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It all began when my investigative assistant, Tammy the Greyhound, offered to help me trace my lineage.

I thought my lineage began and ended at the trash bin where my brother and I were discovered as tiny kittens. But it turns out that we are all descended from Ancient Egyptian cats. Our ancestors started moving into people's homes there about 4,000 years ago, and all today's cats come from there.

Tammy's ancestors had already moved in to people's houses by that time. There are greyhound pictures in Egypt going back 5,000 years. So it's possible my ancestors and her ancestors knew each other.

The Ancient Egyptians made cat jewelry and cat statues, and they had a Great Cat Goddess and lots of nice local cat goddesses, too.

They took their cats with them when they traveled (which is how cats ended up all over the world), and it seems like the cat goddesses went with them, too.

So it stands to reason that if
the TLC Cat Club here at Best Friends is the modern version of Kitty Heaven (which everyone who comes here says it is), then here is where the Great Cat Goddess has to be hanging out these days.

The only question is: which of the six or seven hundred cats here is she? Tammy and I have been trying to find out.

Next: Checking out the most obvious possibilities