"Scientists get reading on tale of the cat "

By David Brown, WASHINGTON POST, via San Antonio EXPRESS - NEWS, Friday, June 29, 2007.

"WASHINGTON -- Your hunch is correct.

"Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around.

"Don't take this feline diffidence personally.

"It runs in the family.

"And it goes back about 12,000 years.

"Also, the story begins in the Fertile Crescent, not Egypt as commonly believed.

"Those are among the conclusions of a genetic study of the origins of the domestic cat, being published today in the journal Science."