Human, cats and utilities

For a long time human beings and cats coexist, during 9500 years, Felis silvestris catus accompanies us. Recent studies indicate a direct origin of the domestic current cats with the wild cats of the Middle East, knocking down the idea of that the wild african cat, Felis silvestris lybica, is his more immediate ancestor.

Depend of contex cats have been loved or hated. In the Ancient Egypt were venerated because they were considered and estimated by his sweetness, his grace and his sloth, but the cat is especially a protective animal, if it weren't for they presence, Egyptians might not have protected their silos, vital resource for this civilization, from the rates.

In the Medieval Times they were burned in the bonfire, besides that they were used to medical porpuses. With their bodys persons were doing ointments and medicines, even with their excrements were used frequently the preparation of recipes to diminish the fall of the hair or to treat the fever or the epilepsy, even when in the periods of hunger or of site one was eating the meat of cats.