Comment by wtcactus

Makes sense. Cats don’t have use for hunter-gatherer populations. Dogs do.

But when we joined into bigger and bigger agricultural based societies, cats became very handy to control pests.

I remember when I was a kid, there were these stray cats where I lived. One of them - this old scraggly looking black cat - would spend hours on the prowl, in front of a sewer right outside my parents house. When a rat came out, he would go for the kill - and for its only meal.