Yes, but it hasn’t always looked like that. What I’m saying, or trying to say, is that these cats are not the cats you will find in a Minnesota suburb because there are no African Wild Cats roaming the wilds of North America. It has nothing to do with the relatively recent industrialization and urbanization of the county and countryside. These specific cats have interbred and interacted with their wild cousins to an extent that they are likely less domesticated than the average feral cat in America. Domestication fundamentally changes an animal, and domestic/wild hybrids are therefore less domesticated and less wild. African Wild Cats cannot be kept as pets because they are wild animas which will always behave like wild animals.
Sometimes I feel like people deliberately misunderstand me to score points. I’m also saying people in Nairobi have a different understanding of and relationship to the cats in their lives than we do. I never suggested that people in Nairobi were living in tents on the Savannah.
Edit to add: look at how cats are treated in Turkey. It isn’t anything like it is here. They are considered basically wild but everyone looks after them collectively, and Turkey is a perfectly modern society. Even modern societies can have different relationships with the same animals than we do.
