[Nasrudith]

History - pre litter boxes they were put out for the night. Plus their role has long been "grainery guard" and rats have caused major health problems. Even if cats aren't actively hunting them barring toxoplasmosis their scent scares mice. They auto-domesticated because agriculture made massive food reserves and the ones who didn't have the "Furless quadrupeds who constantly walk like angry bears, are about ten times your mass, have claws the size of your head and kill far bigger things! Run away!" sensible response to humans like most animals and had a reducded scatter distance which let them raid our grainery raidera were favored.

The fact of the matter is we have long /wanted/ their response be to kill all the scurrying rats and tiny birds weren't exactly a concern compared to not dying.