Let me answer this question for my little female Dragon Li cat. I really need to give a good critique of this headache – causing stinky cat of mine. The cat was temporarily adopted by its previous owner when it was 4 months old, and I took it from Panyu on March 2nd. It was about 5 months old when it arrived at my home.
First, the conclusion: In terms of health, it’s very easy to raise. However, in terms of getting along, it’s extremely difficult to raise, and the experience isn’t that pleasant.
In terms of health, although it had a stray experience, when I brought it home, apart from a bit of ear mites, it was very healthy. Its body was also very clean. It has a full – mark physical condition, is agile, has amazing jumping ability, and its stomach is very tough. It has never had soft stools, so I never have to worry about its health. Its appearance is also satisfactory.
But from the perspective of getting along, the Dragon Li cat is very wild. It will bite you while you’re petting it, and it often pounces on you from behind and chases you to bite. These problems occur frequently. I feed it Orijen and Ziwi Peak. Even if the cat food is put right in front of it, it won’t eat much. It doesn’t even bother with cat cans. After being hungry for two days, it will at most lick a few times and then walk away. I don’t know why a cat with a stray experience doesn’t cherish food like this…
When it’s in my room, it always tries every way to get into the sealed bed bottom and wardrobe. Or it will run onto my bed when I’m not paying attention. And it never listens to scolding. Neither gentle nor tough methods work. If I coax it gently and stroke its head, after it enjoys itself, it will bite me away. If I use tough methods like using a vacuum cleaner, a spray bottle, hitting its nose with a paper tube, or even giving it a couple of slaps, nothing works. When I scold it, it will lie down and meow, but its eyes still show a fearless stubbornness. It seems that it’s not afraid of anything and will do it again next time. It doesn’t think it’s wrong. It just thinks that you don’t like it doing this. Every time it jumps onto my bed and I turn around and glare at it, it will run away immediately. Every time I try to pull it out when it’s halfway into the bed bottom, it still clings to the ground, desperately trying to get in, even after being scolded so severely that it’s almost scared to pee for the nth time.
Before I brought it home, I thought it was a cute and gentle cat. But later I found that the Dragon Li cat can never get rid of its conceited and spoiled personality. Compared with the British Shorthair I adopted a month later, I found that many cat – raising skills on the Internet don’t work on the Dragon Li cat at all. Dragon Li cats are different from British Shorthairs and blue cats that have been domesticated for generations. They are basically in a semi – wild state. Sometimes I even doubt if it should be called a cat… When you raise it, it regards you as a roommate, and it takes the food and drink you provide for granted. Well, this is quite like a “cat”. Of course, maybe what I said above only applies to my Dragon Li cat. Just like British Shorthairs are often up to mischief, but my blue cat is very, very obedient. However, from reading other answerers’ answers, it seems that this kind of personality of Dragon Li cats is quite common. In fact, for novice cat – raisers, I really don’t recommend the Dragon Li cat. Or if you want a clingy and docile cat, the Dragon Li cat probably won’t be on the list.
It looks chubby and cute from this angle every time… In fact, it’s very thin…
It was still being proper in the first few days after arriving home. Now it’s starting to be less elegant.
It jumped onto the cabinet when getting vaccinated. Hahaha
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