Statistically, worldwide it is more than half a million vagrant cats. Some compassionate people care for needs of these animals, regularly feeding up them while others are solved on cardinal steps, trying to tame street cats.
Whether it is worth taming a street cat?
To tame a street cat to life in the house not and it is easy! It bears in itself a certain danger. Here it is necessary to understand accurately what cat is tamed by the person: the house, recently thrown out by the owner, or street, lived on freedom all the youth.The fact is that the first without special work will take root on the new place and will fall in love with the new owner, but as for exclusively street cat, to tame her – difficult business! Anyway, the decision remains for the one who decided to take so cardinal step.
What to make to tame a street cat?Everything depends on that how adult animal is the street cat. For example, having picked up a kitten aged up to 10 weeks, it is possible to tame him literally in one week. Worse the situation is with an adult individual: accustoming to the person can borrow such cat of several months. Sometimes such cats are not tamed at all! Anyway, to tame a wild street animal, it will be necessary to stock up with enormous patience. Nourishing lunch. Of course, its feeding will be the very first step in domestication of a wild cat from the street. It is not necessary to overfeed the animal who got used to be malnourished at liberty. It will be best of all to divide food into three hourly receptions. Water procedures. A street cat it is necessary to wash up. Probably, you should not speak about what danger the fleas and other parasites living in her wool can bear. It is necessary to attend to water procedures as soon as possible. It should be noted what to wash up a vagrant cat – business not simple! You should not frighten an animal by excessive water procedures. The main thing in a washing of a street cat is to use special medicines and shampoos for removal of parasites from pets. As not to avoid cat's hand scratches, it is necessary to prepare brilliant green, alcohol, iodine or peroxide of hydrogen for disinfecting of the got wounds. Treatment. It is necessary to carry a street cat in a veterinary clinic for introduction to it of antivermicular medicines. The doctor will examine an animal, will define his state, will detect the diseases which it caught at liberty, and will advise the corresponding treatment. Taming a street cat, it is necessary to be ready to the fact that it is necessary to spend for her treatment fairly. Moral preparation. It is necessary to understand that once vagrant animal should live in the conditions which are absolutely limited for it, to get used to new rules. Unfortunately, in most cases it does not yield any positive results. Anyway, it is necessary to be morally ready to the fact that the cat will begin to hide in house corners, and at the sight of the person approaching her will begin to behave aggressively. It also is clear: street animals practically always keep the wild habits and habits. Their hunting instinct is developed very much. Moreover, they have an increased desire to reproduction. It needs to be considered too. It is impossible to place a cat in a cage or other closed space! She can take it for a trap, then it will be already precisely impossible to tame her. It is not necessary to react negatively to aggression of an animal, it cannot so quickly begin to trust the person. To accustom a wild cat to a toilet, to accurate feeding and to good manners follows gradually. In the first days of life of a street cat on the new place you should not try to stroke it, it is better to show the arrangement by a tender voice.
What to do if the cat is not tamed?
If nothing turns out, then the cat should be set free. It is not necessary to be upset strongly as all this a cat from the street! On the contrary, it is necessary to be glad to what at liberty became now on one cured and well-groomed pet it is more.