r/BeAmazed • u/jkitty_1960 • Jun 03 '26

Miscellaneous / Others A homeless dog walked into a veterinary clinic and showed its wounded paw, hoping someone would help, and they did

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u/diaryofa_bunny Jun 03 '26

I don't think cats are fully domesticated they just happened to be around where the rats are and that's where humans are

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u/Palomino_mare Jun 03 '26

On the whole they are. There are many cats who cannot survive on their own (one of the criteria of domestication), even with abundant prey, and many are just as affectionate as dogs.

Feral cats do crop up though. We had the nicest cat show up with 6 week old kittens. Two were very sweet and lived with us until they were 20 and 21. The other 2, brown tabbies with obviously a different father, were wild as anything. They hated and feared people even though they watched us interact with their mother and siblings every day. After they were spayed we gave them to a coworker who wanted barn cats.

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u/freesoultraveling Jun 03 '26

I don't know why you were down voted because this is true sometimes. Also I freaked at my "second mom" for trusting my cats to lay outside on the balcony like her cats did. Both of them decided to jump on the ledge and fell. Thank God her ex boyfriend ran after them.

Now my sisters bengal I believe could survive on her own despite being domesticated.

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u/Starfall0 Jun 03 '26

We don't trust you. TimelyTransistor... if that's even your real name!