Lydia (Greater London, UK) has just been popping her little head through the door to check in on things throughout the day. Clearly she feels that her human needs a bit of supervising.
Please greet Tobias Ace as he completes week 3 in his forever home. Although he has anointed himself King, he has decided that bowing and curtsying are only occasionally necessary. #cats#catsofmastodon
We know the fediverse needs no excuse, but just FYI, today is International Hug Your Cat Day. Here's a @Flipboard Storyboard from Reader's Digest about where cats like kisses and get the zoomies, how to train them, and more.
Apparently cats have been our overlords longer than we thought.
Were Egyptians Really the First to Domesticate Cats? Try Cave Men - A map shows the spread of felines by Egyptians, Romans, Vikings—and prehistoric ancestors. by Frank Jacobs, Big Think May 24, 2024
"...major advances in paleogenetic analysis have helped illuminate the deep past of one of mankind’s favorite pets. In the last 2 decades, it has been established that the Near Eastern wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica) is the common ancestor of all domesticated cats, and that they were first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago.
It also could be said that cats domesticated themselves; they were attracted to the rodents that feasted off the harvests of the earliest farmers. They chose us, not the other way around. In turn, those early farmers appreciated this welcome form of pest control. ...They arrived as a “ready-made” symbiotic species, so to speak..."
Miss Cinnamon is curled up in Tom’s recliner, snoring is a ladylike manner, while he is relegated to the ordinary armchair. He would never move her #cats
@purplepadma in my immediate post-student days when I had a tiny living room and no dining table, my friend was shocked when I sat on the floor to eat my dinner rather than move a cat. It was such a regular occurrence for me that I hadn't even noticed I'd done it 😆
