After all, our ancestors have long believed that cats are not just cute pets, but also home protectors.
Dogs can be effective at scaring away intruders, but cats perform a much more important task - protection of the home from another kind of intruder.
Think back to a time when you noticed your cat or feline staring intently at an imaginary empty space, or spending a suspicious amount of time close to one particular spot in the house.
Ancient philosophers and scientists believed that cats are sensitive to concentrated amounts of negative energy and are trying to protect you and your home from possible evil spirits and ghosts.
That's because cats have a uniquely powerful aura, also known as astral power, that is designed to repel negative energy.
This negative energy may have been left over from when you didn't live in your current home, or it may have come from outside of it.
The cat serves as the last line of defence for you and your loved ones, trying to catch the evil spirit in its powerful energy field and push it out of the house, esotericists say.
Do not disturb your cat if you notice that it is purposefully wandering around your house.
Cats can discern the intentions of astral entities and can follow the source of negative energy in an attempt to destroy it.
Hence, for example, our custom of letting the cat into the house first before crossing its threshold ourselves.
In this way, we seem to be urging the cat to cleanse our new home of excess and negative energy left over from the previous residents.
As we wrote earlier: Employees of the company could not understand where their cat was bringing in money from