Thank you for your cooperation. Craig and I maintain which we've moved to our own property. If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. The cat family apparently evolved from the same ancestors as contemporary mongooses and civets. Fossils of the cat family date back about 40 million years.
Domestic cats comprise just one of almost forty different species of cats.
The cat allowed itself to become domesticated, not in a desire to befriend man, but because of man's communities with the hordes of rats and mice attracted by their stores of food. Among the seven continents, only icy Antarcticia remains catless today. The ancient Egyptians, first domesticated cats 4,000 years ago. Not only did they welcome the cat for protecting their grain, they actually revered the cat. They developed cat cults and temple worship of the cat.