🌍🐱 Your cat’s ancient roots revealed! New DNA study shows domestic cats arrived in Europe from North Africa just 2,000 years ago via Mediterranean trade—not with early farmers. A purr-fect history twist for fur babies! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/ancient-dna-reveals-your-fur-baby-is-a-2000-year-old-north-african-import/

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Original #Catfluencer: How a Victorian Artist’s Feline Fixation Gave Us the #InternetCat

Louis Wain—an illustrator who boosted the popularity of cats at the turn of the 20th century—birthed memes a century after his most active decades.

by Lisa Hix

"[W]hen 23-year-old Louis Wain and his new wife brought a black-and-white kitten that they named Peter into their home in 1883, it was still an unconventional, but not completely outrageous, choice.

“Louis Wain wrote in 1909: ‘When I first took to drawing and painting [cats] they were treated as despised animals, looked on as vermin by sportsmen. … The man who would take an interest in the cat movement was looked upon as effeminate.’”

#Cats #CatHistory #CatsOfMastodon #Art #Artists #LouisWain

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/original-catfluencer-how-a-victorian-artist-s-feline-fixation-gave-us-the-internet-cat?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

What is this enigmatic feline pondering, I wonder? Could it be a memory of Napoleon Bonaparte?

Over the centuries, cats endured some bad rep as witches' familiars. It wasn't until Napoleon Bonaparte led his 'scientific' expedition to Egypt In 1780-1801that the Rosetta Stone was found by Champollion, and from there, the re-discovering of Ancient Egyptian culture, the cat goddess Bastet & the divine role of the cat in society.

Happy #caturday !
#bastet #cathistory #napoleonbonaparte
#catsrule

How did cats become domesticated?
#cathistory #LOC 😺

https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/zoology/item/how-did-cats-become-domesticated/