Domestic cats are independent‚ but they are still loving and affectionate. Cats have soft fur and have learned to become friendly to humans‚ causing humans to want to keep cats as pets. Those furry animals started off all wild and changed to domestic over thousands of years‚ but domestic cats still think like wild hunters (Bradshaw 7-8). Cats have evolved quite a bit. The evolution1 of cats is a long process that has occurred over several million years making cats better adapted to their environments
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A domesticated animal is any animal that depends on a human for food‚ water and shelter this includes farm animals such as cattle‚ horses‚ sheep‚ chickens‚ goats‚ dogs and cats. There are relatively few domesticated animals compared to the huge number of species on the planet. As well as the obvious there are also a couple of species of insect (e.g. the silk worm) that are classified as domesticated. Certain birds‚ besides chickens and fish‚ are also considered domestic‚ even a species of reptiles
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Cat Animal The domestic cat is a small‚ usually furry‚ domesticated‚ and carnivorous mammal. It is often called the housecat when kept as an indoor pet‚ or simply the cat when there is no need to distinguish it from other felids and felines. Wikipedia Scientific name: Felis catus Rank: Species Higher classification: Felis Lower classifications: Korat‚ Cymric‚ British Semi-longhai his article is about the cat species that is commonly kept as a pet. For the cat family‚ see Felidae. For other
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Anth 68 Day 8 From Wild Animals to Domestic Pets‚ An Evolutionary View of Domestication Domestication was allowed to happen mainly because animals gained a tolerance of human and human-contact. Hunter-gatherers first became docile‚ and started to domesticate plants and animals and developed agriculture. Domestication of today’s barnyard animals occurred as a result of these hunter-gatherers wanting to stabilize their food resources. Barnyard animals descend from herd- living herbivores whose ancestors
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ancient fossils and more recent bones. This evidence is known as the clue to the ancestor of all cats including the domestic cat‚ margay‚ and marbled cat. In China‚ Archaeologists have found the first clear evidence of domestic and/or “small cats” . The evidence was recorded at 3‚500 years old. Domestic cat skull Compare and contrast between the niche of the species. Domestic Cat: The domestic cat could easily live without humans. It is likely that they would thrive
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There are two kinds of animal abuse that can occur: Domestic versus non-domestic animal abuse. There are several laws that should be lifted to give non-domestic animals more rights and protective actions. To begin‚ Domestic abuse more so relates to “Companion animals” such as domestic dogs‚ domestic cats‚ small pet birds‚ and other non-livestock species. Though the rights of these breeds are extremely important‚ there are already numerous laws protecting them. These laws are fluid among
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New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence History In 1977 The New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence‚ which will be referred throughout this paper as NHCADSV was one of only two programs working in the state against rape and sexual assaults. However there were also three separate programs that worked to assist battered women. When the NHCADSV was formed there were no laws in New Hampshire that offered protection for domestic violence victims or funding of
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Abuse can appear unexpectedly in anyone’s life. One of many reasons people detect abuse or signs of abuse in time is because they don’t know what exactly abuse is. Animal abuse is cruelty to animals or intentional infliction by humans upon any non-human animal. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior‚ used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control. It can be physical‚ sexual‚ or emotional. Another way to know if abuse is present in your relationship is if one partner uses physiological
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There are many endangered animals in our world‚ and very few are critically endangered. One animal species that is critically endangered is the Iriomote Wild Cat. Key points to the Iriomote Wild Cat’s endangerment are habitat loss‚ not being well known‚ and feral domestic cats. The first part of the wild cat’s endangerment‚ and the most major is habitat loss. Iriomote Wild Cats live on the small island of Iriomotejima‚ southwest of Japan‚ the island is a meer 116 miles wide. Plus‚ Iriomotejima
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Sophomore Speech: Domestic Animal Welfare Domestic animals‚ deserve animal welfare. By definition animal welfare is‚ the state of an animal‚ that the animal gets the proper care both mentally and physically. Domestic animals deserve to have food‚ water‚ shelter‚ and protection. Many domestic animals are abused‚ neglected‚ or tested on by scientists. It is is very inhumane to put an animal through such things. Animals are very close to being like humans‚ so why should they be treated any different
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