You may have been asked “ Do you prefer Cats or Dogs? “ and there are many upsides and downsides to both.
But, it is near impossible to overstate how much cats have affected our society, from Egypt to The Internet.
You will learn about how cats have literally changed human brain structure to their effect on modern meme culture.
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To learn about cats, you must learn about why humans and cats first started interacting.
Contrary to popular belief, cats domesticated themselves and have barely changed since then. The first recorded interactions happened in Egypt since the first dynasty.
Cats soon grew to be worshiped as gods. There were many gods that took on personages of cats but an especially huge one was Mut.
Because they protected people from animals they were praised as hunters also.
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Interestingly, the Greeks also had cats, they replaced weasels as the best hunters.
Until about the second century BC in which it became the major hunter, weasels had their spot. They were replaced because cats were much nicer to be around and hunted with more flavor.
Eventually, Artemis became associated with cats which eventually led to cats representing royal families.
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Strangely, there is a disease given to you by cats which might have affected history. To start, there is a disease that cats carry called Toxoplasma gondii which causes rodents to go around cats.
A side effect of this is that it could infect humans. The effect of this is that men become more welcoming of the smell of cat urine and women become less.
But it also affects other species through cat poop getting in water. For example, it might infect an otter, causing it to die, causing kelp populations to fluctuate causing environmental problems.
On a scale of hundreds of species, this could cause large changes in the environment. It could also have unknown effects on humans which could have compounded over time.
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Since there has been the internet, there has been cats, from the ascii art on 2Channel to Sophie.Net.
The first cat video on Youtube was posted by the co-founder, this makes it apparent how important cats are with just this case alone.
Cat meme generators reach a consistent 100 Million users a month.
To quote The New York Times, “[Cat Images] are the essential building blocks of the internet” Cat videos consistently get more views than any other type of Youtube content.