How to caress and stretch the cat according to science
Many of us will face that friendly cat that likes to be touched at some point, just to bite us or hit us lightly afterward. In this case, it may be easy to blame the cat, but what most likely happens is that we don't know how to master the cat the right way. To understand why, we first need to know more about the cat breed. The ancestors of the domestic cat (such as the African wildcat) were probably considered merely a means of pest control, but contemporary cats are often treated as one of our valuable owners or as "fur-coated children". This social shift in the relationship between humans and cats is believed to have occurred about 4,000 years ago — a little more delayed than the "man's best friend" — the domestic dog. Although this may seem like enough time for species to fully adapt to growing social demands, this is unlikely to be the case with your son-in-one. Domestic cats also show a relatively modest genetic deviation from their ancestors, which me...