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[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

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