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This book was written in 1987 but remains timeless in it's gifted understanding of cat behavior and how people respond to natural cat displays.
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Cat Behavior... a Test of Human Emotions
Any discussion of cat behavior and the mystery behind why cats act the way they do has to include the human response to cat behavior. People will experience a full range of emotions to the way cat behavior affects them. From adoring care giving and/or surrogate motherhood, to anger, resentment or viewing a cat as an adversary to dominate. No pet has quite the capacity to elicit such an extreme range of emotional responses as a cat, who in many cases is just "being herself". Most cat owners, especially novice cat people, can recall those times that they were sure their cat knew exactly what to do to make their owner go ballistic. No matter how many times a cat was shooed away from a plant, table leg or kitchen counter, her owner would always find their cat repeating the same offense... time after time. The offense would be repeated so many times that the human half of the equation would expect to find their cat paying absolutely no attention to the rules of the house each time they entered the room. No matter how much the cat is adored, her owner will usually have at least a low level of anticipated anger, ready to erupt when the cat is found violating the rules... again.
Cats have been around about 25 million years. The first domestic cats (Felis Silvestris Libyca) appeared in Egypt about 5000 years ago. Throughout history ever since the cat was first domesticated by the Egyptians, cat behavior has been dramatically influential in affecting human emotional responses to the presence of cats. Sometimes to the detriment to the cat, and other times to their great benefit.
At the back of the cat's eye is a highly reflective layer called the 'tapetum', which bounces light around in the eye, therefore making maximum use of all available light which enters the cat's eyes. This is what's reflected when light is shined into the cat's eye. The Egyptians didn't know much about reflection and assumed that the light was generated in the cat's eyes. To the Egyptians, the sun, known as Ra, was the god who created the world. The rising of the sun every day was a symbol of the creation. Now, cats are nocturnal creatures, whereas people are diurnal, or light oriented creatures, and for the most part are fearful of the dark. Human eyes just don't function well in darkness. So, what the Egyptians observed was a night creature who hunted effectively in near total darkness, and whose eyes seemed to be a source of the light of Ra. The night time cat behavior of being a proficient hunter made them ideal for protecting the stores of grain which people depended upon for food. This, combined with eyes that could see in the dark by generating a source of light just as their chief god Ra could, elevated the cat to 'god' status in the Egyptian multi-theistic religion.
The advent of the Medieval period of history saw a reversal of fortune for our cat friends. People were (and still are, for that matter) just as afraid of the dark as the Egyptians were. For these early Christians, there was only one, though intangible, "God" and people were created in His image. Therefore, being good night-fearing faithful, the night had to b