29 June 2007

kitty kitty kitty

Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wild cat crept into one of the crude villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley. There she felt safe from her many predators in the region, such as hyenas and larger cats, and the rodents that infested the settlers’ homes and granaries were sufficient prey for her.


they've found a human and an 8-month old kitty buried together 8,000 years ago---and how they came to be with us is totally different from the dogs----it's always been on their terms---i didn't know there were so many subspecies of wild cat (not feral cats, but truly wild)---and all of our house cats today descended from five females in one of those subspecies----that's a scottish wildcat behind the tree---there's only 500 of them left---

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