• silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    As far as I understand we only domesticated cats because they took cate of mice and rats, so in a way they were also expected to work.

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      5 months ago

      Yup. They were domesticated around the time we invented agriculture and had large stores of grain that attracted rodents.