What makes a cat a cat?
Today, for many people, a cat is not a pet with a set of instincts, but
a real character who gives us friendship.
It is a completely different level of relationship between a person and
their pet, which reveals the secrets of mutual understanding in an interesting
form, and is a real surprise for cat lovers.
Cat identity card
They had to choose the most beautiful cats - maybe they liked those with
the brightest lines on their legs, or those with lighter coats - and put them
together, to get the offspring with a new or lighter motif.
Cats lived a long time next to people, during this period they had
different color mutations, and people immediately noticed all the
characteristics and tried to fix them in the offspring.
Of course, the work of breeding cats continues to this day, people are
trying to get new colors and new patterns.
Although it was possible to change the length and color of the hair
during the reproductive process, the size and proportions of the body did not
change practically - there are of course differences between the different
breeds, but in general, modern cats do not differ much from their wild
ancestors in size - and the largest and smallest are very similar.
This may explain the fact that we did not actively participate in the
selection of our strains until recently, only a hundred years ago.
Are cats adaptive?
Usually these changes are related to the development of a particular
function - some dogs are designed to run fast, others for normal hunting and
others for wolf hunting.
Interesting information about cats
We have not tried to influence what cats do, so, we have not changed
them beyond recognition. We haven't tried much to change their behavior and
cats of different breeds are still very similar to each other concerning
instinct and ability.
The other side of dogs is the Labrador must always look for something in
the house and bring it to their owners, while the burrows always dig and throw
themselves in anything that moves. Cats around the world are similar and all
together, just like their wild ancestors.