HurganPL
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Dogs are obediant. And cats ?The appropriate comparison would be dogs.
"Would you use dogs as guards?"
Yes. ___________
Dogs are obediant. And cats ?The appropriate comparison would be dogs.
"Would you use dogs as guards?"
Yes. ___________
Can be trained like dogs if you have the right breed. Don't know if ancient Egyptian cats are one of the right breeds, but intentional breeding for the purpose would help a lot.Dogs are obediant. And cats ?
Do you have a reference for that? I've only ever seen it attributed to the black plague, primarily carried by rats.There may be a small problem with having cats prevent plague through killing rats. The flea that is the primary vector IIRC is called the cat flea, not the rat flea, as the cat is its preferred animal.
'Tis an interesting question. Sphynx cats often require bathing, but they would be less likely to carry fleas anyway, and of course that whole issue is moot if the POD is polydactyly instead of hairlessness. Ancient Egyptians did value cleanliness, but I don't know if that extended beyond bathing themselves to bathing their cats.what if the cats bathe?
Do you have a reference for that? I've only ever seen it attributed to the black plague, primarily carried by rats.
Bumped for coolness, and because I've been thinking about it again lately.
. Since polydactyly seems as though it would be the most immediately useful trait, I think I want to pursue that as the initial POD- the emergence of six-toed cats with opposable thumbs in ancient Egypt. Still got to work out how or if that could help trigger a temple breeding program (note- it doesn't need to be an intentional selective breeding program; priests maintaining the royal line of the Incarnations of Bast with the temple cats would do just as well), but in the meantime I'm interested in working out the ripple effects of the existence of 'improved' cats on the rest of Egyptian society.