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farm cat
The farm cat or barn cat is a domestic cat, usually of mixed breed, that lives primarily out-of-doors, in a feral or semi-feral condition on agricultural properties, usually sheltering in outbuildings. They eat assorted vermin such as rodents and other small animals that live in or around outbuildings and farm fields. The need for the farm cat may have been the original reason cats were domesticated: to keep rodents from consuming or contaminating grain crops stored for later human consumption. They are still commonly kept for the purpose of catching undesired vermin found on farms and ranches, which would otherwise eat or contaminate crops, especially grain or feed stocks.
==History==
Archeological evidence suggests that the earliest domestication of cats occurred about 7500 BC and was motivated by the human need to safeguard grain stores from rodent pests.〔() "The Near Eastern Origin of Cat Domestication", Driscoll, et al., Science 27 July 2007, Vol. 317. no. 5837, pp. 519 - 523, quoting, J. A. Clutton-Brock, Natural History of Domesticated Mammals (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1999).〕
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