According to a new report, scientists have been doing a research to understand the reason for the transformation of wild felines into the tame pets. They have been analyzing the cat-and-mouse game that was played out in a Chinese village some 5,300 years ago.

Scientists believe that it was only the cat's appetite that made it down on the path of domestication. It has been reported that grains stored by farmers were like a magnets for rodents. And it was the rodents, who were like magnets for a cat to enter villages to hunt. Researchers revealed that with the passage of time, cats became adapted to village life and became tamer around their human hosts.

So, this was the real story for the wild cats entering into domestic life. But, there is still a mystery as how the wild cats long ago were transformed and became ancestors of today's house cats. Researchers found the solution to this mystery that this happened in the Middle East, rather than China.

But, there was other confusion as they found the bones from the Chinese village back up the idea that felines took on the pest-control job in ancient times. This research has been published online Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Fiona Marshall, researcher of Washington University in St. Louis.