Jerry Moore

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223 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Feb

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Something You Should Know · The Human Need to Matter & The Enduring Appeal of Cats · 5 Jan 2026 podcast

And she was frequently envisioned as being a cat.

And large numbers of

you know, real cats, were mummified and offered in her honor and buried in massive cemeteries on the banks of the Nile.

So massive, in fact, that some of those cemeteries were looted

in the late 1800s, and the mummified animals that were there, cats and other animals, were shipped to England to be used as organic fertilizer.

Oh, I would put, you know, every time an archaeologist say, oh, it only occurred at this time, there's going to be another site that's found that's slightly older.

But I would say that somewhere in between, you know, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago,

In the Near East, we certainly had interactions with cats.

The estimates for the United States, feral cats in the United States, it's estimated between 50 to 70 million feral cats in the United States.

Yeah.

It's an enormous number.

And in other places in the world, for example, just last year, New Zealand was in the news because they organized a nationwide hunting event.

most of them are domesticated cats that get abandoned or have you know been allowed to roam and then their their owners lost track of them so that's that's mostly what what it is and it and it's i want to distinguish when i'm talking about feral cats i'm not talking about um wild cat species like bobcats or mountain lions or things like that when i talk about feral cats i mean these kind of house cats gone wild

Now they do.

They do.

They have impacts on bird populations, rodent populations, which most of the time we approve of that.

But no, they have those skills.

You know, I don't know very much about bobcats as such.

I've seen them.

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