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  • Decoy321@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldunder siege
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    11 months ago

    Unless the cat is lactose intolerant, they won’t likely suffer any significant health effects. Anecdotally speaking, my cats have not cared much for tomato based foods. My ex used to feed them bits of our human food to satisfy their curiosity. They’d eat the meat and cheese out of it and leave the pasta bits alone.

    Then one of them would leave diarrhea on my most expensive furniture. Every fuckin time.












  • You can actually do it on a much shorter time scale, depending on the species in question. A Soviet scientist in the 50s started it with foxes and had noticeable results by the 4th generation, less than 2 decades later.

    The real catch here is in the semantics, defining your terms and expectations. How much genetic drift you’re aiming for, and what traits you select, what results are functionally “good enough”, etc…

    In this example, we probably don’t need fully domesticated animals, some tamed generations should be good enough.