It's hard to say what's a stripped primitive precursor and what's just a different thing that looks similar: are we looking at a kitten and a housecat, or a housecat and a tiger? Or are we comparing a cheetah and a wolf? Conservative Christian philosophers usually come down on the cat & tiger side; materialist evolutionary philosophers on the kitten and cat. Truth of the matter is no-one knows, though.

Actually, Barbara Hambly actually did cat magic once, in Dog Wizard, I think it was. But it was a throw-away. Hmmm.