How did cats become domesticated? Unlike dogs, cats weren’t simply captured and bred by humans for specific jobs. Their story appears to have started thousands of years ago when wildcats discovered something hard to resist around early farming villages: mice. As people began growing crops and storing grain, rodents followed. Wildcats followed the rodents. Humans ...

Did Ancient Egyptians worship cats, or is that one of those history facts that got stretched over time? We’ve all heard some version of the story. Ancient Egyptians loved cats so much that they treated them like gods. The truth is a little more complicated. Ancient Egyptians certainly had a special relationship with cats. Cats ...