What is the cat thing? Cats are human friends or how?

minute voice
7 min readNov 1, 2020

Cat’s motto: “No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look as if the dog did it.”

You know when people see a cat’s litter box, they always say, “Oh, have you got a cat?” Just once I want to say, “No, it’s for company!”

These are the real-life jokes you always can relate if you have a cat as your pet. Obviously not with stray cats!

This morning my cat ‘Tolby’ actually helped me to learn something as I suddenly got curious about the fact that why pet a cat?

So this is what I really found worth sharing.

When a group of French archaeologists landed on the island of Cyprus in 2001, they quickly found that they were outnumbered despite having a population of 1.2 million people Cyprus turned out to have an even bigger population of cats. By some estimates, as many as 1.5 million felines, including both pet cats and feral cats roam the country.

You can find them particularly everywhere!

But Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean and if you have ever tried to give a cat a bath, you know most of them aren’t big fans of water. The closest mainland is turkey, about 70 kilometers away! So how did all of those cats get there? Well, those french archaeologist might have found the answer.

While excavating the site of an ancient settlement, they discovered something quite…

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