My tabby cat is very aggressive. We used to have a tabby cat at home. Because there are circles of patterns on its back that look like butterflies (the scientific name seems to be called classical patterns, while the general tabby cat has fishbone patterns), it is called the double-flying butterfly. The tabby cats in Guangdong are also divided into grades. The double-flying butterfly is considered a famous type of tabby cat and is also more expensive. It cost hundreds of dollars to buy it back in the 1980s. If you convert the price, the current British shorthair and American shorthair are about the same price.
The tabby cat was not bought for fun, of course, because there were mice in the house, so we needed to buy a cat to give away – in the old days, it was said that mice were spiritual, and when you wanted to kill mice, you should avoid saying the mouse’s name, otherwise the mouse would hide when it heard it. Bi De is another name for mice, because in the old days, there was a Zi Hua (a gambling game similar to the current lottery, with 36 flower numbers, and the winning number is 1 to 20) in Guangdong. The names of Zi Hua include characters (such as Zhang Fei and Guan Yu), and one of them is 36 animals, each of which has its own name. For example, Mao Lin is a bee, Tian Liang is an eel, and the name of the mouse No. 36 is Bi De.
Since it is a tool cat, it is inevitable that it is aggressive. When choosing a cat, the one with fighting power will be specially selected. Now Persian cats, British shorthairs, etc., can play with canaries if they are well trained, and have completely lost their hunting nature. You can’t even think about it with a tabby cat. It is not necessary to say that it is good at catching mice. If the mice are gone, even cockroaches will never be spared. When there is a cat, basically all the cockroaches in the house are killed.
Of course, being too fond of hunting has its disadvantages. In my family, there have been several cases where the cat opened the cage to eat the parrots and sparrows we bought. No matter how high we hung the cage and how well we locked the cage door, the cat still had a way to climb up, put its claws through the cage, catch the bird to death, and pull it out to eat. Anyway, if you have a cat at home, don’t keep birds. It’s impossible to coexist.
The funniest thing is that one day I found the bones of a whole big black carp (grass carp) under my bed at home. According to the size, the fish should be no less than 3 pounds. It’s hard for this cat to have the ability to bring such a big fish back. I don’t know whose house it stole it from. It dragged it under the bed and ate it clean, leaving only fish scales and fish bones on the ground.
But apart from the hunting nature engraved deep in the genes, other things can be taught. At the beginning, my brother and I liked to take the cat to bed to play, and formed the habit of the cat to love bed. As a result, one day when I came home, I found a pool of cat urine on the bed. This was embarrassing. So my dad grabbed the cat and pressed its head down hard on the urine stain on the bed. He did this for more than ten times, cursing as he pressed, “I told you not to pee on the bed! I told you not to pee on the bed!” Since then, Lihua has never gone to bed again, and has never peed on the bed. It can be seen that Lihua has a strong understanding ability.
So in the end, this is not a pet, it is a killer (laughs)
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