dog

Everyone always says that dogs are man’s best friend, but were they the first pets? The dog was one of the first animals humans began domesticating. People began domesticating it about 10,000 years ago during the Neolithic period for hunting, housekeeping and play.

It coincides with the period of the Agricultural Revolution when mankind changed from nomadic hunters to farming and living in settlements, according to historical accounts.

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But another group of archaeologists believe that foxes were the earliest human pets. They found a human-fox burial in a cemetery located in Hammam Springs in northern Jordan, 16,500 years ago, which is 4,000 years earlier than the human dog, proving that foxes may be the earliest prehistoric human domesticated pets. Scholars theorize that because foxes were too cunning and dogs were more loyal, humans gave up foxes and chose dogs as pets.

cats

Lastly, there is the pet cat, which is said to have been really domesticated rather late, only about 6,000 years ago. It started in ancient Egypt in the Middle East. At first, cats were not kept as pets, in the tropical desert climate in the Nile basin in the snake, rats, crocodiles, poisonous insects are more, seriously plagued by human production and life, the cat is the local people are specifically invited to catch rats, will catch snakes, shoot crocodiles, fight scorpions and so on. Cats as an important partner of human agricultural production life continues to this day. Ancient Egypt is more than 5,000 years ago, and it is considered to be the forerunner of keeping pets in written records.

The young cats of the African wildcat are relatively easy to domesticate, so it is now recognized that they should be the main ancestor of the domestic cat. There are more than 200 recognized breeds of domestic cats, which are basically differentiated by their appearance into two categories: long-haired cats and short-haired cats, while the rest are classified as hybrids.

Whether it is a cat or a dog as a pet they have been with humans for a long time and are good companions of humans. We should treat them equally, respect them and treat them well.