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Where did cats come from???

4 Answers  |  Asked By: Stripes   21   

What country did cats come from?

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Answer 1
kitty

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You can find the answer to your question here:

http://www.catsinfo.com/history.html

By: Kat   3135
 

Answer 2
kitty

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the first recorded cat was in egypt. but USA got their 1st cat from brazil or somewhere in asia. i think.

 

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kitty

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Yeah i would say so!

By: hewittk   375

Answer 3
kitty

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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.

 

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kitty

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thats a really good answer!

By: catluvergirl95   860
kitty

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A really really good answer

By: hewittk   375
kitty

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It would be an even better answer if credit were given to the original author. http://www.catsinfo.com/history.html

By: Kat   3135

Answer 4
kitty

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i think egypt cuz they like WORSHIPED cats! i’d luv 2 live there

 

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kitty

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but egypt didnt import cats to USA.

By: KitKat   479

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