Neal, you are acting as if domestication does not exist, because cats and dogs, horses, pigs, and cows are the roots of domestication.Originally Posted by azpythons
Didn't you ever read Animal Farm?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/domesticationdo⋅mes⋅ti⋅cate
/dəˈmɛstɪˌkeɪt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [duh-mes-ti-keyt] Show IPA verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
2. to tame (an animal), esp. by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.
3. to adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.
4. to accustom to household life or affairs.
5. to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
6. to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.
Corn is a domesticated plant, and so are most of the fruits and vegetables that you eat. Those did not exist the same way before human beings did something to change it.
In my eyes, this definition explains that the animal or plant had to exist (as a species) because of human beings.
House cats have become their own species, yes some have been released, but they were created by humans.
How many milk cows and draft horses do you see in the wild?
How many poodle dogs do you see running around upper Canada and Alaska with the wolves and coyotes?
How many ball pythons do you see in the wild?
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