How cat hunting almost ends Europe
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Curiously, few acts of animal abuse or cruelty have generated such an impact on humanity as the extermination of cats in medieval Europe. At that time the Christian Church was a mistress and mistress of both political and social decisions of the old continent, so contradicting the orders issued from within was papal considered here and in most cases punished with death.
It is necessary to highlight that at that time 90% of the European population was part of the social sector dedicated to vassalage, they should pay tribute to a feudal lord (a protective master), this is in turn to the king and all to the Pope since it is considered Christ's envoy on earth. As you might notice, submission was required a virtue and rebellion or independence were usually punished for moving away from Christian behavior patterns. As with humans, these guidelines were transferred to the animal world, where dogs for their faithful behavior were accepted and cats for their individualistic character earned contempt for followers of Christ.
A century after this bull, a chilling event happened in the port of Genoa, in Italy. Two ships arrived from Persia apparently empty, when they tied him to the port they could see that the whole crew was made up of corpses, no survivors. The black plague came to Europe. It was something just dantesco, people collapsed in the streets and died there, no matter the social class, if you were vassal, prince, king or Pope, the black plague, well, actually bubonic fever (named for the bulges that developed in the armpits who suffered) came to the stalking and if it reached you I would not forgive your life.
The black plague or bubonic fever ended with 40% of the population of Europe (4 out of 10 people succumbed to this disease) and as a curious thing the transmitting agent that caused the spread of this disease was a small flea which were transported by rats Evidently before the ancestral practice of killing cats in the name of the Christian faith the population of rodents increased exponentially in a century since they had no natural enemies to hunt them.
There is certainly no evidence to show a relationship between the reduction of felines with the spread of black plague, however, from my point of view, cats would have been great allies of humans controlling the population of rats, transporters of the causative agent of This holocaust.
Internationalist Carlos D. Pérez Guerrero (@ waraira777)
