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 Domestic Cats

 Did you know cats do not have nine lives? It all started in ancient Greece. The sun god named Ra toke the form of a cat called a sphinx and he gave life to nine other gods. When they were attacked by the people of Egypt those same exact gods lived unharmed. And because of this people all over the world believed that cats had nine lives but don’t believe those people there wrong. Cats first became domesticated in Egypt. The reason cats were kept as pets was to keep rats and mice away from grain and wheat stores so the mice or rats don’t eat or take some of the grain or wheat.  And back then the penalty for killing a cat was death because they were thought as a god or goddess sometimes cats were mummified when they died. For millions of years Egyptians had cats and having a cat spread throughout the world. When you look into your cat’s eyes you should thank the Egyptians for that without them who knows if we would have cats today.

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