How to tell if it s a feral cat or a stray cat picked up 50

1. How to distinguish stray cats from wild cats.

Rescuing stray cats is different from wild cats, stray cats refer to cats that are suitable for living with people, but live in the wild. Helping stray cats re-enter human homes can greatly improve the quality of life of stray cats, but if wild cats (especially adult wild cats) are mistakenly adopted as pets in human homes, it can lead to a tragedy for both humans and cats – the quality of life of both is seriously affected. Therefore, it is very necessary to understand the difference between stray cats and wild cats before rescue.

Generally, we use the following criteria to comprehensively determine whether a cat is a stray cat:

1.Cats have a strong desire to communicate with people and like to talk to people (when you bark at the cat, he will respond to you).

2.When you feed your cat, he usually puts down the food and he will come over to eat it without waiting for you to walk far away.

3.A cat's coat is usually dirty – he can't adapt to life in the wild.

If the cat you meet meets most of the above terms, it can generally be considered a stray cat, and the stray cat is generally easier to approach, and many people can take it home.

However, there are some exceptions, if a stray cat has been injured during his wandering life, he may become wary of people, but such cats are still stray cats, and they are not suitable for survival in the wild. In this case, please use more love, care and patience to get to know him, slowly approach him, and help him!

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Generally, the cats in the school are stray cats, if someone raises them, they will definitely be fed, and the school cats are generally very close to people, because they can get food from students, especially male cats, and female cats are more vigilant.

Stray cats are generally afraid of life and will be dirty. It's all some wild cats, and they won't be in good shape. It won't be very picky about eating either. will eat.

Look if anyone is looking for this cat recently, and what is the attitude of this cat, if he sees people and is very scared, it should not be kept at home.

If you pick up a stray cat and want to raise it yourself, you need to go to the hospital for some basic physical examination. First of all, infectious diseases, feline plague virus, herpes virus, calicivirus, is necessary to check the second is the first disease, to see if the kitten has feline ringworm or trauma, there is no best, if there is a hurry to catch the parasite as soon as possible ** is also very important, because stray cats live in the wild, ectoparasites, lice, fleas and internal parasites should be checked.

And if you already have small animals at home, be sure to quarantine for a week to two weeks.

To adopt a stray cat, a medical examination is done. The items of the medical examination are determined according to the age of the stray cats.

Kittens need to be examined for the following items:

In vitro and in vivo parasite screening, physical examination (body temperature, weight, respiration, heart rate, ear, nose and mouth, etc.), infectious diseases (zoonotic diseases, feline plague, feline corona, feline nasal branch, feline calicivirus, etc.), blood routine, parasites, etc.

The items to be examined for middle-aged and elderly cats are:

Routine blood test, parasites, infectious diseases, biochemistry, ultrasound, etc. If there is a cat with obvious abnormal physical health, it is necessary to do relevant physical examination according to the specific situation.

After checking the inspection of stray cats, it is best to do a full body examination, first clean and clean and then deworm, and then vaccinate various vaccines, under normal circumstances, pet hospitals can do it.

Pick up stray cats, if you want to raise him, you can do some more comprehensive examinations, and then go for an injection.

It is best to go to the pet hospital to check the stray cats that you have picked up, and then take them home to raise, which is more reassuring.

Picking up a hooligan, the cat just needs to take it to the pet hospital for a check-up to see if he is healthy.

1. Obtain the consent of the family.

If you live by yourself, then you don't have to think about it so much, and you can keep a cat whenever you want. But if you live with your family, you must first consider the wishes of your family, and it is best to bring stray cats home if everyone in your family can accept them, which can also give cats a stable living atmosphere.

2. Check the health status of the cats.

Stray cats may not be so healthy and can carry some diseases, so it is recommended to go to a pet member to do some basic check-ups before taking them home, including deworming work, to confirm the health of the cats before taking them home to raise.

3. Prepare daily necessities for cats.

After the cats arrive at home, the shovel officer needs to prepare some necessary daily necessities for the cats, the most basic ones are cat litter boxes, cat litter, bowls for eating and drinking, and food. Secondly, if conditions permit, you can prepare small toys such as cat scratching boards and cat teasing sticks, cat beds or boxes for cats to sleep on.

Cats may not be very adaptable to the new environment just after changing to a new environment, they will be afraid, they will hide themselves, don't worry, as long as it can fix eating, going to the toilet, and after a week or two, the cats can get used to your home, you can take it to get vaccinated to prevent frequent illness, and the cats can take a bath after the vaccine is complete. When all of the above things are done, the cats will be considered to be a member of your family completely.

Stray kittens have just been picked up, and they need to be restricted from moving within a certain range, which can give them a sense of security and help them adapt to their new environment. To provide kittens with sufficient cat food and water, they need to be replaced in time to avoid deterioration and breeding bacteria, and the litter box should be placed in a ventilated place. Don't rush to get close to the kitten so as not to scare it.

Preparing a cardboard box for a newly picked up kitten and restricting its activities to a certain range can give it a sense of security, adapt to the new environment faster, and not feel anxious in too much space.

It is necessary to provide sufficient cat food and water to the kitten, which is generally not eaten much at the beginning, and needs to be replaced in time to avoid spoilage and breeding bacteria. The cat litter box should be placed in a ventilated place, and the cat litter should be poured full of cat litter to make the cat familiar.

Don't be too eager to get close to the kitten to avoid scaring the kitten. Observe at home for a week, during which you can buy deworming drugs to help it deworm, if there is no abnormality in the mental aspect, you can collapse the mold to go to the pet hospital for examination, and make an appointment for vaccination. Sailshirt blind.

Big cats may not be able to pick him up even if you want to, because you don't have it to run fast, and the kitten is what we say, just born 1 3 months of small milk cats, for various reasons, such as the mother moved, or, the kitten itself lost, or the kitten's own smell and change, abandoned by the cat mother, into a poor and lonely single stray child, for this kind of kitten they do not have much survivability, only a few can survive, if you are a kind person, encountered, it's better to pick them up and raise them at home, saving the cat's life is also a great merit.

Secondly, we must pay attention when picking up cats, especially for kittens, we have to observe, is there a female cat nearby? Sometimes the female cat sees the kitten nearby, someone appears, he will hide on the side and observe secretly, this time you should pay attention, first of all, if you have not made up your mind, to take the kitten home, do not touch it or pick it up, because your actions may bring some female cats to the kitten angry and change and abandon, and when you have some contact sex with the kitten, the female cat may muster up the courage and rush directly to attack you, Of course, it is not a good thing to cause harm to anyone between you, so the best way is to see the kitten, you also choose to observe secretly, observe for about half an hour to an hour, and find that there is no female cat nearby, at this time you can take the kitten away.

1. Try to make contact with cats in the wild, stray cats have a strong desire to communicate with people and will respond to people's calls, while wild cats are not close to people and are generally hostile.

2. Feed cats in the wild, stray cats only need to put down the food when they are fed by humans, and it will automatically come to eat, without waiting for people to go far away before eating, and wild cats generally do not accept human feeding.

3. Stray cats will not immediately walk away after eating the food they are fed, but will stay with humans for a while and even spoil humans, while wild cats do not love to be close to humans.

4. The body hair of stray cats will be very dirty, this is because it was pampered by humans before, so that it cannot adapt to life in the wild, and wild cats have adapted to life in the wild and will comb their own hair, so it will not be particularly dirty.

5. Check whether the cat has been neutered, this kind of cat is generally sterilized and released, and some will cut their ears as a mark. If the cat you encounter meets most of the above terms, you can generally identify it as a stray cat.