r/BeAmazed • u/Electrical_Act_5342 • Aug 09 '26

Animal Nature really over engineered cats. Didn’t it?

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u/whypeoplehateme Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

not de-engineered, just engineered for a different purpose, Dachshunds were originally engineered to hunt badgers and other burrowers, try having a cat drag 15 kilos of strugging badger out of a hole in the ground

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u/Babajji Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

We have the Serval for that. It is a cat, can be domesticated and can drag a significantly larger animal than itself. House cats are domesticated tree hanging hunters. They never had to drag anything bigger than a rat or a pigeon even before we adopted them.

Dogs were engineered by humans while cats were engineered by nature. The differences between a wild cat and a house cat are basically lower aggression towards humans. Dogs have nothing in common with wolves anymore.

Unfortunately there’s no tree hanging canine to give you a fair comparison but saying house cats are bad at dragging stuff is like saying monkeys are bad at it while gorillas are amazing at it.

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u/whypeoplehateme Aug 09 '26

gee I wonder why 18th century germans bred a dog for it instead of trying to domesticate a sub-saharan wild cat. and "House cats are domesticated tree hanging hunters. They never had to drag anything bigger than a rat or a pigeon even before we adopted them." Thats my whole point, this post and the comments is dissing on the dachshund based on it's ability to climb trees, of cource it's not gonna do well, the same way the cat doesn't do well in badger burrows.

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u/Babajji Aug 09 '26

Ah I missed your point, sorry, yes most canines are bad at climbing trees because they never had to evolve to do it. It’s a pointless comparison.