We've lived alongside cats for over 10,000 years. But to say we've domesticated them might be a stretch. Today, for lulz, we dive into our complex relationship with cats over the years, and how they became Lords of the Internet.

SOURCES:
"A Brief History of House Cats"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-house-cats-158390681/#2P8pwvOUAlwLlqvh.99-
"How Cats Became Domesticated"
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genome-comparison-shows-how-wildcats-became-housecats/
"Humans and Cats Have a Strange, Complicated History"
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/how-cats-became-domesticated.html
"When Cats Became Comrades"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/12/when-cats-became-comrades
"The genes that turned wildcats into kitty cats"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/11/genes-turned-wildcats-kitty-cats
And for fun...
"Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats"
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5900334/even-in-the-1870s-humans-were-obsessed-with-ridiculous-photos-of-cats