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The ancient Egyptians were probably the first people to keep cats but they did not keep them as pets.The cat was a god in ancient Egypt, or ,more correctly,a goddess.It is an interesting fact that the English people usually refer to cats as females.A male cat gets a special name to show that he is not female.He is a"tomcat ".In the English language ,a woman is called a"cat"if she says [MASK] things about other women,but we do not call a man a"cat"if he says unkind things about other men.If a man is not very nice ,we call him a"dog",not a"cat".