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carnivorous mammal and it is the only domesticated animal of the feline family, and is often referred to as the domestic cat to distinguish it from the rest of its family of wild cats.
Cats can be either domestic cats, farm cats, or wild cats, the latter category roaming freely and avoiding contact with humans.[4] Humans like the companionship of
Cats are similar in anatomy to other types of felids, they have a strong flexible body, fast reflexes, sharp teeth and retractable claws
adapted to killing small prey, and they have the ability to night vision and a well-developed sense of smell. Cats communicate by making sounds such as meowing, purring, refining, hissing,
growling and grunting, as well as the cat's own body language. The cat is a solitary hunter despite its social disposition. Cats can hear sounds that are very faint or very high-frequency to human ears,
such as those made by mice and other small mammals. The cat is a predatory animal that is most active at dawn and dusk. The cat secretes pheromones and can distinguish them.
Female domestic cats can give birth to kittens from spring to late autumn, and the resulting number of one litter often ranges from 2 to 5 kittens.
Domestic cats are bred and exhibited at events as registered pedigree cats, a hobby known as cat lover culture. Among the factors that led to the emergence of large numbers of wild cats around the world: the failure to control the breeding of domestic cats by sterilization and castration, as well as the abandonment of pets by their owners, which contributed to the extinction of entire species of birds, mammals and reptiles, and thus triggering the Animal population control
The domestication of cats began in the Near East around 7500 BC,[10] and it is believed that the ancient Egyptian civilization was the origin of the domestication of cats, as cats were honored in ancient Egypt around 3100 BC As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States with 95 million
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