Talk:Cat

Template:Vital article

Improper Grammar?

This says "it leads to the extinction of bird, mammal, and reptile species". Shouldn't it be THE bird mammal and reptile species?

This term stands for several species of birds, reptiles and mammals. To use "the", one would need to clarify which bird, mammal and reptile species went extinct - obviously, it's not referring to all such species. beforeAdapter (talk · contribs) 2022-03-20T17:22Z

"History of cats" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect History of cats and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 6#History of cats until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Jay (talk) 07:55, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

what an absurd title

It seems that you use the common name of cats and not their scientific name, so you can differentiate better and avoid confusion, it seems that English Wikipedia does not appreciate the classification of names in Spanish Wikipedia.--2806:262:401:8D42:0:0:0:2 (talk) 06:47, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

In everyday language, using "cat" to refer to domestic cats results in less confusion. beforeAdapter (talk · contribs) 2022-03-20T17:18Z

Semi-protected edit request on 1 March 2022

The article says that it is felis catus but it is more appropriate to use felis silvestris catus. 2806:262:401:8D42:0:0:0:2 (talk) 06:54, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Felis catus is correct, see section *Taxonomy*. – BhagyaMani (talk) 08:18, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

See https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Felis_catus Duck Dawny (talk) 10:12, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Domesticated or Not Domesticated?

Hi, I submit that many cats are not domesticated. They chose to live with dogs, but could live, survive and thrive as a house animal. Currently, the article refers to the "cat" (Felis catus) as a domesticated species! Any comments? Duck Dawny (talk) 17:16, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

The usual term for that is "feral". AnonMoos (talk) 03:10, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

No, sussy is when a domesticated animal returns to being undomesticated, i.e. wild. In the case of many dogs they were never made and are still able to live in the wild, if they chose to. Duck Dawny (talk) 09:53, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Real African wildcats or European wildcats are not feral, but similar felines running free outside the range of where wildcats are found are overwhelmingly feral (as are many inside such geographical ranges). In some cases there can be hybrids of feral cats and true wildcats... AnonMoos (talk) 11:45, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

I think you're misinterpreting what "domesticated" means. From our article: Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which humans assume a significant degree of control over the reproduction and care of another group of organisms to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that group. While any individual cat may or may not be in a close relationship with a human, the species overall has been domesticated. To take another tack, if cats weren't domesticated, then living with humans wouldn't even be an option for cats as a whole; the fact that, by and large, cats can live closely with humans at all is a sign that they have, as a species, been domesticated. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 12:57, 28 May 2022 (UTC)