their Culture, and Character' by Samual Noah Kramer, 2010, page 226.
A cat - for its thoughts!
A mongoose - for its deeds!
I once had the amazing opportunity to tour parts of Italy, Greece, and Turkey. The part I loved the most was all the cats there were, some of them were very friendly.
I'm a simple man. I see cats, I press like.
Everyone in this comment section is so toxic 🤢🤮 and men that love cats are the best 💛
Y’all need to chill out and leave him alone.
Lucy & Cinty no they dident😚😍
careful guys hes edgy
Aah, I see you're a man of culture is well......
So do I.....
"How did humans help cats take over Cyprus...and eventually the world?"
*_And the Internet?_*
Chromiako Cosmos I shoot cats
The fact that cats conquered the internet is even more amazing when you take into account their lack of basic IT skills.
No
toxoplasmosis, that's how
Chromiako Cosmos oh there’s no question cats own the internet
I don't get it. We domesticated them twice, and they're still not domesticated.
It doesn't take long for a house cat to become feral when left in the wild.
Jerry Bean my babies would be terrified.
@@michaellind1281 Even if they became feral they will still live near human presence and often fed by us, they don't live in the wilderness.
That's what they want you to think, it's all a conspiracy, trust no one, the cats are watching
@@norXmal well of course why hunt and waste energy when you can get free food
I imagine the "domestication" of cats more or less boils down to them being rewarded when hunting rats and other rodents near farms and food storages and sort of just agreed to hang around humans.
To early cats it probably felt like an absolute win, they get a hunting ground, a steady supply of food when needed and a safe place to sleep.
"their estimate population is 600.000.000"
me: damn thats a lot of cats
my cat sitting in my lap: sure is
i love this comment so much i am unable to put my finger on why
xamus Maybe because it sounds like it would happen in a cartoon? :)
They're going to enslave us
Catpocalypse is coming
The human estimate pop is 7,753,342,002
it's probably the closest you can get to ethical domesticating of animals, they aren't in a cage or locked indoors, they can leave if they want, however they just happen to love to keep coming back
Most animal loves freedom to explore and be free, what makes them keep returning to human because they need foods when they cant find in the wilds.
@@WiliantoMulti My cat Sirius when I lived in a forest sure could hunt! He went and came as he wished and constantly brought snakes, mice and birds, even when we moved to an apartment (a high floor) in the city he still caught a bird from a window! He always came back at night though, and he was best buddies with our golden retriever. Rest in peace, Sirius :(
@@WiliantoMulti When it comes to food Cats are mutual contributors. Cats will come back from their hunts with offerings of food to their humans which shows that they care deeply about our wellbeing.
Wil Rogers cats kill birds and mammals for fun regularly. I worked on a farm and when the last cat died the mammal and bird populations exploded. Cats kill these other animals for fun daily
Cats should not be allowed loose on the area. They put more species into extinction than any other animal, including humans
Just an FYI, when a cat starts to urinate in unusual places, the first thing that has to be done is a trip to the vet. This is frequently a warning sign of a UTI, bladder crystals, or another medical problem. If the vet finds nothing wrong, then it's time to see if there's something new in the environment that's upsetting the cat or triggering 'marking' instinct. Only after these things have been cleared should behavior be addressed.
With “behavior problems”, the first step should always be the vet. I’ve never had a cat with real behavior problems, it always turned out to be a medical problem.
Our first cat was rescued from an animal hoarder. She kept urinating on towels because that's all she had there. She was already very old and the behavior issue was nearly impossible to get rid off at that point.😔
Other than that she was the sweetest lady. As a kid it was extremely hard for me to fall asleep until we got her. She would always curl up around the top of my head and purr really loudly which worked like a charm in making me calm enough to sleep.
From my experience that's just how they initiate the breeding process, they mark the territory to atract females
There was a cat in ancient Rome who got an entire tomb with his name engraved on it, so we know Romans viewed cats as pets and many felt affection towards them 🥲(they were popular pets for farmers and children I think)
I told my cat that we had domesticated her kind twice.😻
She threw up on the carpet.🐈
OMG!😹😹😻
lol - Yep your cat now.
Twice!
LMAOO
She's like "clean that up"
Ancient Person: hey you want to come live with me
Ancient cat: yeah I guess
Ancient human: Hey! You want to come live with me?
Ancient cat: That seems unfair. What will you do for me in return?
Ancient human: Um... Everything?
Ancient cat: Well... I was hoping for more, but I guess I'll settle for that.
