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valerief

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32. Thanks. I don't click on links until first doing a google search and having Norton

Wed Mar 19, 2014, 10:53 AM

Mar 2014

tell me the link is okay. It couldn't find that link, so I didn't click it.

Anyway, I was talking about wild cats and wolves before they bonded with man. The wolves were already socialized. The cats were basically solitary. The canine-human bonding came thousands of years before the feline-human bonding (even if feline domestication came almost 10,000 years ago). Once both became domesticated, the socialization with their own species and with man became something different. Domestic cats are far more social than wild ones.

BTW, I love cats and dogs and have no preference. Er, the domesticate ones. I'm very happy to steer clear of the wild ones!

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