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Domestic Cat Care
Domestic Cat Care 100 Hours Certificate Course
Learn About Domestic Cat Care
Domestic Cat Care Online Course
This Domestic Cat Care online course will appeal to cat lovers who want to learn everything they can about their feline friends
From looking after their own cat and anyone who works with cats in a charitable or professional capacity. Written by industry relevant professionals and delivered online via distance learning, the course will give you a firm understanding of how cats should be looked after, to ensure their physical and psychological well-being.
Ever since what is thought to be the African Wildcat was domesticated by the Egyptians, to hunt and kill vermin around 4,000 years ago to protect crops from rats and mice, domestic cats have been very important to humans. In fact they were so successful in decimating the rodent population in Egypt, there was less disease and death, more food available for the poor and so a better quality of living for ordinary Egyptians, meaning there was probably less chance of a revolt. This led to cats being revered as expert hunters and associated with the goddesses Bast, Isis and Pasht, with anyone guilty of killing a cat immediately executed for their heinous crime. Later domesticated cats were also adopted to control vermin by three of the greatest empires of the ancient world, Greece, Rome and Persia and eventually they arrived in most other places in the world.
However the middle ages were not a good time to be a cat in Europe. They were rumored to be connected with witchcraft and so many thousands were slaughtered and this could have played a part in the spread of the Bubonic Plague, because there weren’t enough cats to kill all the rats, the main carrier of the disease. Prevalent throughout Europe, the Black Death is thought to have killed between 30 and 60% of the population, possibly as many as 100 million people.
In these more enlightened times, the symbiotic relationship that has developed between Homo Sapiens and Felis Catus over 4.000 years has become mostly one of mutual companionship.
Domestic Cat Care will be an invaluable qualification if you:
- are a cat owner or someone getting one for the first time
- work or want to work in a Cat Sanctuary or Rescue Center
- Work or want to work in a cat Kennel
- are a professional cat sitter, or want to start a business in cat sitting
- are or want to be a Veterinary Nurse
- work in taking care of cats in any amateur or professional capacity
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