Mom: “I loved my son with all of my heart, but you could keep his dogs. One dog? Sure. Two maybe. But 142? That’s crazy. And I’m not taking care of those filthy animals now that he’s gone. You can bury them with my son.”
Slave: “Yes, Your Highness. As you wish.”
Mostly, Egyptians were the Crazy Cat People of the ancient world, thousands of cat mummies (or fake ones, sometimes with a single body part of a cat) have been found in burials.