RE: Re: Alynx can be accepted by Lunars?

From: martin.helsdon <martin.helsdon_at_i_SbZ9IHS_Qac3fUWTcLnZZp9qqj1l3Y6yrQnta_O_rGB8nWo__82wwiW--Sj>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:14:57 -0000

Jeff,

> Prior to the domestication of the cat, the ferret was the pet of choice
for keeping
> down the vermin but this went out of vogue sometime in the Bronze Age as
cats
> don't smell as badly as ferrets and are generally more readily house
trained.

That may have been so in northern Europe (domestic cats in Britain seem to have arrived just before the Romans) but there's evidence from a burial on Cyprus of domesticated cats 9500 years ago.

Regards,
Martin