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arrow-up165arrow-down1imageTrue story. I fucking LOVE my kittylemmy.dbzer0.comStamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months agomessage-square25linkfedilink
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou attribute to cats what humans have done to cats. It’s just that humans select the cute ones. After millennia selecting for ‘cute’, OFC they’re unreasonably cute; we selected for it over thousands and thousands of generations.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoI know this is bs because I desperately want to cuddle with a lynx and would unhesitatingly treat one how I treat my cat. Also does not explain the european wild cats
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThe cute had to come from somewhere. It doesn’t magically remove millennia of selective breeding.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoWild animals weren’t selectively bred by humans?
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoDomestic cats aren’t wild animals. By definition.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThe comment you were responding to was not about domestic cats
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoSo are you saying wild cats, that will rip your fucking face off for looking at them wrong, are identical to house cats?
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, I said they are cute
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThen you are ignoring my point. Sad.
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoThis is true of dogs. Cats haven’t really changed much through domestication, except for a few modern show breeds.
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoIt is also true of cats, regardless of what ignorant people think.
You attribute to cats what humans have done to cats. It’s just that humans select the cute ones. After millennia selecting for ‘cute’, OFC they’re unreasonably cute; we selected for it over thousands and thousands of generations.
I know this is bs because I desperately want to cuddle with a lynx and would unhesitatingly treat one how I treat my cat.
Also does not explain the european wild cats
The cute had to come from somewhere. It doesn’t magically remove millennia of selective breeding.
Wild animals weren’t selectively bred by humans?
Domestic cats aren’t wild animals. By definition.
The comment you were responding to was not about domestic cats
So are you saying wild cats, that will rip your fucking face off for looking at them wrong, are identical to house cats?
No, I said they are cute
Then you are ignoring my point. Sad.
This is true of dogs. Cats haven’t really changed much through domestication, except for a few modern show breeds.
It is also true of cats, regardless of what ignorant people think.