Generał WP nobody:
General WP: nobody:
Meeea: ‘ancient person: hey you want to come live with me
Ancient cat: yeah I guess
Don't you mean ancient kitties
Ancient cat: "only if you share your food with me"
Also cat: if you feed me, clean my liter box AND let me sleep most of the day.
Me: *feeds cats, grooms cats, cleans up after cats.
Cats: “After 10,000 years they still think they domesticated us.”
But they depend on us for food and protection
@@evilpimp2475 They are still independent though.
@@evilpimp2475 if they really depended on us strays would not be nearly as prevelant as they are.
@@evilpimp2475 cats don't need us, they can find everything they want without us, you can even test this, just stop feeding your cat, he won't starve but he might just leave you.
Cats "I dont know how the human want to serve us"
I miss my friend Smokey so much! She was 22
I always feel like all cats remember when we the Egyptians used to honor them as Gods...
.....
.....
..and they never let the rest of us forget.
Lmao
So you’re Saying Asians Eat Gods
There’s Always a Bigger Fish
@@gloriaportillo7216 hey don't include all asians...Chinese mostly eat cats and dogs, they even have a festival for that...
@@jon-unicorn-doxxer No difference in eating any other animal.
@@foreverskrillex
Exactly, go vegan.
This is why I’ve always loved cats. They’re still always semi-wild. You have to earn their affection and loyalty over time. I love dogs too, but it’s in their genetic programming to automatically follow and obey their perceived alpha due to being pack animals. As long as you show authority, a dog will usually automatically love and respect you. I love how independent cats are, yet they can be so loyal and loving if you gain their trust.
Exactly!!
No, completely wrong. Dogs form familiar bonds, just like humans. They are not pack animals, not even wolves. The alpha crap was debunked by the same person that started it, since further data proved the contrary.
@@biohita dogs and wolves are pack animals go look it up wtf
@Ami Oropeza being social animals doesn't make you pack animals. You people are really confused.
@@richardknight4615 they are not, there is no study that points to it.
Cats domesticated themselves, that's why they're so ornery.
@Finn MickCool thank you, sometimes I'm too dyslexic for my autocorrect.
Cats domesticated humans. They saw these big lumbering furless apes who built warm shelters and attracted rodents and saw an opportunity.
@Darius Kang - I see you're not buying the Spontaneous Generation of Cat Ladies theory.
@Darius Kang Cats are the real winners of domestication. They get free protection from predators/the environment, an abundant supply of well fed rodents, AND free human-caught food on top of that. Also headpats and stuff if they're into that.
Cats are pretty well known to thrive in most ecosystems they find themselves in. They explore and adapt and they're proven to intentionally vary their diet and try new things to see if it's better. Even domesticated cats do very well for themselves without human intervention. There is also evidence that suggests that humans bred dogs to catch vermin, not cats. Dog breeds built for that purpose are actually far more effective than their feline counterparts. The most recent research that I've seen supports that cats just moved themselves into the human ecosystem and changed their behavior to get what they wanted from us. If they were anything like my boys, it was probably all about the cuddles.
0:45 WAIT... they didn't... *kill* the kitty to bury with him...?
I had a cat who was totally devoted to me and protective. I had her since a kitten. We loved each other. The thing I don't understand is that she didn't have the traits I hear so often spoken of about cats, like ignoring and not listening, being hyper-independent. Can't figure it out.
It depends on the way people raise them. If they’re raised to be independent, they will be, however, if you raise them with tons of affection and love, they’re as loyal (or even more loyal) as dogs
@@Megsterkitty To a point. They have their own personalities as well.
All cats are different. One of my cats is pretty independent and just sleeps the whole day, but the other is very needy and sits in my lap all the time.
Cats have varying personalities like people. My one cat is very shy and likes to sit on my lab and hang out with me, while my other cat is more independent and pretends that her sitting between me and my laptop is a coincidence
Some are very social, mine is.
I never appreciated the fact that "Sylvester the Cat" was (presumably) a play on words on the Latin name of the Wildcat.
That moment you realize it's taken you 20+ years to get a rather obvious play on words joke. Oh god...
Mind = blown
@@amandahuginkiss4098 Sylvester I knew about, but Tom and Jerry's a new one on me. I thought Tom was just Tom cause tomcat.
So was Felix.
SUFFERIN SUCCATASH! IT's!!......KITTEHS!!
Felis Selvistris Lybica: An animal that still have wild roots and are solitary
My cat: *screams when I walk in a room without her*
Mine hunts me if I leave the room she's in 😂
@@mamacat63 adorable
I guess that's how they came up with the name for Sylvester the cat..lol
She's the boss.
