Guns, Germs, and Steel chapter 9

Question 1:
On page 173 Jared Diamond discusses the domestication of cats and ferrets. As it turns out there is something rather unusual about the domestication of these two species. Why are they so atypical, and how is it exactly that they don’t fit the mold of other domesticated animals? Explain.

A animal social structure is ideal for domestication, because humans can take the dominate roll of hierarchy. Since they instinctively fallow the leader of the pack they can be herd and taught to be domesticated. But members of most solitary territorial animals can't be herded. For example they can't tolerate each other, they don't think of humans as being the dominate leader, and there not submissive. These are very key parts in domesticating a species. For example cats and ferrets were domesticated, but not like dogs were; they were trained to raise food and to kill rodents. Were dogs, sheep, cows, etc. were domesticated for them to be used in large groups, or to be used in hunting circumstances.