Egyptian Cat

The egyptian mau mau being the egyptian word for cat is notable for being the only naturally spotted domesticated cat.

Egyptian cat. The origins of the abyssinian cat are not very clear but everything seems to indicate that it comes from. In their native egypt they are considered a street cat the shirazi is a medium sized longhair cat that has a thick bushy tail. It is made of bronze with gold ornaments. It is considered a rare breed.

Cats were praised for killing venomous snakes and protecting the pharaoh since at least the first dynasty of egypt. Gods associated with cats. Several ancient egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat like heads such as mafdet bastet and sekhmet representing justice fertility and power. The breed is not recognized yet by any cat registries.

In egyptian the word mau means cat this striking and dignified cat resembles the cats worshipped by the ancient egyptians. A shirazi is a crossbreed of an egyptian mau and a persian producing a semi longhair spotted cat. The jungle cat felis chaus and the african wildcat. There were two main breeds of cat native to ancient egypt.

It is a breed derived from the wild cat which was domesticated by the ancient egyptians. Cats in ancient egypt were represented in social and religious practices of ancient egypt for more than 3 000 years. Skeletal remains of cats were found. Domestic cat felis catus egyptian maus are a small to medium sized short haired cat breed.

The most famous cat deity was bast but there are also a number of other ancient egyptian gods. They are the only domestic cat that has naturally occurring spots giving them an exotic appearance. Cats in ancient egypt history. The egyptian mau is the fastest and only naturally occurring spotted breed of domestic cat.

The gayer anderson cat is an ancient egyptian statue of a cat which dates from the late period around 664 332 bc. The cats were known in europe before world war ii but the devastation of the war left the breed in a perilous state. The deity mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat. The egyptians are actually responsible for the name cat in that it derives from the north african word for the animal quattah and as the cat was so closely associated with egypt and egyptian trade came to greatly influence greece and rome almost every other european nation employs variations on this word.

Cats in ancient egypt. They are one of the few naturally spotted breeds of domesticated cat. The egyptian mau is the most popular of all egyptian cat breeds. In other words the spotting pattern was not created by human manipulation of feline genes.