Pets have been used to eliminate pests like rats and snakes. Pets have also become a self-perpetuating industry through breeding for various purposes like showing or racing. Horses and cats are two of the animals most closely associated with humans, though both were domesticated relatively late in history, with horses used in chariot battles by 2000 BCE and cats becoming domesticated in Egypt around the 16th century BCE.

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• Pets have also been used to eliminate animal
pests. The rat-catching ability of cats is
celebrated in fairy tales such as “Puss ’n
Boots” and “Dick Whittington,” as is the
snake-catching talent of
the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling’s “Rikki-tikki-
tavi.”

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• Finally, pets themselves have become a self-
perpetuating industry, bred for a variety of
purposes, including their value as
breeding animals.

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• Pets that are bred for aesthetic purposes may
have full-fledged show careers. Other pets
may be bred for racing or other competitive
sports, around which sizable industries have
been built. have been built.

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• Next to the dog, horses and cats are the
animals most intimately associated with
human beings. Surprisingly, both these animal
groups were domesticated rather late in
human history.

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• There is no evidence that horses were
domesticated in Paleolithic or Mesolithic
times, but by about 2000 BCE horses used in
chariot battles were an established
phenomenon throughout the Middle East.

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• It seems that riding astride horses was a
practice developed a few centuries later
(see horsemanship).

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• The cat too does not seem to have been
domesticated as a pet until the New Kingdom
period (about the 16th century BCE) in Egypt.

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• This is all the more strange as the ancient
Egyptians had tamed many types of animals,
such as lions, hyenas, monkeys, the Nile
goose, and dogs, since the Old Kingdom
period. . But once cats were finally
domesticated, their popularity was enormous.
Gradually, the cat became one of the most
universally worshiped animals.

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• Eventually, a working relationship developed
between the dogs and their human captors.
The dog was swifter, had stronger jaws, and
was better at tracking prey; therefore, it could
be of great use in hunting and guarding
duties.

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• But once cats were finally domesticated, their
popularity was enormous.