If dogs came from wolves and coyotes, why are there still cats?

Question

My Mom found me in the cabbage patch :-)

I want to be planted in the home of a breeder.

Okay Bettie, I'll know you by the mark of the beasts on your T-Shirt.

God, that's boring, Will!

Answer 1

because cats are superior! cats rock!

Answer 2

First off, dogs are pack animals and cats are loners. The canine pack has very distinct roles that each member fits into. Cats like to work alone.

Also cats have a very important place in the advancement of civilization. Once humans discovered that cats kill mice and rats, humans no longer needed to be on the move continuously to find food. They could now store grain and keep cats to catch the mice.

Dogs have also played an important role in human development as a work animal.

Cats and dogs are apples and oranges, there is no comparison possible. Most importantly, they both have contributed to the quality of life.

Answer 3

I believe cats are still around due to their ability to adapt and survive. If you've ever seen a dog chase a cat you'll notice that the cat will climb a pole , tree or another object of relative height which the dog can't reach. The simple fact that the cat can climb and dogs can't traverse the same paths allowed them to survive. This may seem speculative, but it makes sense.

Answer 4

It's lies. Dogs did not come from wolves and coyotes. God created dog later on and planted them in the homes of breeders.

Answer 5

because kitty meow, meow is the meanest beast on the face of the earth and is also curious, which is a sign of intelligence. also people liked the way they cleaned up the scraps by their camps. the egyptians liked kitty meow, meow so much they said it was a god. the abbsynian cat is said to be decended from that ancient egyptian cat because it has a long tail like the egyptian god.

Answer 6

Dogs didn't come from wolves and coyotes. Dogs came from wolves.

http://www.idir.net/~wolf2dog/wayne2.htm

The earliest remains of the domestic dog date from 10 to15 thousand years ago; the diversity of these remains suggests multiple domestication events at different times and places. Dogs may be derived from several different ancestral gray wolf populations, and many dog breeds and wild wolf populations must be analysed in order to tease apart the genetic sources of the domestic dog gene pool. A limited mtDNA restriction fragment analysis of seven dog breeds and 26 gray wolf populations from different locations around the world has shown that the genotypes of dogs and wolves are either identical or differ by the loss or gain of only one or two restriction sites. The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence.

In comparrison, the gray wolf differs from its closest wild relative, the coyote, by about 4% of mitochondrial DNA sequence (Fig. 4). Therefore, the molecular genetic evidence does not support theories that domestic dogs arose from jackal ancestors. Dogs are gray wolves, despite their diversity in size and proportion; the wide variation in their adult morphology probably results from simple changes in developmental rate and timing.

Answer 7

Not only from the cabbage patch, but recently dropped off the turnip truck.

Answer 8

Tell your Mom to take you back to the cabbage patch

Answer 9

silly all life came from planet 10 in the andromeda galaxy and we are a prison for folks from other planets nah just a joke the cats adapted to the environment as they needed to cope with the surrondings as we do thats why its either God had aplan for each animals life here and a purpose or they are all specializations adapted to each niche in the environment

Answer 10

There are hundreds of species of every animal, depending on climate and geographic location not all evolve in the same way. Quite obvious, hope this helps!

Answer 11

good point, cats dont look like dogs, cats branched off from lions or tigers? snakes branched off from dinosaur lizards, its very complicated oh you must of branched off from the 'cabbage patch kids' :) oh i dont accept the whole 'branch' theory, this was all intended to be sarcastic :D