The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

[denorios]

Comments

[brunettepet]

This book sounds fascinating. I was a cat person until I married somebody highly allergic to cat dander. Now I think I may have dodged a bullet by not being in their service any longer.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Wow, trippy. :)
Well, historically they did catch mice - pretty important if you store crops at home. But maybe that isn't exactly being a "service animal".

[denorios]

Apparently that's been overrated too. Cats are indiscriminate hunters and whilst they will catch mice and rats, they'll go after whatever they feel like or whatever is the easiest prey, so a mouser might hunt mice in his own backyard or he might prefer to roam after birds further afield and ignore the mice. This book talked about one study of feral cats and rats where it was more or less live and let live, because the cats had access to easier forms of prey!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Interesting. I bow to your cat expertise. :D

[angel_vixen]

I refer to the menagerie at home as the Feline Overlords, and perhaps that's just as well! :D

[denorios]

I occasionally refer to Bandit in particular as Mein Puhrer!

[1_rhiannon_1]

Not at all shocked to think that my kitties might be using mind-control!