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Cats have been in existence since well before Egyptian times which date back to 3100BC!This is why they thought of them as gods. They believed they were an ancient creatures that could save them all from the Nile flooding, but obviously they were wrong.

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cats have been around for a long, long time, as they were once worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt.

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The earliest cats were Panthera, they are modern big cats and evolved about 6-10 million years ago.

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Some ten thousand years or more. It is hard to determine exactly when dogs were domesticated from wild canine species.

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About 6,000 years. They have been found in tombs in Egypt mummified .

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For over 100 years

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