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Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by jonnybgood on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:33PM (#14188037)
The principled reason to care more for dogs from my understanding is mutualism. Dogs are dogs because of humans. Same for cats.
Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by greenshackle2 on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:50PM (#14188179)
It's the same for farm animals though, isn't it? Modern broiler chickens, egg-layers, dairy cows and beef cattle, turkeys, etc. are very different from their wild ancestors.

Farmed turkeys can't have sex, they have to be artificially inseminated, I don't know who made them that way if not humans.

Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti... by chc on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:41PM (#14188100)
AFAIK the prevailing theory is that humans did not domesticate cats, and instead cats just learned to coexist with us because we attracted lots of tasty pests.