On Mar 13, 2:30 pm, Ingo Siekmann <Ingo-Siekm...@web.de> wrote:

> I think we have dealt with meaner threats than a bunch of furball
> coughing, milk-lapping, ball-of-yarn chasing pussies who sleep during
> most of the day.
>
> PS: Anybody who babbles about how smart cats are is either lying or has
> never owned one.

Perhaps we all need to think "tiger".

I agree, omnivores probably beat carnivores in this cultural model.
The more powerful the carnivores are (like dragon-size cats), the more
highly developed the omnivore civilization becomes to defeat them.
But that is itself an interesting effect upon the world.

I also agree we can rule out coexistence without some kind of
carnivore enclave.  Homo sapiens seems to not have coexisted nicely
with Homo neanderthalis, after all.