Where did domestic cats orignate from?

Hi there...The African wild cat is believed to be the ancestor of the domestic cat, since it is tamer than the European wild cats and active at night. http://www.moggies.co.uk/breeds/africacat.html

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Cats have always been a source of fascination for mankind throughout history. Today cats have become one of the world's most popular pets perfectly suited to the lifestyle of our day. They are beautiful, enigmatic and easy-to-care for pets. But where and when did the domestic cat originate? This page will give you some insight into this question.

It has been about 4000 years since the first cats were domesticated. The Ancient Egyptians were the first to keep and use cats to control vermin and other pests to protect stores of food. In Ancient Egypt, the cat was revered as a hunter and worshiped as gods and goddesses. The ancient Egyptians imposed the death penalty for killing cats and cats were also mummified before being buried.

Other ancient civilisations later began to domesticate the cat and took tame felines to Italy where they slowly spread around Europe. Eventually, they arrived in the New World with the Pilgrims. The shorthaired domestic cat spread across the world from Egypt while longhaired cats came later from Turkey and Iran. The domestic cat also spread from India to China and Japan.

Except for a short period of persecution in the Middle Ages when cats were associated with the devil, by the eighteenth century cats had become popular household pets world wide.

from wild ones ofcourse

people had cats a long time ago

like Egypt and Babelonia ,

they probably came with the Aliens

that built Atlantis

in school we learned that the Ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate house cats they were a prized possession

Egypt, when Cleopatra was in power. They worshiped domesticated cats.

Ancient Egyptians were known to have cats as pets. They protected their owners from evil spirits, or something of that nature.

Probably around the year 3,000 BC. The Egyptions were impressed with them.

egypt

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