Cats have devolved since the Middle Ages

[packman]

[mr_lebowski]

1. I'd call becoming atheists 'evolving' but otherwise ... lol ;) nt

[sarge43]

4. Can you call an entity that believes it is a god an atheist? n/t

[Sanity Claws]

7. Best response, IMHO.

[sarge43]

19. Thanks

I don't think they've forgotten that they were gods once.

Ancient Egyptian: Bast and Bastet. Warrior and protector of grain and homes.

[lunatica]

15. LOL!

[Permanut]

2. That was back when more people thought the world was flat..

But if that was true, cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now.

[lunatica]

16. LOL!

[Baked Potato]

3. Cats tell us who they are, and we love 'em for it.

[Mrs. Overall]

5. Love this!!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. So why have MAGAts devolved?

and why are they so angry?

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Re: lazy

I don't know. It takes a lot of work to manufacture this much squee.

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[rickyhall]

9. I've never seen a cat walk on 2 legs, buy Chihuahua used to...

Before she got so fat... Oh, well.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. They were once worshiped as gods. How the mighty have fallen!

[IronLionZion]

11. T-rex cat runs around on hind legs

[TomSlick]

28. Cool.

A bipedal cat! An amazing critter.

[LudwigPastorius]

29. Somebody needs to take that clip of her running down the hall and...

put the Jurassic Park music behind it.

[Old Terp]

12. Trey says it's fake news put out by the Mad Dog Media

[jaxexpat]

13. Always wondered about that. Most of my cats devolved too.

[wnylib]

14. OP would be more accurate if it said

Victorian times instead of Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that cats were evil familiars of witches. Some cats were hung to death or burned. Some towns.drove cats away.

People paid the price of their cruelty to cats when there were no cats around to keep the rat population down during the Bubonic Plague.

[sarge43]

20. Good point.

The Ancient Egyptians were much wiser. Cats were revered because they kept the rats out of the grain storage areas. Harming or killing a cat was a killin' offense.

[wnylib]

22. To the Egyptians, cats were gods

I have a video about wild and domestic cats. It describes how the Egyptian reverence for cats was used against them in war. The Greek army had cats painted on their shields in the belief that Egyptians would not strike such a sacred symbol. The Egyptians lost the battle, although there is no proof that it was due to the cat shields.

My cat is so convinced of her own divine superiority that I gave her the added second name of Bastet, the feline Egyptian god.

[sarge43]

23. Bastet, good name for a house goddess

Bastet was the more gentle and domesticated aspect of Bast or Sekhmet, the warrior goddess. Serious bad news when her blood was boiling.

[wnylib]

24. Fits my cat, who can go from gentle

sweetness to indignant anger in a split second. Her first name is Ember, due to coloring and temperament. She is a tortoiseshell tabby (aka torbie) with black and gray stripes, like charcoal and ash, and red streaks here and there, like the embers of a fire, which can be cozy or can flare up into flames.

[sarge43]

25. If she wears a collar

get her a charm of the sun. Sekhmet wore the solar disk. She was the daughter of Ra, the sun god.

[wnylib]

26. No collar. She is totally an indoor cat

who has never been outdoors in her life and she is 4 years old. I live in a city at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in town. Far too risky to let her out.

[sarge43]

27. Well, just a thought.

Give her a back rub for me.

[JHB]

17. "Devolved"? They've reached the pinnacle!

[pansypoo53219]

18. they rule the internets.

[ailsagirl]

21. They rule. Period.