Domestication of dogs is said to be around 15,000 years ago and “caveman” refers to humans in the paleolithic which is between 3.3 million and 11,700 years ago. So there’s a few thousand years where technically a “caveman” could have a pet dog.
Domestication of cats occurred around 9,500 years ago so past the cutoff for caveman.
To add, cats partnerships with humanity came with agriculture which is post caveman.
Cats were like… get a proper house and some animals that do milk and I’ll think about moving in 😤
Lots and lots of domesticated lice.
Thanks, I hate it.
Fun fact there are animals known as face mites living in your skin right now. I hope you have good day 😊.
If that isn’t existential, I’m not sure what is. 😬
The russians have been domesticating wild red foxes since the 1950 with visible success. Thats within the lifetime of two human generations.
Dogs are said to have been domesticated multiple times, both deliberately and self-imposed.
I can definitely see a caveman domesticating animals over very few generations
I once heard someone say dogs domesticated us, not the other way around. We were played, bro!
Dogs didn’t selectively breed us for specific physical and behavioral traits.
