Humans domesticated cats to hunt mice and protect grain, similarly to how they domesticated dogs and cattle.
Explanation:
The central idea of the text was on how human domesticated cats. This was done solely inorder for them to hunt for rice which eats the crop grains.
<em>The protection of the crop grains is a necessity hence the approach towards the domstication of the cats. It was also through similar approach that gogs and cattle where domesticated.</em>