Cat snuggled under white duvet. My cat sleeps on my face. By this I mean, we snuggle up in bed and she snoozes with her little head rested directly on my face. It’s ridiculous. I both treasure it entirely and know..." /> Cat snuggled under white duvet. My cat sleeps on my face. By this I mean, we snuggle up in bed and she snoozes with her little head rested directly on my face. It’s ridiculous. I both treasure it entirely and know..." /> Cat snuggled under white duvet. My cat sleeps on my face. By this I mean, we snuggle up in bed and she snoozes with her little head rested directly on my face. It’s ridiculous. I both treasure it entirely and know..." />
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Turns Out, Cats Were Domesticated More Recently Than We Thought

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My cat sleeps on my face. By this I mean, we snuggle up in bed and she snoozes with her little head rested directly on my face. It’s ridiculous. I both treasure it entirely and know that we are absolutely pathetic in our sleepy codependency.

It’s so strange to think that her ancestors were wild and that they didn’t need to be on a SPECIFIC part of a human’s bed to sleep through the night.

When we speak about the domestication of cats, we speak as if it was 10,000 years ago and that we’ve been longtime companions with these felines. However, scientists have recently uncovered evidence that our bond doesn’t go back quite so far.

When were cats actually domesticated?

Well, a new

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