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Whether it’s true or not, some people say that Maine Coons are descended from those early 1600s cats.

But those pilgrim cats were newbies.

This had happened some 130 years earlier:

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No. Wait…this:

I don’t know the sources used for that video but did come across mention, while doing the cat eBooks, that a conquistador (late 1400s-1500s AD) had given a house cat to a friend — in what is now Mexico, I think but would have to look it up again).

Anyway, here is an in-depth paper on early cats in the Americas.

Some of the cats adopted by Native Americans might have had twentieth-century descendants, although that hasn’t been proved yet.

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For lagniappe:

Here is more information on the National Palace (and the cats).

Yes, there’s video (Spanish) of the late Zeus, stealing the show:

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Featured image: Olga Utchenko/Shutterstock

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