All cats belong to the family Felidae. The Felidae family consists of four groups; Panthera ? the large or greater or big cats; Acinonyx ? the cheetahs; Felis ? the small or lesser cats; and (now extinct) Smilodon ? the gorgeous sabre-toothed tigers.

Domestic cats or ghar ki billi as they are referred to are found wherever there are people to love them! Evidence suggests that humans and cats lived together 8,000 years ago, but it was the ancient Egyptians who began domesticating them about 4,000 years ago.

Today domestic cats come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours as we have bred them for specific traits, for example the long fur and shorter snout of the Persian cat in the photograph.