[pjmlp]

As someone that has always been around cats and dogs a great deal of my life, and reaching 50, I never got that.

For millions of years they did just fine without any kind of gourmet food, or stupid fancy clothes.

[blacksmith_tb]

To a point, we've also bred at least some them to have some fairly severe health problems, and also raised them in a dramatically different way then they would have evolved with - but of course we also keep them from dying young from disease or starvation.

[pjmlp]

Wolves and other felines aren't doing that bad, other than survival issues caused by mankind.