Cats may have helped the age of exploration as well. They kept the rats off the ships, the sailors ate their safely stored food, and perhaps the sailors gave the cats some fish they caught (how else to explain a small desert or forest cat liking pellagic fish?). When things got desperate, I would suppose a few cats got eaten too along the way. OTOH, a cat can go a lot longer than a human without freshwater or food.
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