Now hear me out: maybe it’s just the size difference

If cats were the size of wolf spiders and wolf spiders were the size of cats it’s not entirely unreasonable that humans would have instead domesticated wolf spiders, again hear me out.

Humans domesticated cats to keep rodents, insects and other pests under control, with them being the right size to hunt things soo small they are hard for humans to hunt, but not soo big that they can’t pursue the smaller pests. If wolf spiders were this size they would excel at this task, likely even moreso than cats. With generations of humans growing up around these cat sized spiders we would form a bond with them, the same way we did with cats, perhaps people would happily cuddle with their little wolfies, while being creeped out by the tiny cats

I too find it highly unlikely that he could transfer enough nicotine laced saliva to her to get her addicted, I feel like it would be more likely for her to get hooked on his second hand smoke