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Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
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The Egyptian sun-god, Ra, changed himself into a cat in order to battle evil. Bast, the goddess of fertility and love, always took the form of a cat (body of a woman, head of a cat). The ancient city of Bubastis was her chief seat of worship.
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It may take as long as 2 weeks for a kitten to be able to hear well. Their eyes usually open between 7 and 10 days, but sometimes it happens in as little as 2 days.
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The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
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Of these, only the felidaes (felis catus - or 'felix the cat') have been domesticated - or rather, have consented to domestication.
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