I’ve had two or three years of experience in raising cats! I think the owner’s personality and the way of raising will determine what the cat will turn out to be.
The first time, I raised a calico cat. I always adopted the free-range method. The feeding time wasn’t fixed throughout the day, and sometimes I only fed it one or two meals a day. When the cat made a mistake, I would gently tap its head to make it realize its fault. I wouldn’t let it get out of hand. So, later it evolved to catch mice by itself outside since it couldn’t get enough to eat at home; it would dig the soil to go to the toilet by itself; it was very obedient and would stay by your side for half a day when it had nothing to do; it was very smart and was proficient in every corner of the house, the entrances and exits, the paths, and climbing in through the window.
The second cat I raised, which is the current one, was probably a lost pet cat from someone else’s home. It was adopted by my neighbor and now is familiar with me. Pet cats usually have several characteristics: they are stupid, delicate, disobedient, and lazy.
Stupid: It jumped onto the third-floor window of someone else’s house and couldn’t get down along the stairs. Instead, it kept climbing up until it reached the top-floor window, meowing loudly, waiting for me to rescue it. “Can’t you just come down along the stairs by yourself?”
Disobedient: It wouldn’t stay by my side for long. After five minutes, it would leave. I wanted to train it to keep me company, but it still turned out like this. It seldom responded when I called its name, unless I was feeding it; when I wanted it to come back, it just ignored me.
Lazy: It could eat four or five meals a day, and each meal took it several minutes to finish. Less than four hours after feeding it, it would come over and meow loudly at me (the voice was so loud, as if it was giving orders).
This is the comparison. Cats raised by two different people can be very different. If you raise a cat like a pet, it will gradually lose its natural abilities and become very lazy.
Don’t raise a cat as if it were your son or an ancestor. Raise it as an ordinary friend or a servant!
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