Recently, the ancestry of dogs has been a popular topic. I think it's super sweet to think about how our partnership led to companionship. The story of how the human-dog relationship began is very two-sided in that wolves started hanging around and then humans decided to bring them in. The story of the human-cat relationship is much more one-sided. Believe it or not, cats domesticated themselves.
Their story begins in the Fertile Crescent around 10,000 BP (Before Present, strangely refers to before 1950 lol) with the ancestor of Felis silvestris lybica or the African wild cat, the O.G. of cats. If you have a domestic short hair or American short hair, you probably will find it difficult to see any differences.