Cats have always been a favorite among the pet lovers community. The small, adorable little furballs hold a very special place in most people's hearts,young or old, in today’s constantly changing society. From viral internet videos to playing with shoelaces on the living room floor, cats have made a big impact on many. While that is a spectacular thing, cats had to through countless cultures and civilizations before finally arriving in the present day society, alongside humans. The very first form of felines appeared around 40 million years ago, going by the name of “Miacidae”(Smith-Strickland para. 1). However, the actual first sighting of felines that look the most similar to the ones we have with us today appeared in Asia(Smith-Strickland
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4). It was here where cats made a very big impact on humans, 12,000 years ago(Smith-Strickland para. 4). This impact had much to do with farming, mainly because the Mesopotamians would enlist the help of these cats to help protect their grain storages from rodents who would wish to feed on it themselves (Smith-Strickland para. 4). This partnership soon turned into a friendship, which highly impacted the close relationship we have with cats today(Smith-Strickland para. 5). Smith-Strickland reported,” ‘ we think what happened is that the cats sort of domesticated themselves’ researcher Carlos Driscoll told the Washington Post in 2007”(Smith-Strickland para. …show more content…
Many Egyptians, in fact, tied cats to many gods and goddesses, and because of these connections, they were thought to be types of demigods(Hill para.1). They even went as far as to believe that seeing a cat in your dreams would grant you the gift of a good harvest(Hill para.2) Even hurting a cat in the Egyptian villages could be punished via execution(Hill para.20). Many cats were mummified with their necessities following their deaths, very similar to how Egyptian pharaohs were mummified(Hill para.24).Some archaeologists found the mummified remains of a cat in a rich pharaohs tomb(Smith- Strickland para.6). Ancient Egypt online reported “As an inscription on the Valley of the King's states “ you are the great cat, the avenger of the gods, and the president of the sovereign chiefs, and the governor of the holy circle; you are indeed the great cat’”(Hill para.
4). It was here where cats made a very big impact on humans, 12,000 years ago(Smith-Strickland para. 4). This impact had much to do with farming, mainly because the Mesopotamians would enlist the help of these cats to help protect their grain storages from rodents who would wish to feed on it themselves (Smith-Strickland para. 4). This partnership soon turned into a friendship, which highly impacted the close relationship we have with cats today(Smith-Strickland para. 5). Smith-Strickland reported,” ‘ we think what happened is that the cats sort of domesticated themselves’ researcher Carlos Driscoll told the Washington Post in 2007”(Smith-Strickland para. …show more content…
Many Egyptians, in fact, tied cats to many gods and goddesses, and because of these connections, they were thought to be types of demigods(Hill para.1). They even went as far as to believe that seeing a cat in your dreams would grant you the gift of a good harvest(Hill para.2) Even hurting a cat in the Egyptian villages could be punished via execution(Hill para.20). Many cats were mummified with their necessities following their deaths, very similar to how Egyptian pharaohs were mummified(Hill para.24).Some archaeologists found the mummified remains of a cat in a rich pharaohs tomb(Smith- Strickland para.6). Ancient Egypt online reported “As an inscription on the Valley of the King's states “ you are the great cat, the avenger of the gods, and the president of the sovereign chiefs, and the governor of the holy circle; you are indeed the great cat’”(Hill para.