Who do cats bond with the most?

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asked Oct 8 in Cats by VillageHomeF (680 points)
Who do cats bond with the most?

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answered Oct 9 by Jasonwell9043 (1,300 points)
Cats bond with people who meet their physical needs and emotional needs the most.

People or the person that feeds the cat, plays with the cat and keeps the cats environment clean are who the cat is likely to bond with the most.

Cats often prefer to bond with people that are predictable, calm and are gentle and people who use quiet, high pitched voices.

Also a person's certain scent, the persons overall demeanor and the amount of consistent care the person provides to the cat also influences who the cat will choose to bond with the most.

Cats originated in the Middle East's Fertile Crescent, around 10,000 years ago.

Domesticated cats that originated in the Middle East's Fertile Crescent around 10,000 years ago, originated as wildcats were drawn to the abundant rodent populations around early human agricultural settlements.

And the earliest evidence of human and cat companionship is a 9,500 year old burial of a human with a cat on the island of Cyprus, which indicates transportation by boat.

The domestication of cats we know today was a mutually beneficial although not fully intentional process.

And early farmers stored grain, which also attracted rodents like mice and rats and the rodents in turn attracted wild cats who ate them.

And the availability of prey near human settlements also likely led to cats becoming accustomed to humans.

A 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus also shows a human and a cat buried together, and the cat's presence suggests that the cat was brought to the island by boat.

Genetic analysis also confirms that domestic cats also descended from the Near Eastern wildcat "Felis silvestris lybica".

Cats also spread with humans along trade routes and they were also very useful on ships that were transporting of grain from the Near East.

Cats, in the family of Felidae also first appeared in Asia around 10 to 15 million years ago, with their evolutionary radiation beginning in Asia during the Miocene epoch.

Modern domestic cats, although originated from the Near Eastern wildcat subspecies, "Felis Silvestris lybica" and were first domesticated around 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, which is a region in the Middle East.

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