Mõne aasta tagune statistika ütleb, et Euroopas on 60 miljonit kassi ja 56 miljonit koera. Kassid on salapärased, nad ei lase meid endale ligi, kass ei räägi endast ja kassi me ei „loe” nagu koera. Kass on salapärane ja põnev.
Kassi kodustamine on saanud alguse Lähis-Idas ja mõnede allikate põhjal juba 12 000 aastat tagasi. Pikka aega peeti kassi kodustamise algusajaks 2000 aastat eKr, aga 2004. aastal avastati kassi jäänuseid Küprosel asuvast matmispaigast, mis pärineb 9000–7000 eKr vahelt. Kuna metskasse Küprosel ei olnud, pidi ta olema sinna toodud, aga vaevalt oleks keegi hakanud saarele vedama metsikut kassi. Nagu on kirjutanud Briti zooloog Desmond Morris: „Turtsuv, kriimustav, paanikas metsik kaslane oli ilmselt viimane olevus, keda nad oma paati oleksid soovinud.”
On ka andmeid, et kodukassi tunti 6000–5000 aastat eKr Jordaanias ja 2000 a eKr Lõuna-Iraagis ja muidugi 2500 a eKr Egiptuses – selle kohta on ka kõige rohkem teada. Kass kui koduloom on otseselt seotud nisu ja odra „kodustamisega”. Põlluharimine saigi kassi ja inimese tihedama koostöö aluseks, sest viljaaidad meelitasid ligi hiiri ja rotte ja need omakorda kasse kui näriliste looduslikke vaenlasi. Aga hiirte ja rottide püüdmiseks oli omal ajal ka teisigi loomi: taltsutatud aafrika metskass ja jaguarundi, Vanas Roomas tuhkur ja nirk.
Now cats has become a world first pets.
A few years ago the statistics says that in Europe there are 60 million cats and 56 million dogs. Cats are mysterious, they will not let us be close, cats are not talking about themselves and we can not "read" cats like a dog. The cat is mysterious and fascinating.
Cat Domestication has its origins in the Middle East, and in some sources as early as 12 000 years ago. For a long time it was considered the beginning of cat domestication period of 2000 years BC, but the cat was discovered in 2004, the remnants of Cyprus from a burial ground, which dates from between 9000-7000 BC. Since wild cats in Cyprus had not, he had to be brought there, but hardly anyone would have begun to pull a wild cat on the island. As a British zoologist Desmond Morris has written, "he breathed out, scratch, panic wild cat species was probably the last creature, whom they would have liked to own a boat."
There is also some evidence that domestic cats were known in Jordan, 6000-5000 BC and 2000 BC in southern Iraq in 2500 BC in Egypt, and of course - this is the most well known. Cat as a domestic animal is directly related to wheat and barley "domestication". Cultivation became the basis for closer cooperation between cat and human, as granaries attracted mice and rats, and they turn into cats as natural enemies of rodents. But for catching mice and rats was at the time the other animals: Tamed African wildcat and the Jaguarundi, in ancient Rome, ferret and the weasel.
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