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**Animals in Ancient Egypt Nowadays, people use animals as pets and a source of playing if you’re bored. **

· **Eagles and Falcons were also important because they are thought to be the sacred bird of the god Horus, a god ** **helping in the farm. ** · **Horses in ancient Egypt were only used as gifts from ruler to ruler. Donkeys were mainly used in farms and sometimes pulled chariots.**

·   **Ancient Egyptians also had pets. For example: Cats in ancient Egypt were used as pets when domesticated, and it was the head of the goddess Bast. ** · **Dogs were only used for hunting purposes because they didn’t know how to domesticate them. Jackals were represented as the god Anubis. The mystery was that in Ancient Egypt, if you called someone dog it was an  insult to them. Dogs were also mummified like other sacred animals. ** ·  **The Egyptians really feared the crocodiles because they were  represented by the god Sobek, which showed the power of the crocodiles. ** **·** **The Sacrab Beetle was sacred it was represented in art. This beetle represents the birth of the sun (when the sun comes out). As you can see egyptians mosty used them because they were sacred.** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-GB; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-GB; msolist: Ignore;">·
 * The Egyptian Asp is a member of the Cobra family. It grows up to eight feet long, and its poison is extremely poisonous. The Egyptian Asp is found in much of northern Africa and the Middle East. In Egypt, people thought that by Cleopatra having asp with her that she can suicide. The asp has a small, flat head. When it gets attacked it opens its neck like a hood to frighten them. The Egyptian asp has smooth, large scales that are gray to brown to black. Egyptian asps live in shrubs and hillsides.