In adult cats, as it is easy to guess, has already formed in nature. If you choose from the street of an adult wild cat, count on the fact that in a couple of weeks he will purr on your shoulder, somewhat premature. And yet everyone wants everyone to settle the calm, gentle pet without frightening aggression.
It is still precisely unclear what affects the nature of the cat: an environment or genetics. But there is a high probability that the offspring of a gentle, calm kitty will also become a good. Because it is so important to know whose baby you take to upbringing.
Early communication
Under it is understood by the communication of the kitten and man. But it is necessary to clearly understand that while the baby has not turned 8 weeks, it is impossible to separate him with mom. Eight weeks is the minimum time to start socialization. The cat at this time is already ready to assimilate the game, as well as hunting skills, it can learn good behavior during the grooming, is ready to assimilate the norms of behavior in the feline community. Finally, 8 weeks are the readiness of the kitten to feel confident. Those kids who have separated too early with their mother have excessive aggression. This cat make gentle very hard.
Early-separated kittens aggressive, bugles, incredulous, as well as emotionally unstable. Aggressiveness is the most difficult case, since it is a small chance of becoming a kind and downty of such a cat. But early separation with mom-kitty can be compensated!
Consider what you need to make the owner.
- Taking a kitten, create a setting around it that will not change every day. It is said that the dog gets used to the owner, and the cat is to the house. This is really a lot of truth. If in his room (more precisely, in the one where it happens most often), everything changes, if you constantly offer him new beds and toys, he will be confused. Then the confusion is replaced by alertness, and there it is not far from aggression.
- You can teach a cat to caress and considerableness, only if the person himself is calm, predictable for kitty, stable. No matter how cool, but without it it is impossible to achieve the desired one. It is necessary that the pet stopped you to be afraid to react well to your voice, knew your habits, etc.
This can be achieved precisely by early communication. Even if the crumb is completely different, it is only mastered in a new environment for him, become a friend to him. Let him associate you with your home to which he will focus, of course, a little more.
Can I punish a cat?
Make a pet obedient by physical punishment will not work. Unlike a dog that perceives the punishment as an incentive to obedience, the cat definitely does not accept this. For some reason, many believe that to teach a cat and the dog obedience can be alone and the same methods. But the cat and the dog also have only one common feature - they can live near the person, but they have huge differences. Because it is good to apply in relation to the dog, the cat will not tolerate.
- The cat is unable to perceive direct prohibitions. It must be negotiated with it, to offer an alternative. Just "it is impossible" she will not understand. When a little cat does something wrong, the mother is easily hurting his nose with his nose and urchit, purr, on his cat explains, what he guessed. Pick up this technique, if the kitten, for example, shits in the corners. But without screams and real beatings.
- A pet must have the right to choose, no matter how strange it sounds. It is not necessary to make it come to contact with guests, it will only aggravate behavior. It is not necessary in principle to be intrusive with a cat - watch it habits, notice the features, try to help where it is possible.
If the house has a senior cat, the role of the teacher, she can take over. And it works better than human upbringing. If the older cat is calm, affectionate, then her "student" has more chances to become the same.
Mental needs of animals
There is such a science - zoopsychology that studies animal behavior. Partly, she can answer the question of how to make the kitten become affectionate. If you delve into the topic deeper, you will learn a lot of interesting things about the mental needs of cats. For example, to serve a person, unlike a dog, a cat is unable, but it can live comfortably and convenient for himself next to a person she can. Close (conditionally close, sometimes quite remote) Cat contact is possible.
When they say that the cat is an animal that walks in itself, this does not mean that the mental need of a pet is loneliness. This means that the cat is needed a frame, the borders, then whom she will not help anyone.
Understanding this will allow you to get to know your pet better. No need to require it impossible: a hand-made cat will never really be true like a dog. But he can live next to you, observing some distance.
The period of early socialization is the age of cats from three to eight weeks. It is called sensitive (or sensitive). This is a good time to absorb social skills to form a character. At this age, you need to communicate with the kitten if you have such an opportunity. You give her toy - the cat gets used to her. You select a toy, it may not take it. This is very dependent on habits, from the established traditions of the creature. If you fed a cat in an unidentified time, if you have some people's houses, if you even rearranged furniture - a kitty can start nervous.
It is for this reason that the kitten who appeared at home should be calm from the fact that everything is stable, all toys, laying, brates, tray in place.
Secrets of upbringing
Felinologists say that a very affectionate cat is a fastened cat. You do not go about running a pet, but if your animal is starving, can't wait for it. In no case do not interfere in the food process, it is for kitty (and for any creature, in principle) the process is intimate. No need to feed the animal if you are crowded in the kitchen, noisy and loud.
- Very affectionate cat is an animal who pays a lot of attention. If you make a pet, if you are not ready to stroke it once again, do not bother with conversations with the cat, then do not wait for the response. Conduct, watch TV together, read the newspaper together - arrange yourself a breather with a cat.
- In order for the animal to be manual, it is impossible to carry it on his hands. Paradoxically, but it is. Little Cuties-Kitten want to stroke, take on the handles, but why? He does not need it, he loves the distance, and if he wants attention, he will definitely show it. Taking it once again in hand, you limit his movement - the cat will not like it. If you take a cat in your arms, so that she had the opportunity to go at any time: one hand under the chest, the second - strokes the animal.
- The animal is saved from the danger of scrapping to height. To plant a tree house is unlikely to succeed, but different houses and ladies are higher you can organize. In the case of stress, the cat will be closed there, feeling safe. So, stress will be less when he has a shelter.
- Games are more important than toys. In order for the kitten to be affectionate, not enough to buy bright springs to him and luminous balls. You need to play with him, toys, attract all households to a gaming contact with the baby. Playing together, you begin to understand each other, the most possible intimacy of a person and an animal is formed.
- Taba is your hands or legs like a toy. As soon as you start tapping with your fingers, pull the foot, the cat includes a hunter and attacks. Get ready for constant scratches. In this sense, it is impossible to call in a wild beast cat. But if in the heat of the game the cat still attacked you, do not pull your hand. Close, without any smile, look at the charm, you can even talk - he will let go of his hand itself. And probably there will be no more attack.
Breeders produced from the breeding of all cats with an unstable mental psyche, they do not want to risk a business, as if pragmatically sounded. If you took the cat from the street, and he has already seen how the mother drives away from him all the affiliation of passersby, it is almost impossible to cope with this wildness. Echoes will still be. Although the kids are easier - their "personality" is still formed, and you can affect the situation.
Before you take a kitten, watch his mom. Do not buy "Cat in a bag", knowing nothing about his mom, about the conditions where he lived the first weeks of life. At least, if not ready to cope in the future with its harsh temper.
Kitten tips in the house are in the following video.