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Cats are one of the most popular pets
It was long thought that cat domestication began in ancient Egypt, where cats were
venerated from around 3100 BC, but recent advances in archaeology and genetics have
shown that their domestication occurred in Western Asia around 7500 BC. As of 2021,
there were an estimated 220 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the world.
As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States,
with 95.6 million cats owned and around 42 million households own at least one cat.
In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat with an estimated population
of 10.9 million pet cats as of 2020.