> What domesticated animals were bread for "cuteness"? Fairly recent experiments with domestication of foxes show how it might work. What you select for is be

> What domesticated animals were bread for "cuteness"? Fairly recent experiments with domestication of foxes show how it might work. What you select for is behavior. Mainly you breed individuals that neither attack humans nor run away from them. Any other response than aggression or fear is ok. In few generations it turns out individuals selected this way retain more and more juvenile traits. I think cats never needed to get domesticated because reacting to humans with neither aggression nor fear is within natural range of perfectly normal behaviors of most individuals of this specific niche feline species that got globalized through its relationship with humans.