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Cats haven't been bred, they've been around for quite some time...

If you mean what cat species ORIGINATED the domestic cat we all know, some biologists think that it was the Egyptian Mau, that was bred from the wild species African wild cat, and some think that it was the Abyssinian, bred from a wild species of Sand Cat. Either way we know that domestic cats originated in Egypt around 4,000 years ago.

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