the cat and the man

Enigmatic animal, considered sacred or damn by different civilizations or at different times, the fascination that produces its contemplation, has something of esoteric and mysterious. This small representative of the family of the félidos ones, has been united to the history of the man with a charisma totally different from the one from the dog. Unlike this one, the cat is lost no its half-wild and independent animal identity.

The origins of the domestic cat are also dark and controverted, attributing to crossings or adaptations of the cat I mount Felis silvestris and of the Libyan cat lybica Felis.
Momias of faraónicos cats, found in Egypt and that they date from very different historical periods, as well as Egyptian the pictorial and escultóricas representations, allows to locate the origin of the domestic cat 2OOO years a. of C. and by all means in the valley of the Nile.

The magical and religious attributions and the mitológicas connotations that surrounded the origins of the cat, were much more behind schedule, during the Average Age, related to demonic and you vitiate to such an extent which, the persecutions to that creditor became, it seems to be that they influenced in the increase of the populations of rats and in the subsequent happened epidemics of plague in the Medievo.

The different races from cats that exist must to the artificial selection made by the man, but he is peculiar to verify that so polimorfas they are neither diversified as those of the dog nor, by all means, as numerous as those of this one.

The behavior of the cat is inherent to the species and it is not determined with fixedness according to the races unlike which it happens with the dog; only some races of cats that have physical defects, deafness for example, logically present/display diferenciables guidelines imputable to the defect that must surpass and not to the property to a certain race.

Like hunter who is, the cat pleases of the watching and captures of the most common prey: pajaritos, rodents, small lizards, etc., although adapted perfectly to the diurnal life, their habits are preferredly crepusculares or nocturnal, whereas during the hours of the day, it passively dozes and it observes the world that surrounds to him.

A cat which we enjoyed semifreedom can, by treated good that is, can leave the home of its proprietor and settle in the one of neighboring if it is fed there and not harassed, but this happens, only when he is agredidio or bothered in his home of origin.

These peculiarities of the cat to him do despised dear or by the man, but always respected by their effectiveness like controller of mice, undesirable rats and other rodents.

The cat, always with its controverted idiosyncrasy and its particular magnetism, constitutes one of the most attractive domestic animals.

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