{"id":31905,"date":"2015-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/do-domestic-cats-exist\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:00:00","slug":"do-domestic-cats-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/will-goodings\/do-domestic-cats-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do domestic cats exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Experts clash over whether cats count as a domesticated species.<\/h3>\n<p>Although cats have lived with us for nearly 10,000 years, experts disagree about whether they\u2019re actually domestic animals.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s scientific research that suggests domestic cats still have genomes very similar to wild cats. 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Although cats have lived with us for nearly 10,000 years, experts disagree about whether they\u2019re actually domestic animals. There\u2019s scientific research that suggests domestic cats still have genomes very similar to wild cats. But other scientists vehemently disagree. 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