[coolThingsFirst]

They are the funniest creatures on earth. Manipulative, hilariously small, arrogant and lazy.

Yet apex predators, god must have a sense of humour.

They went as far as manipulating prophet in islam so he placed them as ritually pure and a sign of faith for people who like them.

Christians killed them so bubonic plague came and ravaged europe. Coincidence, I think not.

[kjs3]

Cats (domestic ones, at least, and most that aren't 'big cats') aren't apex predators; those are predators with virtually no predators of their own. Cats are predators, but lots of things eat cats.

Not that my cats don't think they're top of the food chain.

[bombcar]

Big cats might be apex predators, normal house cats are just predators/prey.

Cat management is something worth working on; it's kind of annoying that many places don't have free spay/neuter locations.

[kjs3]

I think that's exactly what I said...

[dist-epoch]

They are the apex predators of their particular size (big cats or small cats).

[kjs3]

No. Small domestic dogs like terriers routinely kill cats. I've seen both a fox and a hawk kill a cat. The fox was perhaps slightly larger but not much; you maybe could say the hawk was 'bigger' by wingspan only but couldn't have weighed more than a third what the cat weighed. Owls take cats as well.

Cats are just predators.

[samatman]

The last paragraph is one of those commonly-believed things which did not, in fact, happen. https://going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/on-cats/