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Monday, January 09, 2006

Kitten

Cat has been living in close association with humans for at least 3,500 years; the Ancient Egyptians routinely used cats to keep mice and other rodents away from their grain (and also believed that cats were sacred). Its most immediate, pre-domestication ancestor is the African wild cat, which is a solitary animal. Dogs, on the hand, have been living in close association with humans for at least 10,000 years, and were domesticated from wolves, which are social animals. This difference in origin may partially explain why cats are loners while dogs need company.

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