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| The Hopis and cats |
There were no house cats in America until the Europeans arrived, but even so the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest tell a tale about how cats came to live with people. A boy went out hunting in the winter and came upon some unfamiliar tracks in the snow.
He found the animal that made the tracks, and brought it home, keeping it confined for several days and feeding it rabbit meat. After that, the animal (a cat, of course) was thoroughly tamed and attached to the homes of human beings.
