We have moved on quite a bit from simply knowing that our domestic cats are descended from F s Lybica. We now know that F s Tristami which is still found in Israel for example also contributed to the development of domestic cats. Whether the Turkish Angora , Persian, or British SH etc all can be traced back to the same cats which inhabited the fertile crescent. The connection between cat domesticated and crop growing is very clear as people transitioned from being hunter gatherers to living in a fixed area and growing crops which needed to be protected from rodents. It is unlikely that this occurred in Egypt as the first evidence of cat domestication so far is in Cyprus at Shillourokambos which pre-date the Egyptian civilisation by thousands of years. The findings in Cyprus are linked to settlers from Anatolia by the specific kind of obsidian tools buried with them. It is easy to assume that the first felid domestication must have taken place in Egypt because of the assumption that the African Wildcat only lived in that area and from the Egyptian art, but the same wildcats would have had no difficulty in living along the great stretch of fertile land reaching as far as Turkey. In actual fact Egypt was not a particularly good candidate for the site of cat domestication , as the corn crop called Einkorn which enabled the agricultural revolution to take place was not found in Egypt. The movement of domesticated cats was more likely to have been north to south from Turkey to Egypt. All cats were originally SH’d so it should not come as a surprise to see a SH’d cat which is genetically a Turkish Angora-Turkish Van mix. There are also LH’d spotted cats in the same colony that my 2 SH’d spotted cats came from which means they must be from the same extended family. The spotted coat would have survived over millennia as it confers the best camouflage for concealment and hunting day and night. I still find it thrilling to see cats with this original wild coat.