Whereas dogs were trained/bred/selected for specific purposes, I suspect cats were just kind of hanging out, following rodents which were were adjacent to human

Whereas dogs were trained/bred/selected for specific purposes, I suspect cats were just kind of hanging out, following rodents which were were adjacent to human settlements. It's easy to imagine humans simply tolerating them because they kept mice under control around grain and other food storage. Intuitively that matches my perception of the cat-human relationship vs. the dog-human relationship.