Dogs have been companions to humans for some 14,000 years, and the relationship
probably began because dogs could be trained to help humans hunt for food. Cats, inn
contrast, have been paired with humans for only one third of that time. Once cats
teamed up with humans, though, they played a role very different from that of dogs.
In the past, and until fairly recently, dogs were usually considered the servants of
humans. They performed as guards, guides, and protectors in activities ranging from
hunting to farming. However, cats couldn't be trained to do anything they didn't
want to do, which is perhaps why they were worshiped as gods in some societies..
The cat was held in such high esteem by the Egyptians, for instance, that there were
laws protecting them from injury or death. While many early cultures treated dogs
with affection- the Greyhound, for instance, appears in many Egyptian tomb
carvings, there is little evidence that they ever achieved the status of the deity.
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