Modern domestic cats are descendants of the African wild cat, a species which hominines have always co-existed with.
Cute, Max. Is hominines a real word?

"Homina, homina, homina!" -- Ralph Kramden

Oh, no! I don't owe any cat anything!...My cat owes me! I am a true hominid, through and through...you'll never make a hominine out of me! "Gimme that old time idism! Gimme that old time idism! Gimme that old time idism! It's good enough for me!"

Of Australopithecines, their tools and weapons:
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/p200/p200notes1.20.html

Is hominines a real word?

Sure. You grind 'em up and make grits. Right, AnnaStrophic?

Ohh, YART ahead! Buttered cats, levitation, etc.....

Australopithecines

That's Australopithecids to you, O Great Lumbering Hairless one.

That's Australopithecids to you, O Great Lumbering Hairless one.


Of course!...how could I commit such a treason? The Naked Ape is the only primate worthy of distinction!

You grind 'em up and make grits*. Right, AnnaStrophic?

I know dat's right, honey!

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*Girl Raised In The South

I wonder how the Dick Whittington and his cat legend got any believers.

Whaddayamean....legend?

Since cats were known for thousands of years in Egypt and elsewhere, it seems improbable that a single cat would have a high value in Morocco or Tunisia or wherever it was sold.
A pretty story, but perhaps not based on fact.