Housecat Duties

Look on the left. The cat hardly seems real, right? But he is. Beebee the scrappy Siamese enjoys taking basket-naps in the afternoon sun. I can't blame him, since at the moment it's 2:30 and if I were nestled somewhere comfy and warm, I would definitely fall asleep.



According to Smithsonian, "Cats were first domesticated in the Near East, and some [researchers] speculate that the process began up to 12,000 years ago." Archaeologists have induced that cats came in with agriculture. Stores of surplus grain necessitated rodent control, at which felines were adept. Humans got tired of rats eating their millet and such, so they encouraged kitties to live nearby. Over the course of time, wildcats became the smaller, slightly more sweet-tempered creatures that reside in houses across the world. Read more on The Atlantic.