Cats were really first domesticated in the Near East around 7500 BC. It was long thought that cat domestication began in ancient Egypt, where cats were venerated from around 3100 BC in the past. As of 2021, there were an estimated 220 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the whole world. As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second-most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned and around 42 million households own at least one so-called cat animal. In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cat animals as of 2020.
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