2. • Towards 9.000 BC (the beginning of the Neolithic, with
sedentary), humans started to use dogs to hunt and to protect
them from the other animals.
• Later, they were considered pets, in the sense of company.
• The first dogs were wolves that the humans domesticated.

3. • In Ancient Mesopotamia (6000 BC-539 BC),
they celebrated a party dedicated to the dogs.
• In Ancient Egypt (3150 BC-31BC) a usual pet of
the Pharaohs was the lion, which was used in
the war too.
• In the reliefs despicting the famous battle of
Kadesh (1274 BC), the Egypt army fought with
the Hittites, Pharaoph Ramsés II appeared
fighting with his lion.
• Other pets (most popular for the poor people)
were cats, monkeys, and dogs. They were
buried with their owners.

4. • The favorite pet in Greece (1200 aC-146 aC) was the dog.
• Aristotle said: «There are seven races and the most popular is
the Molsser, a Mesopotian kind of dog».
• In the Odyssey, Homer tells the story of Argos, Odysseus’s
dog, who waited for his owner for twenty years and he died
when he saw his owner returning home.
• Cats were the other great pets of Greece. They were brought
from Egypt.

5. • In Ancient Rome (753 BC- 476 BC), the most
common pets were dogs, because they guarded
the houses. A lot of mosaics were found with
this warning: «Cave Canem» (beware the dog!)
• In the Roman houses, there were cats, pigeons,
ducks, crows and birds in general.

6. • Caesar (100 BC-44 BC) had a giraffe, who brought from
Alexandria and he showed to the Romans the animal (the
people never saw it!).
• Calígula (12 AD – 41AD) had got a horse called Incitatus.
Calígula worshipped the horse like a god. He ate with it and
he covered the horse with jewellery.
• Nerón (37 AD- 68 AD) had a wild panther called Febea.
Febea moved free during the dinners.
• The poet Virgil (70 BC- 19 BC), author of the Aeneid, sent out
a very expensive mausoleum for a fly to keep his land.

7. • The poor people had all types of farm animals:
pigs, sheep, horses… they lived in the same house together
and there were many problems with hygiene.
• People didn’t have any cats, because they thought were the
symbol of the devil.
• Rich people loved falcons, because these animals helped
them to hunt.

8. • Collecting exotic animals was a
sign of power in the Modern Age.
They used the wildest animals to
fight and they showed them to the
people the most exotic...
• Louis XIV of France (1638-1715)
had an elephant.
• The English Tudor dynasty (1485 -
1603) loved the monkeys and the
sons of one monkey belong to the
sons of the king (in the
image, Catalina de Aragón, the first
wife of Edward VI).

9. • In the Contemporary Age, pets have become more
numerous and diverse.
• Today, the most fashionable animals are the exotic ones:
pigs, alligators, tigers, squirrels, snakes and kangaroos.

10. • Marquis de Lafayette, one important politician and French
military (1757-1834), had an alligator. When he visited the
White House, he put the alligator in the bath.
• The son of the president of the USA had two alligators and
they lived in the garden.