In some video, I recently watched (which may very well have been posted to Lemmy), it said that dogs had already gotten domesticated when we were still mostly hunters. We would take them onto hunts and then give them part of the hunted meat.

Cats, on the other hand, only got domesticated when we started doing agriculture, as they could hunt all the vermin much more effectively than a dog.
In particular, this also meant that cats did not need other food. You just kind of kept them around your village and they'd live their own life. That's probably a big part of why they hardly got domesticated, too.

Makes you wonder what house cats will be like given the time frame dogs have had.

Probably more of an asshole attitude

Based on how quickly behavioral and morphological changes happened in Soviet experiments on silver fox domestication, I suspect that domestic cats are about as domesticated as they're gonna get.

Cats were just waiting for humans to get their shits together

So in 16000 years humans will be fully domesticated by cats. I welcome our eventually cat overlords.

Honestly they don't need to go further they're perfect as they are. I like their semi(house)/full(stray) autonomy, frankly I respect them. Cats almost feel like adults, dogs (as much as I love them too I just don't want to own one) feel like smart (sometimes) children.

So what you're saying is there should be much friendlier cats in the Warhammer 40K universe

I've seen some pretty pampered pussies owned by Korean youtubers that give me an idea what it would look like.

They will probably have domesticated us, instead of them.

Exactly the same as they are now.

Nope, nevermind. It was just a ruse to get me to open the door.

toxoplasmosis has entered the chat

Think that would interest people? I've thought about writing up a "One year of posting to Lemmy" post now that I've been doing this pretty much daily for a full year. Maybe if I do, I could include this.

If i compare my 7 pure-indoor-cats and my 2 "found outdoors abandoned by mom cat at about 8 weeks age"-cats over my lifetime(not all at the same time ofc! i'm neither masochistic nor a cat hoarder), they had completely different stances towards humans; the 8 weeks without humans didn't make the "foundlings" unfriendly per se, but far less "human bullshit"-tolerant.

i suspect there's more nurture than nature going on here, but i have not enough resources for a double-blind study with n=500, especially regarding bed space and hands.

Well their brains also shrunk because they got us to do some of the thinking necessary to keep them alive.