{"id":864,"date":"2026-09-01T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:27:07","slug":"domestic-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/domestic-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"When Did Domestic Cats Take Over the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/when-did-domestic-cats-take-over-the-world-new-research-suggests-they-arrived-in-europe-and-china-centuries-later-than-we-thought-180987771\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-865 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-10.02.08-AM-300x200.png\" alt=\"Domestic Cats\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-10.02.08-AM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-10.02.08-AM-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-10.02.08-AM-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-10.02.08-AM-1536x1022.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-10.02.08-AM.png 1702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qwexcxewq CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;Two genetic analyses suggest that our feline friends reached China around 1,400 years ago via the Silk Road, and that they traveled from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/when-did-domestic-cats-take-over-the-world-new-research-suggests-they-arrived-in-europe-and-china-centuries-later-than-we-thought-180987771\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two genetic analyses suggest that our feline friends reached China around 1,400 years ago via the Silk Road, and that they traveled from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago&#8230;.\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}