When do cats become pets?

Human roughly divided into two types: the cat and the cat does not have the nature of people. Cat's heart is deeply engraved in the soul of human being, and a long. For centuries, cats to humans is very important. Cat as a symbol of good fortune, by the awe and love of humanity, but also was seen as the embodiment of the devil, and by a large number of massacres. When cats become pets?
About 3000 BC in ancient Egypt, after the first domestication of cats was used to control rats, and gradually become a popular family companion, and even as gods. Egyptians of such a flexible, robust, sophisticated, able to buy the hunter kill the mouse, very impressed, and began to question them as sacred objects. Egyptian God called them home, "Ming meow" (MIW). When the "meow Ming" dead, the owner of mourning to be held in a cat who painted anti-corrosion oil, placed in a coffin and sent to Pasteur temple. A large number of dead to the ancient Egyptians made mummies of cats, scientists studying the mummy cat, showing that domestic cats originated from African wild cats. Ancient times, the cat in the Far East have also been domesticated, but later than in Egypt. Some authoritative source that China in 2000 BC, when the cat started, while others have the authority of that evening to China 400 years before the beginning of the year and cats.
Cats reached Italy from Egypt, and later gradually spread to Europe as a whole, in many countries to win the "admirer." However, the Middle Ages, the cat has been bad luck. Church of Christ and the pagan idols do not want to be associated, launched a campaign of persecution of the cat. Perhaps as a result of a cat with incredible agility, superstitious people believe that witches can be deformed to a cat. This view led to the unfortunate consequences of a cat - is often burned to death Christians, because they believe that the cat is the devil in disguise. However, when cats have been known to re-use when the cats do not welcome the gradual disappearance of the phenomenon. To the 18th century, the family cat has once again become common in the animal. In the 19th century, the cat has been very common. To the late 19th century, at the first cat exhibition, exhibition of purebred cats early.