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International Cat Day, also known as World Cat Day, is a holiday that was created in 2002 and is used to not only celebrate the friendship humans and cats share but also to advocate for the safety and well-being of cats.

This holiday is celebrated annually on August 8th.

History of International Cat Day

For many years, scientists have been trying to find out how exactly cats came to be, and it seems like they have recently solved that mystery.

A wildcat was buried near the corpse of a person in Cyprus who lived approximately 9,500 years ago.
That suggests that humans may have had a relationship with cats that goes back much further than initially thought.

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Scientists believe that cat ownership can be traced all the way back to central China, about 5,500 years ago.
Although farming had been done by human beings long before that, it is believed that around this time, agriculture really took off.

However, with agriculture came grain surpluses, and with grain surpluses came rodents.
Rodents that would eat all of the grain – which at the time was mostly millet or rice. To co

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