![]() ![]() ( MORE: Cats Have Been Crashing on Our Couch for 5,300 Years) At the same time, they are intensely territorial, and males especially wander within those more circumscribed realms. ![]() With all due respect to cat lovers-of whom, worldwide, there are as many as dog fanciers-long distance travel is not felines’ strong suit. No matter how we slice it, dogs also make excellent companions on the trail. From the start, they appear to have filled a variety of roles as hunters, watchdogs, and guardians. But new evidence out of China has placed the date for the origins of the cat there some 3,500 years earlier than previously thought.ĭogs, it is now generally agreed, arose in the camps of hunting and gathering peoples perhaps 30,000 or more years ago. Follow question of which came first, the dog or the cat, has long been settled: Canines are the clear winner by what looks increasingly to be tens of thousands of years. ![]()
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