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PETS IN THE PAST
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PREHISTORY • Towards 9.000 BC (the beginning of the Neolithic, with
sedentary), humans started to use dogs to hunt and to protect them from the other animals.
• Later, they were considered pets, in the sense of company.
• The first dogs were wolves that the humans domesticated.
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CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY [EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA]
• In Ancient Mesopotamia (6000 BC-539 BC), they celebrated a party dedicated to the dogs.
• In Ancient Egypt (3150 BC-31BC) a usual pet of the Pharaohs was the lion, which was used in the war too.
• In the reliefs despicting the famous battle of Kadesh (1274 BC), the Egypt army fought with the Hittites, Pharaoph Ramsés II appeared fighting with his lion.
• Other pets (most popular for the poor people) were cats, monkeys, and dogs. They were buried with their owners.
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CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY [GREECE]
• The favorite pet in Greece (1200 aC-146 aC) was the dog.
• Aristotle said: «There are seven races and the most popular is the Molsser, a Mesopotian kind of dog».
• In the Odyssey, Homer tells the story of Argos, Odysseus’s dog, who waited for his owner for twenty years and he died when he saw his owner returning home.
• Cats were the other great pets of Greece. They were brought from Egypt.
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CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY [Rome I]
• In Ancient Rome (753 BC- 476 BC), the most common pets were dogs, because they guarded the houses. A lot of mosaics were found with this warning: «Cave Canem» (beware the dog!)
• In the Roman houses, there were cats, pigeons, ducks, crows and birds in general.
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CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY [ROME II]Eccentricities of Roman characters
• Caesar (100 BC-44 BC) had a giraffe, who brought from Alexandria and he showed to the Romans the animal (the people never saw it!).
• Calígula (12 AD – 41AD) had got a horse called Incitatus. Calígula worshipped the horse like a god. He ate with it and he covered the horse with jewellery.
• Nerón (37 AD- 68 AD) had a wild panther called Febea. Febea moved free during the dinners.
• The poet Virgil (70 BC- 19 BC), author of the Aeneid, sent out a very expensive mausoleum for a fly to keep his land.
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MIDDLE AGE (476 - 1492)• The poor people had all types of farm animals: pigs,
sheep, horses… they lived in the same house together and there were many problems with hygiene.
• People didn’t have any cats, because they thought were the symbol of the devil.
• Rich people loved falcons, because these animals helped them to hunt.
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MODERN AGE (1492 - 1789)• Collecting exotic animals was a
sign of power in the Modern Age. They used the wildest animals to fight and they showed them to the people the most exotic...
• Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) had an elephant.
• The English Tudor dynasty (1485 - 1603) loved the monkeys and the sons of one monkey belong to the sons of the king (in the image, Catalina de Aragón, the first wife of Edward VI).
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CONTEMPORARY AGE (1789-…)• In the Contemporary Age, pets have become more
numerous and diverse. • Today, the most fashionable animals are the exotic
ones: pigs, alligators, tigers, squirrels, snakes and kangaroos.
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SOME HISTORICAL CURIOSITES (contemporary age)
• Marquis de Lafayette, one important politician and French military (1757-1834), had an alligator. When he visited the White House, he put the alligator in the bath.
• The son of the president of the USA had two alligators and they lived in the garden.