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utility of the cat, raised to the maximum by the Egyptians, widely was recognized by the Romans which they appreciated much the spirit of independence of the feline, until the point that the goddess You free was represented next to a cat, symbol of absolute freedom, until the point of which in century I d. Cs. dictated in Rome severe laws for their proteccción.
Also there were legal dispositions that recognized the importance of the cats in the British Islands, where, in century X, prince Howel published norms that fixed the value of the cats and established, among other things, which whom a cat killed it had to compensate to the proprietor of the animal with an amount of wheat equivalent in height to the length of the feline, from the snout to the end of the tail. In this way, it was tried to compensate to the proprietor of the cat by the losses of wheat that, lacking the feline, to him the awkward people caused.
In the Average Age, time of oscurantismo for the human species, the domestic felines were victims of a ruthless and unjust persecution, originated by the ignorance and absurd superticiones that they related to the animal to certain diabolic rites. The possession of a cat was enough to accuse a person of witchcraft and the sentence could consider if the animal safe era of black color.
In this way, during the Average Age death to thousands of human beings was tortured and given and million cats Barbarian, in the course of persecutions that were activísimas in all Europe and entered to comprise of the Christian rituals, like for example, the custom of festejar the Day of All the Saints burning alive to the cats in the public seats.
On the other hand, also it is necessary to say that the population paid expensive the elimination of the felines, because the proliferation of the rats, besides to produce serious damages to foods, favored the diffusion of the plague.
Until the last century the European did not begin to realize utility of the cat, and since then is used more and more it, mainly in the urban centers, although like animal of companía.
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Author: MV Enrique L Fernandez De Vanna