| Show history of house cats D date atea back to the ark the long colorful history of the house bouse cat had its dawning in the ark that la Is if one Is to take the word of demirel Daml Da mirel rel the great arabian dat naturalist who wrote of animals in the eighth century of the Ile hegira gira according to a writer in the philadelphia inquirer when noah entered the ark his family represented to him that the mice would devour all their possessions whereupon tta the patriarch addressed a prayer on the subject to allah who in response caused the lion to sneeze a full grown cat from its nostrils the result being that the mice were not only kept in order during the deluge but were impressed with that timidity that has made them lurk in holes ever since notwithstanding the learned arabians ingenious account more recent scientific investigation indicates that the egyptians were the first to domesticate the cat a species of the african wild cat the life of the cats in the valley of the nile would seem to have been a bed of catnip figuratively if not cot literally they enjoyed high privileges in being held sacred to isis and to in fact cat headed deities were not uncommon in the egyptian pantheon mistreatment of the cat was a base crime in those days Dlo dorus related that a roman soldier who had killed a cat barely escaped with his life fron the hands bands of the infuriated people |
