The domestic housecat is a familier history.  In ancient Egypt the cat was
domesticated to control the pest population of grain-eating rodents.  The
Cult of Bast is the single clearest, best example of the connection between
religion and symbiosis.  It is a text-book case.  Paleolithic man wouldn't
be likely to have pet cats, as he wouldn't have a mouse problem.  Mice are
only problems in argiculutrial societies that feed people mousefood.  To
think that the domestication of the cat has anything to do with a conspiracy
of catfood manufacturers is to overlook something as big as the Great
Pyramid.