Boo's "Afraid Of Being Alone Forever?"

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Catfight!

hehe I thought that you need two women or two cats for a catfight...oh wait you are TrollCATman
But I warn you viking cats are fierce

I saw this one on the Paradox forums, it's a Swedish gaming company, they make strategy games like Crusader Kings 2 which also has vikings. Playing vikings in that game is awesome because raiding actually makes a lot of money.

Norwegian forest cats are impressive, they sure do look like viking cats
One morning I saw a big one sitting on a huge stone in the back of the garden and it took me a while untill I realized I was looking at a cat. I thought what is that big animal...? They are beautiful.

One day I hope I will see a Lynx...they are supposed to be in the area, but only a few...maybe there are none left...

^ Most housecat breeds in the world are descents from the African wildcat species (also exist in Arabia), firstly domesticated in the Middle-East; that's why house cats can tolerate high heat, often hate bathing, and their urine is concentrated and their feces are dry. It's an adaptation to desert and hot environments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wildcat

The Turkish Angora is one of the few breeds who love water, it's actually a natural breed not related to the desert species.

That is very interesting Boo, I didn't know.
Do you have cats?

No, no cats, even tho sometimes I care of street kitten lol.

Yes, European wildcats also look slightly different, they have a much bigger tail and a bit more hair, and their footprints look slightly different.

Still cute.

I so like the idea of having a natural breed as a pet...some "raw" species, as long it's not an endangered one.


South America has interesting and beautiful wildcats.

But they are not actually domesticated are they? Cats are sort of domesticated since they have lived with humans for 10k years, but still not as domesticated as dogs.

Even the European wilcat is not domesticated and not a pet, while for example that Norwegian forest cat has been with humans for eat least 1000 years (Viking Age).

Germany also has beautiful cats. This one says "This one is my watermelon. Mine".

In fact, I found this line interesting and stating the obvious:
"We think what happened is that cats sort of domesticated themselves," said Carlos A. Driscoll, the University of Oxford graduate student who did the work, which required him, among other things, to befriend feral cats on the Mongolian steppes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02343.html


Anyone who has a cat pet realizes that , it doesn't require a research.

It may help that cats and dogs are one of the few domesticated species we don't eat.
The Washington Post may have messed up the wording, but feral cat means domesticated cats that went back into the wild, so in a way they have already been domesticated and are not wildcats. Still, it's true that cats generally choose to associate with us, they could just walk away if they didn't like their human.

There are many depictions of cats from the Middle-east, think of the sphinxes that are thousands of years old. To a people dependent on grain cats would have been of great value. Cats helped us to make bread, and more importantly, beeeeer.

Also interesting is that the Middle-east invented agriculture, but domesticating horses/goats/sheep was done elsewhere. The Mesopotamians and Egyptians lived from agriculture, but the steppe people of the Eurasian steppes lived on land not suitable for agriculture, but suitable for horses/goats, they survived by domesticating animals and eating them, and drinking their milk. The first people to be lactose tolerant are likely from southern Russia or around that region. These people spoke the Indo-European languages that spread to Europe, Iran and India, along with the domesticated animals.

Yes very afrAid I don't have much going for me and I never seem to meet anyone I have much in common with

I'll just post some more cat pictures to cheer everyone up. Star Wars time!