★ A global history of cat culture for the era of "cloud cat petting," written by a historian and social anthropologist.
★ Cute comic strips illustrated by popular Russian online artist Lotur Norn, delivering "cuteness overload" every few pages. Includes a shiny laminated cat bookmark.
★ The book is divided into just two chapters – "The Cat Notices Humans" and "The Human Notices the Cat" – offering a clear timeline. Get the lowdown on cats' multiple roles in mythology, agriculture, and art without wading through heavy historical texts.
★ As the "cat economy" continues to dominate hot searches, this book provides light knowledge for the dual needs of "cat petting + knowledge," suitable for readers from students to "silver-haired poop-scoopers".

Cats have long since annexed both human hearts and living rooms. Open the internet, and it's flooded with their memes and adorable short clips of their antics. Statistics show that one in every three people voluntarily serves as a poop-scooper for a certain tailed-and-whiskered master. But how did this happen? This book tells the story of how cats "domesticated" humans and left their paw prints on undried tiles, medieval parchment, and the folk tales of various nations.
Although cats have long since annexed human hearts and living rooms, the phrase "it has always been so" doesn't hold. In different eras and regions, cats have been gods, demons, messengers from heaven, and villains from the underworld, synonymous with cunning and cleverness. From ancient times to the present, from ancient Egyptian murals to today's memes – historian and social anthropologist Anna Grebennikova will take you on a journey tailing the cat master, watching how it gradually approached that "strange hairless monkey," seeing which animals competed with it for the role, and which real or divine cats were written into memory and still go viral today.
The book is illustrated by online artist Lotur Norn with cute comic strips ready to deliver "cuteness overload." It also comes with an exclusive shiny laminated bookmark – of course, featuring a cat.

**Anna Grebennikova**
Historian, social anthropologist, holds a Master's in History from Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, and a science journalist.