History and legend of the feline

an independent animal with a so special personality that, inevitably, it causes as much unconditional adoration as excessive hatreds. If at a time it was object of reverence for the Egyptians, in another one accused of demon companion of witches. Today, along with the dog is the spread domestic animal more.

It counts the legend that, at the moment of the Creation, all the animals put in row, and each one to their turn, requested to God the attribute to him that they wanted more. The peacock wished beauty; gacela, rapidity; the lion, anger; the horse, grace; and thus each one made its order. The cat, that was the last one of the row, listened to well all the orders, and when its turn arrived requested a little each one of those attributes, without leaving of side no.

This is the cause by which the cat became one of the most perfect animals.

Beyond history and of the tastes, nobody can deny that the cats are the elegance and personified beauty.

Reverenciados in the time of the Egyptian and denostados Pharaohs during the Inquisición - when it was associated them with the devil because they accompanied the witches; but luckyly, for them who really are excellent mascots, affectionate, clean and companions, but ......, it is necessary to accept his independence and not to judge it by something natural of his personality. There are many people who had rejection to him for different reasons, associated generally to erroneous beliefs and when they themselves gave the opportunity him to the kitten and they adopted it like mascot, its opinion with respect to them changes in radical form and they go to the side of the defenders.

At the present time head head with the dogs, the companions of the human being from the beginning of the times competes. In Europe and North America they exist, at the present time, at least so many cats as dogs. Single in the United States 50 million cats exist.

The cats were object of cult in Egypt due to their ability to make diminish the population of mice in the cereal fields of the Nile, of capital economic importance. The Egyptian goddess Bastet, represented with body of woman and head of cat, was the goddess of the love and the fertility. The cats were also a sport for the Egyptians; tied to strap birds for the familiar table hunted: the master sent boomerang that demolished the birds so that the cat gathered them and gave to the master. Due to their economic utility, and to that it thought that they granted many children, the cats were so reverenciados that sometimes they are momificaban to bury them with his masters or in tombs designed for such effect.

Although the Egyptian laws prohibited to remove from the country the sacred cats, the Phoenician sailors took them of contraband. The cats were sold just as other treasures of East and, in the antiquity, they were throughout all the Mediterranean coast. Apparently, the Romans were first in introducing them in Europe.

He was worth it of the cats as predators were recognized in the middle of century XIV, when a plague originated by rats, well-known like the black plague, attacked the European population. Whatsoever, during the age he mediates the cats were hated and feared.
Due to his nocturnal habits one thought that they had deal with the devil. This association of the cat with the witchcraft has been the culprit of many acts of cruelty towards him through the centuries.
The Renaissance, nevertheless, was a time golden for the cats. Everybody almost had some, from the members of the real houses and their crew members to the peasantry.

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