Say what you want to say about the importance of dogs when early people hunted the wooly mammoth for food. With out cats an agrarian society couldn’t exist. Put piles of wheat, corn together in a pile and you have a natural cafeteria for rats and mice! The only thing a cat loves more then killing mice is getting pet and sleeping!!!
Ask any farmer that you know about the importance of having cats!!
dairy farms don’t have a bunch of cats running around because there’s extra milk to get rid of
Thoughtful comment.
The agrarian progression would need the cat to keep the harvest under control, as well as the spread of disease. However, the steps leading to this level depended upon the dog, and the agrarian level also depended upon the dog for herding cattle, sheep as well as alerting the farmers to dangers threatening the herds or homestead.
Cats aren’t very good at guard duty, and are less than useless in herding animals.
“The only thing a cat loves more then killing mice is getting pet and sleeping!!!”
I’ve known more than one cat who has looked at a life mouse and then at its owner as though to say “You don’t expect ME to touch that, do you?”
Barn cats may love nothing more than killing mice-—not all house cats are the same way.
(which is why dogs are better—even a house dog has an urge to do the work for which it was bred to do).
Or they adapt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4mU59-7jE
I love both my cats and dog. They have different strengths. This ‘study’ is like saying apples are better than oranges.
Yepper, I keep horses. Ya got horses ya got
grain, ya got grain, ya got rats, ya got rats
ya got snakes or cats. Pick one.
Many of the terrier breeds live to catch vermin. I’ve had cats that lounged along side snakes in our garage. Ultimately it will depend on the animal’s ambition.
And farmers have terriers, why?
I guess you never heard of a rat terrier