Cats Author:Angela Sayer The cat possesses remarkable powers of survival and it is an extremely skilled and patient hunter. Its special retractile claws and sharp dentition provide it with lethal weapons and make it a perfect carnivore. It is as cautious as it is courageous and, despite more than three thousand years of domestication, the cat retains, just b... more »elow the surface, the innate reactions and savage instincts of its ancestor miacis, which evolved during the age of the dinosaurs.« less