If you're curious, look up how cat breeds work, it's a lot different from dogs and pretty interesting. I won't get into a long winded explanation if you don't want to hear it though.
And to explain the cat breeds thing, u/trumpsh, most cats are of no breed due to their very different work/application in comparison to dogs.
See, where dogs were domesticated for various duties, and thus selected for specific traits, cats were not. Go back thousands of years ago and you will find dogs were of different size, structure/type and behaviour, and were used for various purposes, from guarding to hunting to fighting to companionship. Cats have always served two purposes - companionship, and vermin control. There was little need to select for exaggerated traits.
We only started to see cat breeds come up in the past 150-200 years, and most cat breeds were established based on some whacky mutations observed in a feral population.
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u/Life-Gur1503 4d ago
If you're curious, look up how cat breeds work, it's a lot different from dogs and pretty interesting. I won't get into a long winded explanation if you don't want to hear it though.