I think we should never forget how many lives these beautiful creatures helped nurture by protecting our crops back in the days when a ruined crop would result in starvation
An Irish scribe wrote this poem in 600AD.
"Me and Pangur Ban my cat
‘Tis a like task we are at...
Hunting mice is his delight....Hunting words I sit all night."
Interesting
That's beatiful
Thank You for adding this fact. I read about this years ago, and it always warms my heart 🌚
Them bars are straight fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humans: Spends centuries domesticating Cats.
Cats: *ight imma head out*
@adrianna Lmao my cat went to get milk and never came back, little fatass left like 2 years ago
My best bet is that she's dead. RIP Ashely
@@GutPoacher probably alive in some other peoples house or yard or something
cats do that a cat of mine was gone for months and then found in another part of the village chillin some months later
Facts! Charleston did not want to come in the house ! I tried to get him and he was like “ Bro what’s wrong with you?! I said it’s over!...”
Imma leave it on 666 likes
😂😂
“Cats have achieved world domination.” I, for one, accept my master. His name is Pookers. He tells me what to do like letting him inside the house, then letting him out again 15 seconds later, then letting him back in about 10 seconds after that, and then back out, 10 seconds after that, until I get very tired of the whole thing and sit down and leave him meowing inside. Then later I go in to sleep and he lays next to me until morning. We have a wonderful relationship.
Have you considered fitting a cat door? Which is actually a door within a door. And it is with such a level of sophiCATion that our feline over-lords have directed human evolution.
@@mandolinic yes and it just so happens to be that the french doors I have in the yard are 10 x 10 and the auto doors are GET THIS….9 x 9 or 11x 11 I looked for like two days. Nada. Unless of course it’s custom made. Sigh. It’s ok it gives me a reason to get up. What can you do?
@@abandonedmuse Well, clearly your feline master has only your best interests at heart, and wants you to get plenty of healthy exercise.
@@mandolinic indeed!!!
@@abandonedmuse You could maybe create a frame to go around a 9x9 cat flap and then fit the flap with frame into a 10x10 space in the French door.
I enjoyed this PBS, thank you.
My family literally just sheltered our first ever kitten after years of dogs. In less than a month, the cat (Shoyo) already have more photos in our devices than any of our dogs throughout their lifetimes.
Cat’s propaganda is too strong.
*Ah yes, the cat union is propagating propaganda*
haha made me chuckle
Animal is animal
@@azenfng1341 but cats are the coolest animal :)
@@odoimia
I even have them as my profile pic
Watching this reminded me of my cat , he died a month ago. Almost cried & im a 30 yr old man! i m not even a cat person but that little bugger was special. RIP Paul
@Doctor Octagon bless you for rescuing that kitten, you my friend have a beautiful soul.
I’m sorry man your cat is in heaven watching Over you now
@@Menacetouniverse thank you
Flex Tape all cats go to heaven
When my beloved cat died back in 2003, he came back once to visit me, before moving on.
How it really was:
Human: has food and a small box
Cat: crawls in box and stays for the food
Eventually the cat just learns to tolerate you being there.
If I fits, I sits. Your box? No.... Not anymore....
Until He Becomes The Food
1337fraggzb00N lol
Cat: dis is nyaays
Wow it’s unbelievable that cats were companions so long ago. What a story that would be, the oldest humans to tame cats. It must’ve been a real deep relationship with the first few.
Should be called “how cats domesticated humans”
Ikr
You ain't seen my cats. Get them young and you can train them to be really friendly and chill.
seymourglass26
You can do that with any young animal who you orphaned from their mother 🤷🏻♀️
we became their servants hahaha
ctually true all cat lovers infected with harmless worms that release pleasure chemicals into our blood when we hear a cat purr fact
“Ancient kitties” That is all. It made me giggle.
"For thousands of years, cats stayed near human dwellings for food but weren't necessarily close with people themselves."
"Humans actively enticed cats to stay in their settlements."
*My cat is laughing hysterically*
Rudyard Kipling nailed it, with his story of how the cat adopted people, "The Cat Who Walked By Himself " from the Just So stories. Anyone born in the 60s likely knows this story off by heart.
"The cats have achieved world domination."
Ah.
And they just tolerate us as their servants to get their shopping
Lolol
Quite an enthusiastic "ah" there, fella.
Cats:
600 000 000
People:
7 400 000 000
AHEM...
They have been in control for millennia! th-cam.com/video/EmJhv6W_URY/w-d-xo.html
Dogs have Masters Cats have Slaves.
*"Cats were worshipped as Gods in ancient times, they have never forget this."*
*~ Sir Terry Pratchett.*
paulo Almeida what its not true but I agree with “cat love your owner”
Zoroastrians (ancient Persia) revered dogs in much the same way ancient Egyptians revered cats. 🤷♂️ It is actually in their scripture.
