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How Cats Became Our Gods | History of Cats Episode 5

Lindsay Nikole | September 28, 2025



Cats have been alongside us for as long as we’ve been human. And at some point, cats became known to us as symbols, tiny cats became companions, obsessions, and some became our gods. I’m gonna introduce you to how this obsession unfolded. This is episode 5 of the History of Cats, that we know of!

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  2. @JohnDoe-sq5nv

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Considering how extremely strong small house cats are for their size, I would not want to get near a Great Dane sized cat.
    Also, I wouldn't call cats untrainable. Mine are very trainable, just not in the same way as dogs are. Mine know several tricks, they come when I call their name, or when I tell them that the food is ready, but only if they want to. And in the same way they've also trained me, they know what to do to make me do specific things and will repeat the commands if needed and get frustrated if they don't get the expected results. As an example, every morning one of my cats will wait until I go on the toilet, jump up on my lap and expect me to turn on the faucet so that she can drink water. The same cat will also jump up on the cat tree and call for me when she wants to be petted, and if I try to leave to early she will grab me and hold me in place until she is done. It is a way of communicating, training, performing tricks and setting expectations and boundaries that I believe elevates them above being untrainable.
    Cats are weird and puzzling.

  4. @screamingfluffycat

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    4:00 the clockwise (Deosil?) and counter clockwise (withershins) is a bit tricky. it depend on where the hands end up pionting. as you can have them point either way regardless of which way you spin. mainly demends on if you want the points to be at the bottom top

  5. @kayla_mallen

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Omg the soulja boy crank that / euphrates river song parody that my 5th grade history teacher showed us in class!!! AHHH love that reference. And LOVE this series!!!! 🐱💕

  6. @SaheeliRai

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    I just listened to a book where the protagonist, a witch, spelled her cat familiar to be able to talk. And he is just demandung 'FOOD!!!' And calls every human 'B!tch'. But he can actually talk very eloquently, he is just refusing to do so 99% of the time, because he gets his way with one word commands 😂

  9. @matthewpeters2062

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Basically, dogs are a tool we changed to do several different jobs. Cats just kind of Did The Thing and did it REALLY good. We didn't need them to help hunt, herd, guard, etc because dogs already did that. So we left cats alone. If it ain't broke…

  14. @orewatowi

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Lindsay I nearly died watching your little "cat story demonstration" with the face filters lmao. This was a great episode, I especially loved seeing the museum exhibit!

  17. @perspectacle

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Rats and pest control?!? Are you high? These are miniature tigers! We cannot safely keep 400 kg murder machines, but Mama Natura made some tiny tigers for our personal cuddle fetishes!
    Science!!!

  23. @greenman720

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    So if you’ve been having problems with people unfollowing you? I just asked because I’ve been waiting on pins and needles for the cat videos to come out and I finally searched you and realize that YouTube had me not following you anymore

  32. @rowshambow

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Please make a video about gynandromorph birds and how there is a good chance that some sexually dimorphic dinosaurs could have been gynandromorphs and how that would have looked crazy.

  46. @nikkicat254

    September 28, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Being a HUGE cat fanatic, I love all these cat centered videos, I love to hear good things being said about them, because i feel cats are greatly misunderstood by most people, which is why some actually say they hate cats, and usually don't even have any real reason, they just do, it's insane! Cats are my favorite animals, but I don't hate dogs, just because I love cats.

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