Cats were domesticated in the Near East around 7500 BC.
It was long thought that cat domestication began in ancient Egypt, where
cats were venerated from around 3100 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.
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Coded by Lara Ke