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Long long ago, the Jade Emperor（玉皇大帝） organized an animal race. The first 12 animals to win could get a in the Chinese Zodiac（十二生肖）, and have a year named after them.
The cat and the mouse both the ox（公牛） to wake them early on the day of the race. That day, the ox tried to wake them, but without So the kind ox carried them on back and started running when the race began. The mouse wok e up just the ox was going across the last river. He knew that he could beat the cat. So he pushed the cat off the ox's back. When the ox reached the other side of the river, the mouse jumped off and ran to the finishing line, just the ox. The tiger came .
So the 12-year-cycle（循环） begins with the mouse. The ox comes after him. The tiger the ox. The rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster（公鸡）, dog and pig come after them. The cat was to finish the race, almost dying in the river, but she had no place in the zodiac.
So that's why cats kill mice. They can never what happened.
