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Origin of cats

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It is a near European universal word from Latin Catta brought by the Romans. The Greek word is also Katta, earlier Arabic words are Kadis and Kadiska and even Qat. Egypt domesticated cats as along ago as 2000 bC

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It is thought that cats come from Egypt, because that is the first record of them.

Actually,Cats live in deffrent pats of the world..........."I" think that the first cat is probably a regular cat,Because most cats were mutated....The simes cat was how ever not.....some Asian scientists made a brother and a sister cat mate and when they did a creepy twined cat was for a babby.Now dogs were almost the same but ill get into that for other questions. but that is what i read and was told.

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