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1. In the ancient world cats were worshiped as gods

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 09:03 PM

Jan 2016

They have not forgotten this. -Sir Terry Pratchett

Cool article, although I would submit that cats have domesticated people rather than vice versa.

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Were cats domesticated more than once? [View all] Little Tich Jan 2016 OP

In the ancient world cats were worshiped as gods Fumesucker Jan 2016 #1

Cats Domesticated? Really? Yavin4 Jan 2016 #2

Those wacky humans... uriel1972 Jan 2016 #3

Cats would have been absolutely indispensible in hifiguy Jan 2016 #4

A cat thinks . . . FuzzyRabbit Jan 2016 #5

Better headline: "Did cats adopt humans more than once ?" nt eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 #6