On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:41:42 GMT, animaux wrote:

Cats are the only animal who chose domestication. It started in Egypt. The
cats would recognize around the huge silo of corn or grain, and that in these
silo's were plenty of mice and rats. Cats came into the situation and adopted
people. No other animal has ever intentionally domesticated like the now named,
common house cat.

Strictly speaking, cats aren't "domesticated", meaning substantially
changed from their wild counterparts and bred for the benefit of man.
While hundreds (thousands?) of dog breeds are quite different from
wolves in physiology and habit, cats are more "tamed" than
"domesticated." Simply going where the food is doesn't imply
domestication. :-)