How to make cats integrate into your life and make your life occupied by cats! When we first raise cats, as a novice, we often feel at a loss in the feeding of cats, ignoring some seemingly insignificant things, and letting the cats let themselves g...
How to make cats integrate into your life and make your life occupied by cats! When we first raise cats, as a novice, we often feel at a loss in the feeding of cats, ignoring some seemingly insignificant things, and letting the cats let themselves go. Some details in daily feeding may cause cats to develop bad habits or cannot allow cats to integrate into human life. In order not to make cats a burden, we should also do some training for cats as soon as possible. What are some common problems? For example, if a cat cannot be taken out, it panics as soon as it goes out, or if it pees and poops as soon as it gets in the car, and when it hears thunder or firecrackers, it will immediately hide under the table and chairs and tremble, or if you hear it humming all day, but you don’t know what it is calling, sometimes it keeps calling whenever it is whispering at a moment... and so on. These are the shortcomings of socialization. What socialization needs to do is to allow them to integrate into human society and live freely.
In Taiwan, many doctors require owners to go out after taking all the vaccinations, but the result is that all cats have problems with insufficient socialization. According to research in the United States, cats can go out as long as they get the first dose of vaccination, at about 60 days old, and they should take them out as much as possible to make them have correct social behaviors and do not wait until they get the vaccination before going out. The best period for socialization starts at three weeks of age at the cat. But it is never too late. If the best socialization period has been lost, don't worry. Although it can no longer be like a normal cat, it can still get closer to normal through the efforts of its owner. So, no matter how big it is, no matter whether it is not socialized or not, as long as the owner can spend some time doing a good job of socialization, every cat can live happily and freely without being unable to adapt or maladaptive all the time.
In order to socialize cats, we need to do some training for them. We often train cats to eat intentionally or unintentionally. Many cats will stand up straight to pick up things to eat. Or when it eats with people, it will sit obediently in a chair and so on. This is not a good phenomenon. Not long after, the owner will start to be troubled, because the kitten will always come to ask for food, not eat their own cat food, and will become more and more picky, and even ignore the guests in the room. Like a wild cat who has never been disciplined, jumping onto the dining table and finding what they like, making the cup and plate messy, making the owner very embarrassed. Therefore, we must teach cats’ rules for eating from a young age, including regular schedule, fixed location and quantity. Never give it food to eat humans. Cats must eat food specially designed and manufactured for cats. Human food is not completely suitable for its nutrition and growth. Before five months old, the three-week-old kitten was almost always playing when they were awake. This is also the cutest and most interesting time for them to play with, or just watch them play. After five months of age, its playfulness will decrease, but it still often wants to play. Children's toys, like LEGO games in combination toys, may not be suitable for it. Some are too small, some have sharp edges, and some may be bitten to pieces, and it will be troublesome if you accidentally swallow them.
For urination and defecation training, cats have a bad smell of urine and defecation, and wild cats often use soil to cover them after urination. Some cat owners choose sand or cat litter, which is better than sand in terms of cleaning and preventing parasites. Cats love to clean. If they have been trained since childhood, they will develop the good habit of urinating and defecating in a fixed location.
The socialization of cats starts from three weeks of age, and it is best to complete it before four months of age. In the entire socialization process, all contact must be positive, otherwise it will only make cats more afraid of contact and even cause more serious problems.
Many people think that cats are independent and can live at home without humans, or think that cats cannot be taken out like dogs and cats cannot be trained. The above ideas are actually wrong. The correct way is that owners should seek more active help from professional books or experts, learn the correct social methods, and make it no longer difficult to raise cats.
Of course, keeping pets requires handling the relationship with your neighbors. Many people are afraid of dogs and cats, or they feel that pets are quarreling, and they are ruthless all day long, disturbing normal life. This requires owners to train their pets on the one hand and adjust their mentality on the other hand. You should not hate your cats. You will hate others. This will only make the relationship even more rigid. Maybe one day the neighbors secretly drug your pet, but they should still prescribe it slowly. Generally, it is like this at the beginning, and you will gradually get used to it. I believe that as long as your pet is well-trained, no one has the reason to hate it.
In fact, friends who raise animals can think about why so many people hate animals? Because many owners do not give pets a chance to socialize, others only see how noisy, bad, and urinate everywhere. How can the owners expect the public to accept that cats take the bus or enter the park? Before asking others to respect your pet, think about how much you have done. Have you done the basic pet socialization?
