Why do some people hate and fear cats?
As a small carnivorous species of crepuscular (active in low lighting–dusk or dawn) mammal that is valued both for its company and for its ability to hunt vermin, as well as over 1,000 other species of prey. It has been associated with humans as far back as 9,500 years. The earliest archeological record of cats and people together comes from a 9,500-year-old grave discovered in a Neolithic village on the island of Cyprus. This site as well as others show that the cat played some sort or religious significance. It had always been thought that the domestication of the house cat began with the early Egyptians, but in 2007, as study showed that all house cats are probably descendants of as few as five self-domesticating desert wildcats (Felis silvestris Libyca) circa 8,000 BC in the Near East. It has long been the premise that c
