I adopted a 6-month-old tabby cat boy. He has been neutered (neutered before estrus) and has all the vaccines. I also raised a female tabby cat in my childhood. Now I am going to pour cold water on you. The following problems are likely to occur in an ordinary tabby cat. If you really want to raise it, ask yourself whether you can accept these shortcomings/bad habits/characteristics. P.S.: Of course, there are tabby cats with angelic personalities. I only use the tabby cats I have met as examples.
It doesn’t like to eat all cat food, but is keen to search the trash can for leftovers that smell good, such as the roast duck bones I ate the night before. This is the “cheap” character of the tabby cat. It doesn’t like to eat good cat food such as go, and likes poisonous food with a lot of attractants in cheap food. It doesn’t eat fresh boiled egg yolks and puts them in the bowl. It doesn’t eat freeze-dried food either. It likes to eat canned food that smells good. Maybe, the tabby cat is used to wandering in the wild, and it is engraved in its genes and can’t be changed. It likes to search the garbage and eat garbage. I don’t like to go to clean places. I like to go wherever it’s dirty.
Every day I have to crawl to the shoe cabinet to hide and smell the stains on the soles of my shoes. I also like to visit the dusty corners under the bed. It’s so mean~ Of course, it often sleeps on the clean bay window, but it must go to these dirty places at least once a day. It likes to climb high places and use its 8-pound body to sweep down debris and break things. It doesn’t sleep on the bed, but it will suddenly jump on people. The 8-pound body hit me on the ground and I almost died suddenly. It jumps off the bed after it’s done, and it doesn’t change after repeated teachings. It is very good at reading people’s faces. It’s not close to people and won’t always follow you unless it’s hungry. If it does something wrong or knocks something down, it will stop and stare at you to see your next move. If you don’t take it seriously, it will continue. If you come over, it will run away. It is very smart and will test your bottom line. Then it will be crazy and can open the door. It can open the closet door. Since I can do this, I have to open it every day to enter, and then roll its fur on the clothes. Scratch my underwear.
Sometimes I yell its name when it peeks out from the closet door, it looks back at me and runs away, then continues a few minutes later. It knows you don’t like this, but it won’t listen to you. It doesn’t work to spray it with a small spray, it’s very stubborn. At night, it basically enters a highly excited hunting and patrolling state, jumping up and down, making trouble everywhere, and occasionally jumping on my chest to kill me. It seriously affects my sleep. During the day, I sleep in the sun by the bay window. Later, I listened to the advice of a friend on Zhihu and put it in solitary confinement when it starts to make noise at night, and let it bark. Later, it stopped barking on the second night and could sleep until dawn. I forgive it for not being affectionate, this is its personality, I won’t force it.
But it seems like a psychopath, with habits that I don’t understand. It cleverly calculates you and is stubborn. Talk about its advantages, otherwise it’s too miserable and won’t take the initiative to catch or bite people. It will be careful about how much it is to be fierce to it, and it will not bear grudges. At most, it will be afraid of you for a while, and then it will be fine. It is easy to hold it, and it will not struggle, like a quiet plush toy. But it will jump down within two minutes of holding it. It will rub against you when it is hungry and cry at you that it is cold. At night, it will crawl into the bed and ask to sleep with you (Damn it, you went to so many dirty places during the day, go away). Finally, here is its photo
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