That's why many cats have the 'socks' white

There's a good chance that your cat has white socks. They say the numbers reflect a higher incidence of cats with paws in the fur clear, compared to the wild felids. The reason is to be sought in the more than 10 thousand years of history that bind us to the species which has been domesticated since ancient times. This "familiarity" between specimens, in the long run, would have lead to a selection of the colours, the supports Leslie Lyons , an expert in feline genetics, the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, which also applies to some of the colors of the mantle.
Men and cats, the album of the tenderness makes me smile "When men became farmers are sedentary, they began to accumulate grain and waste," thus attracting the rodents, says dr. Lyons, to create the precondition the better for a society to be advantageous for both species. Today, wild cats (Felis silvestris), the progenitors of the pets, are found mainly in Africa and Eurasia. Not so far from us, saw that on the slopes of mount Etna has a population, however small, of these felines whose survival is still tied to the hunt. Among them, the camouflage has always played a decisive role: the cats "in the wild" that are better able to camouflage themselves, have a better chance to survive and reproduce. But not all of the F. silvestris are born with a mantle that merges with the surrounding environment. And here comes into play the man with his "tastes".