Cats and humanity have lived in harmony for many years, but this has not always been the case. There have been times when cats have almost been wiped out in the name of God. And what happened, the black plague reigned much longer than it should. Then we will return to the beginnings of the history recorded at the time of the pharaohs of Egypt. Here, cats were revered as gods and many were mummified to last forever. Because cats watched the grain deposits and killed the rats and mice that were feeding on the grain. Therefore, reducing famines was the curse of Egypt. It was illegal to kill cats at the time, like cows in India today.
Then the nine lives of the humble cat who just wanted to help humanity by killing rodents carrying diseases took a serious turn for the worse in the Middle Ages. Where witch hunts and bonfires were the norm. Someone who did not like cats linked them to witches and they were burned at the stake with their owners. How they made that connection, I will never know. It started with Pope Gregory IX in 1232, who considered the common domestic cat to be evil. Then, to make matters worse in 1484, came the greatest cat killer of all time, Pope Innocent VIII, who decreed something about the lineage of all cats, who came from hell and should return to the fire from hell with fire. The cats were mercilessly treated and burned so they could return to hellfire. It is surprising that he survived because if you were caught with a cat, you were burned together. I always go to church and sometimes I wonder why. And, of course, the black plague was basically surviving and thriving because there were no cats to kill the rats carrying the fleas that caused the disease. Then came the cat savior, King of France Louis XIII, who in the 1630s repealed the law and cats began to live again. But they were still hated and killed for centuries after that. I don't know if the plague has gone down, but cats have again protected humanity from rodent-borne diseases. And starvation caused by mouse pests.
Cats are carriers of parasites, fleas and diseases, and some can become serious, but few in number. If cats caused too much disease, they would not have invaded our lives as well as they did. But there are still people who don't like cats. When I first went to China about 20 years ago, there were very few cats living with people and very few wild cats. I was surprised because I have had cats all my life and I never thought that people would not like cats. But then, in China, people said that cats had diseases and that was it. I think it might have something to do with this sick cat that puts you in the eye. It doesn't matter, just a little problem for a week. And if she was pregnant, she had to stay away from cats. I think they were referring to toxoplasmosis, but if it contracts when you are a child, it should not affect your baby. They also said that the cats were dirty, but I don't think so. I think cats are one of the cleanest animals you can have. I think it came from cats that killed rats and mice. Because rats are very dirty animals, and then because cats have killed and eaten them, they will also be dirty. One dirty thing per type of connection. There were also large sewer rats running during the day. I saw a rat and a cat face to face and the cat was not much bigger than the rat. They were a foot apart looking at each other and the cat ran away. I am not surprised that rat teeth are larger than cats.
I think one of the reasons there weren't many cats was because they ate them. And from time to time, cat captures from the restaurant picked up a cat they could find and brought them back to the restaurant. I remember seeing cats in shop windows in front of restaurants. But in the meantime and now, they have forbidden to eat cats. Cats are no longer on the menu and now there are cats everywhere. Most of them started at someone's house and were discarded because most of them are very friendly. They also have this thing about stomach worms. And at that time, China was not as modern as it is today, so stomach worms would have been a problem. Fleas are not really a problem as they have tiled floors and wooden furniture.
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