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6/18/2025, 2:05:34 PM
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Those are are fair points, but there is a cavet regarding Egypt and England. The earliest Egyptian documentation of cats dates around 3000 BCE. This was a time where the middle east was starting to build trade routes across the region and areas such as Mesopotamia was a big hub of that trade. Bearing in mind that current historical analysis places the begining of domestication with cats to be around 12,000 BCE with the adoption of farming in Mesopotamia, it is not difficult to see how it could be argued that Egypt's cats may have orignated from Mesopotamia originally before being naturalised. England is an interesting case however. For most of its history along with Scotland they had their own wild cats which roamed in the wild. However, domestic cats only started to appear with the Roman occupation of England. The Romans took domestic cats virtually everywhere they went and these cats again originated from the middle east, and by extension, Mesopotamia. But these domestic cats began to interbreed with the native wild cat population and as a result a far more varied lineage formed compared to the middle eastern stock. The interbred so much that they virtually killed off the native wild cat population and still to this day there have been failed attempts to re-introduce wild cats into the wild only to be intermixed with domestic cats again. Regardless though, you can argue that there were emergent domestic cats in europe because of the nature of wild cats, but the extent to that being still true today is questionable due to the level of cross breeding that has taken place over the course of thousands of years.
Those are are fair points, but there is a cavet regarding Egypt and England. The earliest Egyptian documentation of cats dates around 3000 BCE. This was a time where the middle east was starting to build trade routes across the region and areas such as Mesopotamia was a big hub of that trade. Bearing in mind that current historical analysis places the begining of domestication with cats to be around 12,000 BCE with the adoption of farming in Mesopotamia, it is not difficult to see how it could be argued that Egypt's cats may have orignated from Mesopotamia originally before being naturalised. England is an interesting case however. For most of its history along with Scotland they had their own wild cats which roamed in the wild. However, domestic cats only started to appear with the Roman occupation of England. The Romans took domestic cats virtually everywhere they went and these cats again originated from the middle east, and by extension, Mesopotamia. But these domestic cats began to interbreed with the native wild cat population and as a result a far more varied lineage formed compared to the middle eastern stock. The interbred so much that they virtually killed off the native wild cat population and still to this day there have been failed attempts to re-introduce wild cats into the wild only to be intermixed with domestic cats again. Regardless though, you can argue that there were emergent domestic cats in europe because of the nature of wild cats, but the extent to that being still true today is questionable due to the level of cross breeding that has taken place over the course of thousands of years.
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