An ox can technically be a cow or a bull too, in a pinch And in more ancient farming cultures that hadn't bred animals as extensively as in later years, the distinction between working animals and meat animals wasn't nearly so sharp
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Ah, okay, looking into this some more, some people do claim this IS because of the word -- it's a bilingual pun, an archaic word for "rabbit" in Chinese ("mao") sounds like the word for "cat" in Vietnamese ("mèo")
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There’s a story like that amongst NorCal Native Americans. Only it’s Coyote attempting to cheat his way to the front of a gifting line, due the next morning, and accidentally sleeping so late he was last.
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I thought it was because the rat screwed him over and gave him the wrong day or time or whatever?
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The Rat promised to wake him up on the day of the big meeting and then didn't
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The more boring explanation is that cats were only brought into China after they chose the zodiac animals.
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I don't know which side to choose here. I love cats, but my year is rat.
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I thought it was because Rat screwed Cat over while they were crossing a river. But I'm not as well versed in Chinese mythology that doesn't involve Sun Wukong as I'd like to be.
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I recall my mom reading a book to me and my brother when we were tiny about the calling of the zodiac animals being a race.
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The Rat and Cat decided to ride the Ox to the finish (as he was getting an early start), near the finish Rat shoved Cat into the river so as to finish first, and then all the other animals ran up filling out the roster while Cat struggled not to drown being swept away.
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