>>7625825>Dogs are far more valuable to societyDogs helping with hunting was a huge step in human development, but a forgotten and, potentially, more impactful stage was fighting against the rodents and pests that were carrying diseases and eating our food surpluses when we first started accumulating food. This was a vital task for living in larger groups like humanity will end up doing. Guess what animal aided us.
Cats curbing the disease-carrying, supply-destroying and society-nerfing scourge's effectiveness meant we were able to save more food and support larger and larger populations. Indeed, without this feline help, humanity may not have been able to surplus enough food to grow large enough to allow us excess or creature comforts, skyscrapers or electricity, computers or, to pick something closer to home, action figures.