{"id":2793,"date":"2025-05-28T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:17:39","slug":"cats-are-still-wild-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Cats are still wild animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">I think we should consider selectively breeding cats the same way humans have bred dogs over thousands of years\u2014for traits like loyalty, intelligence, and responsiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most domestic cats today still retain many wild instincts, often acting independently, ignoring commands, and sometimes causing issues around the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With careful, long-term selective breeding, it might be possible to develop more companionable, trainable, and cooperative feline breeds\u2014much like we\u2019ve done with dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I&#8217;m trying to say is cats are basically wild animals that humans have invited into their homes and are pretending they\u2019re pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/image\/cats-are-wild-animals.ysCa\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/images\/2025\/05\/28\/cats-are-wild-animals.webp\" alt=\"cats are wild animals\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    Note ID:\n    <br>\n    <code id=\"nostrNote\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;\">note1kej58v44yc3cfm8d6a88dasaupygwvcdfv95rdka5evc8ckfegsqeqjy9u\n    <\/code>\n    <br>\n    <button onclick=\"copyToClipboard('nostrNote')\">Copy<\/button>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/btcpay.letsfo.com\/apps\/cyXxp1RKxQnN8bpQJjvwSEHjXbP\/pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/images\/zapmar.png\"><\/a>Post#381\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we should consider selectively breeding cats the same way humans have bred dogs over thousands of years\u2014for traits like loyalty, intelligence, and responsiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/uploader\/images\/2025\/05\/28\/cats-are-wild-animals.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[407,503],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-cats","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}