The domestic cats today are an evolutionary adaptation of the African wild cats, what does with that these possess several characteristics in common with the great wild felines, as the habit of walking using their cushions quietly plant, the technical assaults of hunt and them presence of retractable nails. However, crossings among different specimens turned them smaller and less aggressive, assisting like this to the objective of creating an small animal, capable to hunt rodents and to live in the same houses that the men.
His older one ancestral known it is Miacis, mammal that lived there are about 40 million years and it possessed the habit of walking on the branches of the trees. The evolution of that animal created Dinictis, animal that already possessed most of the present characteristics in the current felines.
The sub-family Felinae, that contains the domestic cats, appeared there are about 12 million years, expanding the starting from Africa until reaching the lands where now it is Egypt. Besides, they were the Egyptians the first people to adopt the cats as work animals and estimate.
When the populations stopped being nomadic, the people’s life started to depend substantially of the agriculture. It was on that moment that the cats came to do part of the daily of the human being. For possessing a fort instinct hunter, those animals exercised an important function in the society: to end with the mice that invaded the silos of cereals and other places where the foods were stored.
However, it didn’t delay so that some animals were transported secretly for other territories, doing with that the cats ended up increasing his inclusion area. When they arrived in old Persia, they also passed to be worshipped. There was the faith that when you mistreated a black cat, you took the risk of being mistreating a spirit friend, especially created to do company to the man during his passage in the Earth. This way, when harming a cat, the man would be reaching himself.
In the course of time the cats passed to be considered fine animals, winning a good position of the social point of view. They were used besides as accessories in social events for the ladies. In that time the cat began to be modified for exhibitions, beginning like this the creation of pure races, with pedigree. One of the first races created for that purpose was the Persian, that it was known after his introduction in the European continent, accomplished by the Italian traveler Pietro Della Valle.
The great first exhibition of cats happened in 1871, in London. To leave of that moment, the interest in exposing cats developed inside of standard rights spread for the whole Europe.
Nowadays, the cats are one of the most popular mascots all over the world, serving the man as a good company animal and they still continue being used by farmers and navigators of several countries, as a cheap middle of controlling the population certain rodents. Due to the fact of his domestication to be relatively recent, when necessary, they easily can convert to the wild life, starting to live in wild atmospheres, where they form small colonies and they hunt together.
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From his origin the dog is submitted to the natural selection, through the adaptation to the environment and the artificial selection, through the human beings.
In the beginning of the domestication, the human beings conserved those encourage less aggressive and less withdrawn, probably selecting those with morphologic characteristics that differed of the wild specimen, fact that it might have made possible the great morphologic variety found in the domestic dogs nowadays.
The domestic dog has the wolf as ancestral. Specimen of that species were, along the time, being selected for several aptitudes, being today, an animal with larger potential of social cognition that the wild wolves, standing out even of great primates in certain tasks that depend on the reading of human corporal signs.
The first associations between men and dogs were found in China and they remount there are 150.000 years. There are about 10.000 years, when leaving of being nomadic and hunter to be producing and creator of his food, the man needed to tame the ancestral of the dog to aid him in the hunt and, later, in the care of the cattle.
The fixation of the racial patterns only appeared starting from the Century XVI for the hunt dogs and it continued along the centuries.
The races are fruit of natural selection, artificial selection and of the crossing among animals of different patterns. The recognition of the races depends on the people’s organization that create the dogs in associations or clubs, us which their members establish morphologic patterns and behaviors.
Among animals of the same race different lineages can exist, that they are developed by the creators starting from the selection.
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Many dangers exist at house can hurt the animal. The curiosity and the exploration sense can do with that they ingest poisonous products:
1 – medicines – as much human as veterinarian, when ingested and in great amount they can take the death the animal.
2 – human food – some foods are poisonous for the animals.
3 – plants – many of the plants that it is had home are poisonous.
4 – rodenticides and insecticides – highly poisonous and they can take to death quickly.
5 – products of cleaning – many of those products are poisonous, so much for the animals as for the human beings. To avoid accidents keep them out of the reach and very well covered.
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The domestic cat is very popular as pet. Occupying the top of the alimentary chair is a natural predator of several animals as rodents, birds and geckos.
The first association with the humans that news is had happened there are about 9500 years, but the domestication is much older.
They are an evolutionary adaptation of the wild cats. Crossings among different specimens turned them smaller and less aggressive to the humans. The cats were domesticated firstly in Middle East.
When the populations stopped being nomadic, the people’s life started to depend on the agriculture. The production and storage of cereals, however, it ended for attracting rodents. On that moment the cats started to be part of the daily of the human being.
Registrations found in Egypt, as engravings and statures of cats, they indicate that the relationship of that animal with the Egyptians dates of at least 5000 years. Their love for the cats was so big that there were laws that prohibited that the cats were exported.
Nowadays, the cats are animal quite popular, serving the man as a good company animal and they still continue being used by farmers.
34 races of cats exist.
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It should be considered that the cats are exposed to a great variety of potential toxins, including agents as several as prescription drugs, chemical substances, domestic products and plants.
The exhibition is not limited to the orally, but it can also involve inhalation and administration percutaneous or parenteral.
Most of the cases of feline intoxication is accidental, instead of having intentional nature or iatrogenic.
One of the main responsible factors for the susceptibility of the felines to several poisonous compositions links his limited capacity to metabolize directly and composed such unpoison, particularly in comparison with other species as the dogs.
The poisoning with raticides is a common phenomenon in cats, with the exhibition of the animals the a variety of means, including negligent preparation of baits and secondary poisoning for the ingestion of rodents.
The insecticides represent source common of poisoning for cats. The intoxication is always followed to the application or the organophosphorate ingestion or carbamate used as insecticides.
The cats can also be intoxicated with, herbicides, metals (lead, arsenic, mercury), domestic products, medicinal products (salicylate, etc), dietary products (vitamin A).
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The domestic cats today are an evolutionary adaptation of the African wild cats, what does with that these possess several characteristics in common with the great wild felines, as the habit of walking using their cushions quietly plant, the technical assaults of hunt and them presence of retractable nails. However, crossings among different specimens turned them smaller and less aggressive, assisting like this to the objective of creating an small animal, capable to hunt rodents and to live in the same houses that the men. 
