Essay on cats in Urdu

This is an essay on cats in Urdu. There are two version (a) the first is a personal translation from English to Urdu by Ahsan ul Haq in Pakistan. The version is in the form of four images (b) a translation to Urdu by Google Translate (thanks but it is not that good apparently!). Urdu is the official language of Pakistan (but only a 1st language for 7% of citizens) and it is spoken in the North West and East of India and in the mid-southeast of India (in 6 states). As a rough guesstimate, 160m people speak it. The picture below is of Ahsan and his daughter in Pakistan. They save the lives of feral cats.

Below is a Google Translation:

This is the English version:

All cats are carnivorous furry mammals. There are domestic cats, stray cats and wild cats. Some cats are half wild cats and half domestic cats. These are called hybrids. They are created by cat breeders. Sometimes wild cat hybrids happen in the wild too.

In the West, cats and dog are equally popular. There may be slightly more cats than dogs in America. The cat is becoming more popular because people are becoming more busy and people believe that cats are easier to look after. In other countries the dog is more popular as people think it is more useful. Dogs can protect people for instance.

Almost all domestic cats are not part of a cat breed. These are called random bred cats. A small proportion of housecats are purebred. These are pedigree cats. They have been created by cat breeders. They are sold to people for around $500 in the West. Cats that are not purebred are often free.

There are many unwanted cats in North America and in Europe. A lot of cat owners are not sure how much it will cost to look after a cat before they look after a cat. Some of them give up their cat when they find out the cost. It can cost around $15,000 over 15 years to look after a cat.

There are over 100 different cat breeds. The most common type of cat coat is the brown tabby. This is because the domestic cat comes from the North African wildcat. The first domestic cats in the world were tame African wildcats. People found out that small, tame wildcats were good at keeping rodents and snakes away. The cats found out that there was plenty of food where there were people. This is how the first domestic cats came to be. Both cat and person benefited from the friendship.

There are 36 wild cat species. The heaviest wild cat is the Siberian tiger living in the Far East of Russia. The lightest is the rusty-spotted cat living in India and Sri Lanka. All wild cats need to be protected by people, from people. This is because there are more and more people and therefore less and less space for wild cats. Also wild cats get in the way of business so they are killed. Some businesses make money from wild cats. For example, tiger body parts are eaten in some parts of Asia because the people believe it makes them stronger and better. Also the domestic cat is eaten in Vietnam and China. Some people in these countries believe that cat meat cures arthritis.

It is believed that there are about 300,000 – 500,000 domestic and feral cats in the world (update: these figures are incorrect – see below). We are not sure. In most parts of the world cat owners let their cat go outside. These cats live both in the person’s home and outside the home. In some places there are less cats that live with a person and more cats who are shared between people. These are community cats and they often live outside. Feral cats are wild and they behave like wild cats.

Whether a cat becomes a feral cat or a domestic cat depends on what happens in the first 8 weeks of the cat’s life. All newborn domestic cats need to be around people and pets to get used to them otherwise they become wild cats or what we call feral cats.

All cats have great senses. They need them to survive and to catch prey. The favorite prey of the domestic and stray cat is the rodent, usually the mouse or rat. The favorite prey of the wild cats depends on the species of wild cat and where they are. The wild cats are normally very flexible on the prey they catch. They have to be to survive in a difficult world.

Note: 300,000 to 500,000 should read: 300 million and 500 million. Sorry.