Cats in the UAE

One of the first things I noticed when I first came to the UAE were the large number of cats. I couldn't walk past a bin without one of them getting startled and jumping out at me.

Today, the AP ran a story explaining why.

(The wire story appeared in several newspapers, but I selected the IHT pretty much at random.)

Basically, scientists using DNA have shown that the first cats came from here, and, apparently, a lot of them never left.