Origin of all pussys' traced to 5 Middle Eastern Cats

[Aunty]

Study Traces CatтАЩs Ancestry to Middle East


Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wildcat crept into one of the crude villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley. There she felt safe from her many predators in the region, such as hyenas and larger cats.

The rodents that infested the settlersтАЩ homes and granaries were sufficient prey. Seeing that she was earning her keep, the settlers tolerated her, and their children greeted her kittens with delight.

At least five females of the wildcat subspecies known as Felis silvestris lybica accomplished this delicate transition from forest to village. And from these five matriarchs all the worldтАЩs 600 million house cats are descended.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/scien ... ref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/science/29cat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

Study Traces CatтАЩs Ancestry to Middle East


Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wildcat crept into one of the crude villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley. There she felt safe from her many predators in the region, such as hyenas and larger cats.

The rodents that infested the settlersтАЩ homes and granaries were sufficient prey. Seeing that she was earning her keep, the settlers tolerated her, and their children greeted her kittens with delight.

At least five females of the wildcat subspecies known as Felis silvestris lybica accomplished this delicate transition from forest to village. And from these five matriarchs all the worldтАЩs 600 million house cats are descended.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/scien ... ref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/science/29cat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

Im not quite buying into this research, we have wild puss here that look very much like slender mini Siamese like cats of South East Asia, spotted blue grey, that do sadly readily breed with domesticus, its not Chinese "dessert puss" so needs DNA sampling? Could be a missing link to yet more domesticus puss ancestor.
I don't want to seem pushy, but has "catapuscat" managed to escape? It would be such a relief to know he wasn't on his ninth life, safe amongs all this uncertainty hanging over his credentials.

And they STILL won't do what you want them to do!
Never knew an animal treat humans with such.... disdain. :cat:

And they STILL won't do what you want them to do!
Never knew an animal treat humans with such.... disdain. :cat:

I assume you havn't yet met BG then?