Cat, who owns who??
"Meow meow, hi there!" Almost every morning, I talk to a furry, cute, white and gray loveable animal, a cat, my neighbor, walking around our apartment’s porch. In spite of my paying "great regards" to the cat every time, it deals with me so capriciously, which disappoints me most of the time while a person passes by me with a dog wagging its tail and showing its love to the owner. Nearly every time, the cat glances at me and goes back to its "work" almost ignoring me. But I cannot give up talking to it every time I see it. Its look, voice, and appearance are enough to carry away me. Once in a while, it replies to me, or comes to rub against my legs, which satisfies me a lot. At such times, ...
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by this furry little animal for a long time. In spite of the popularity of having a cat as a pet, its mode of life is still a very riddle, while most kinds of the domesticated animals are already documented. Bradshaw mentions that domestication of a cat is unusual compared to other domestic animals. Cats are not domestic species "made" by man such as dogs, and also they are not an animal trained for the purpose of helping man’s work, such as an elephant. It is more likely that cats themselves accept humans as part of their lives (6). Perhaps this is the reason why a cat’s mode of life is still behind a veil in spite of its important place among humans. "Cats are domesticated, but it was the cats that domesticated themselves." It is obvious that cats are nearly perfectly domesticated, or at least they look as if that they are having perfect relationships living with humans, but it was not humans that domesticated cats. Cats chose to live with humans.
It seems that cats first ...
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wildcats originally, meaning cats were taken there with humans from somewhere else. Or, in Middle Egypt, there was a man found buried with a cat. The cat was buried around the man’s feet, and there was a gazelle buried with him around his mouth. This shows that the cat was his pet and the other was his food (20). There is much other evidence to prove that the cat and the human have been together for a long time. Cats seemed to start being domesticated from around the time of ancient Egypt, and have successfully spread all over the world, to all continents except Antarctica, and to many islands.
Humans often analyze cat behaviors through a human mind. When a cat rubs its body against ...
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