Scientific name:
Felis lybica f. catus

Natural spread:
global occurrences

as trunk-form of the house-cat is worth the fallow-cat (Felis libyca, wildcats).

The beginning of the Domestikation (Haustierwerdung) will be presumable to begin 6000 years ago. Certainly, house-cats from the old Egypt were proved. One knows eldest representations from the Niltal already from the young-stone age, 4000 v. Chr.). A grave-painting from Sakkarah (after 2750 v). Chr.) if the cat shows already with the typical pet-attribute, a collar. From the new empire, we even know from the time of 1580-1350 v. Chr. Hunt-scenes, which cats show in the reeds near the Heranholen of game killed in the water. The cat was regarded not only as mice and rat-huntress but above all as Schlangenvertilgerin and enjoyed divine honors. The death penalty stood on its killing. One found hundred of cat-mummies in Bubastis.

After 600 v. Chr. if the cat is mentioned in China. Only after 500 v. Chr. it reached to Greece, after 400 v. Chr. to South-Italy. However only about 100 v. Chr. if it began to oust them in the old Rome as rats and Mäusevertilger of held ferrets until then. Until in the 10. Century n. Chr. if cats were quite rare this side of the Alps and were valid as precious property. To means and Northern Europe, the returning home crusaders brought cats, who replaced the weasel in the late Middle ages as previous Hauptmäusevertilger in the estates of the farmers, to bigger extent.

Beside our general village and city-cat, who let itself a variety through heritage-alterations arise for differentiating coloring-variations on and on, was executed also by the human being of aimed breedings on certain qualities and manifestations. The actual race-breeding, that we have to owe an immense number of very different so-called noble-cats, however began only less than 100 years ago. Therefore, domestikationsbiologisch essentially don't distinguish our noble-cats from the "normal" house-cats for itself. With the race-cat-breeding, above all heritage-alterations were used, that involved the hair-length. So, a multiplicity of long-hair and short-hair-races, approximately the Persians and Angora-cats, was created the Siamesen and orientals on the other side until to completely hair-draws lots bare-cats. Tail-fuss-defects led to total tailless-ness, so with the Manxkatzen, beside it. But the house-cat could never be bound as completely as the dog all race-breedings of the defiance into the household. Each cat-holder knows that often more its cat at its house as well as. the apartment tied is as even at it. it also avoids the influence largely through the human being, never took place also just like a scheduled breeding on certain services or failed. With a reason for the largely claimed independence may lie also in the household, that cats were not turned into the pet like the other usefulness-animals from the human being but made essentially even to it.