I've read speculation that the Islamic abhorrence for dogs comes from the fact that Zoroastrians revered them. Possible, I guess.
Something only a cat lover would say lol. There aren't many masters who take their slaves for a walk and pick up their crap for them.
GNU PTerry
I always try to imagine the first human to ever see a kitten... awwwww
He prob died right away
The kitten probably was murdered for food
the first human to see a kitten probably knew it was easy food, so killed it and ate it, just saying
it ate the kitten and died
*NOM*
I've just come back from a trip in Cyprus a few weeks ago and I can say that cats definitely took over
So domesticated cats are basically as old as human agriculture, 10K years.
Makes sense. Grain = rat problems.
Correlation is not Causation.
@@GrzegorzDurda Correlation is often a good indication of possible causation, and an indicator of viable placeholder theories, where evidence is lacking.
Is that the same as dogs?
@@GrzegorzDurda, in this case, it is, when we discovered agriculture and started using it, rats became a problem, cats followed the rats to eat them, then we domesticated those cute furballs.
Generally, those who dislike cats have never had them as pets.
I dislike the stench of a household with feline pets, I also dislike the entitlement of cat owners that think they should be allowed to let their cat roam outside.
Camper if the animal still wants to be free then it should be allowed. Having it stuck inside forever would be a horrible life to live for any animal.
Charlie cats allowed outside are more dangerous to the ecosystem than humans are. They regularly put small animals into extinction.
Trenton Palmer Here’s the problem with that argument, these cats aren’t part of the local ecosystem. If we didn’t bring cats to us, they wouldn’t be here. So it’s completely unnatural for cats to be there. For example, if you bring a pike to a small pond, it will eat most of the fish, and many of the species in that pond will be eliminated. So bad for the ecosystem. But that’s not natural, because it shouldn’t be here in the first place. And yeah things die, but it’s to feed other animals and feed back into the ecosystem. When animals are eaten by cats that already get enough food to survive, nothing gains from it (unless you count satisfying a cats pallet). So no, it’s not just part of natural life. It’s harming the environment.
I grew up with a cat, which I liked. But in general, I really dislike cats.
There was a monastery in Cyprus famous for caring for many cats! They had a legend about a saint bringing kittens to help protect them from snakes
Yes. It was Saint Helena that brought the cats to Cyprus. So, Saint Helena set sail to the holy places to find the holy cross. She did, however upon returning back to Constantinople, she shipwrecked in another region of the empire, Cyprus. She slept there and the next day she couldn’t find the two pieces of cross that she had brought with her. However, there was a bright light upon a mountain top, where the pieces were found. There, she founded two monasteries (which still exist today). The island was however plagued by terrible drought, overrun by snakes and rats. So, she came back to Cyprus and brought with her many many cats, to get rid of the snakes and rats. And this is how cats saved Cyprus.
@@olbiomoiros there is a wonderful scene set in a Cyprian religious house in the 1400s showing all the cats coming in at night, much treasured by the priests, in Dunnett's novel "Race of Scorpions"
@@judithbradford9130 Judy. It’s Cypriot not cyprian lol or rather Cypriot is what I call my dad because that’s where he’s from lol
@@olbiomoiros the cats arrived 11000 years ago.... 🤭
@@Elenrai Yes thee first wave came 9000 BC years ago, but a second wave came in 300 AD with Empress Saint Helena, who brought dozens of thousand of cats more in Cyprus with several ships from Egypt and Lebanon. Those cats arrived to stop the snake infestation that the hundreds of thousands local cats couldn't so she brought another 30000 cats. Today those cats made the race of Saint Helena Cat and the Saint Nicholas Cat, while the initial Cypriot cats make the Cypriot Giant Aphrodite Cat. A fourth race showed up from the intermixing in the 20th century AD. Those cats are called the Local Cypriot Cats.
So Cyprus has 4 Cypriot cat Races:
1) Local Cypriot Cats
2) Aphrodite's Giant Cat
3) Saint Helena Cat
4) Saint Nicholas Cat
The 4 races of cat Races in Cyprus are big in size and with short hair. Geneticists, Breeders and Veterinarians want to create a 5th race with high standards until 2050. They will take selective ancestors from the 4 Cypriot races and possibly other non Cypriot cats to make it. The idea is to make a breed of cats that will have minimum health problems, being large, short haired, with great variety of colors and friendly. Cypriot cats are ideal as they have been through natural selection for 12000 years now even before they arrived to Cyprus.