Look at it from the cat’s point of view. The originals were a couple of types of small desert car in the middle east and north Africa. From their perspective, here are these people who appear to be wild, since their interaction with others (the cats) is mostly throwing things at them. But if I change their behavior by bringing them the bodies of rodents who spoil their grain, they get friendly and will let you live safely among them where you can continue to take advantage of the free meals. The cat didn’t change. The human’s they tamed did.
Look at it from the cat’s point of view. The originals were a couple of types of small desert car in the middle east and north Africa. From their perspective, here are these people who appear to be wild, since their interaction with others (the cats) is mostly throwing things at them. But if I change their behavior by bringing them the bodies of rodents who spoil their grain, they get friendly and will let you live safely among them where you can continue to take advantage of the free meals. The cat didn’t change. The human’s they tamed did.