Why don t cats like to catch mice anymore?

Nowadays, cats are pampered by shovelers, especially some cats in the city who stay in the house almost all day long and don't go out, eat well, use well, and live well, so why do cats still have to catch mice? As the saying goes, "a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger", it is not because I have never seen a tiger and do not know what it is, and the mother cow has not taught it. Then the same is almost the same for pet cats now, soon after opening their eyes, the "mother and child" are separated, and the cat mother has no opportunity to teach her baby.

Most predators in nature, their physical qualities are inherited genetically, but hunting skills are learned. In the African savannah, the lion is in charge of hunting, and the lion cub will follow the lion to hunt and learn when she reaches a certain age. There are also tigers who often catch some small animals and do not kill them, and bring them back to their babies to practice, which are to be learned from below.

Therefore, wild animals that grow up in zoos, especially predators, do not even hunt by themselves when they return to the wild, or the hunting efficiency is very low, and it is difficult to survive in the wild.

This is the case with cats nowadays, because they usually eat cat food, and the cat owner will also restrict the cat from catching mice, because from his point of view, cats eating mice may be dirty, and under natural conditions, they will not be hungry for food, drink, and hunger, so they will have no primitive drive. If you add the intentional restrictions of the owner, some modern cats are not very good at catching mice, and some are even afraid of mice.

Some people have cats at the same time, but also pet mice, but also forcibly put them together, whenever the cat to bite the mouse, the owner will scold it, such behavior for a long time what cat still catches mice. But some cats in the countryside will still catch mice, they will run out every day to "hang out", and the countryside grows crops and food is sufficient, so there will be relatively more mice.

There is a theory that the closeness of cats to humans is not so much the result of our domestication as it is their domestication of themselves. How dangerous it is to survive in the wild, and you may also face starving auditions, it is better to simply rely on humans to survive and develop. There is an essential difference between pet cats and pet dogs, dogs are domesticated by humans and are our good companions, and they obey their owners.

Cats, on the other hand, always show a haughty posture, and they don't have the consciousness of eating people's mouths at all, but their soft and cute appearance is just right for your heart.

Any animal hunting is to fill the stomach, the pet cat at home has enough food and rarely comes into contact with mice, so it will naturally not hunt mice for a long time.

I have to say that many cats nowadays have become human pets, and even the food they eat is carefully developed by humans, and their appetite has changed, and they have lost their nature of catching mice.

Cats are now pets, and it's not that they don't like to catch mice, after all, the standard of living is now improving, and the status of cats is also improving.

Cats don't like to catch mice, in fact, the main reason is that cats have become very lazy nowadays, and they don't have such sharp functions, and they have begun to slowly degenerate.

Because there are fewer and fewer rats nowadays, cats can't rely on eating mice to fill their stomachs. In addition, many cats are now bred in captivity, and they eat very well, and of course they don't like to eat mice.

Nowadays, cats don't catch mice, all because cats are raised by humans. Then they are no longer wild, so they don't want to catch mice, and they think that this is how they live.

Because now the survivability of mice is getting stronger and stronger, more and more powerful, many cats can't catch mice, and now many people keep cats as pet cats, cats' lives are smooth and slippery, and they gradually lose their instinct to catch mice.

In the past, cats survived by catching mice, and mice belonged to the cat's food, but now cats do not lack food, and over time they lose the ability to prey.

Because the living conditions of cats are getting better and better, the food that humans feed cats is enough to feed their stomachs, so cats naturally will no longer catch mice to eat.

First of all, I want to say that cats and mice are instinctive, and there is no problem that cats don't catch mice, so don't worry.

In addition, if the cat at home is full, or old, it will ignore the mouse, so sometimes the cat does not catch the mouse for a reason, some cats are old and can't run, and most of them are lying on the ground and lazy.

In addition, cats can be cultivated from an early age, when there is nothing to get a little mouse tied to the cat's side, the cat will play for a while, so that the cat will develop the habit of catching mice, cats generally catch mice will not bite the mice to death first, and will bite the mice to death when they have played enough.

Finally, I want to say that if the cat is satisfied with the above conditions, it is not to catch mice, indicating that there is a problem with the breed of cats, and the cats existing in China must catch mice, and there is no need to train at all, but some foreign pet cats are not certain.

After so many years of raising cats, I suddenly want to ask why the concept of cats catching mice is so strong, and cats can also catch sparrows and lizards. After thinking about it for so long, I think there are the following reasons, let me take you step by step to analyze, and slowly understand the things behind the solid thinking of cat and mouse.

The first thing to throw out is why humans domesticated cats, because about 10,000 years ago, human beings began to have agriculture and slowly got rid of fishing and hunting life. Humans are not the only ones who have benefited from the rise of agriculture, but there are also some small rodents who have been able to steal the fruits of human labor, especially rats.

This rat is so bad that it not only steals the fruits of human labor, but also often gnaws wood, grinds teeth, gnaws clothes, and household objects. Speaking of which, the post-80s children living in the countryside should know that the books at home, the cabinets at home, the clothes at home, and the oil at home are often destroyed by rats, which is really miserable.

The biggest harm of rats is not only this, rats carry a lot of germs, such as plague, malaria, hemorrhagic fever, any take out is fatal, there has been a large outbreak of plague in history, **human history has died at the hands of rats more than any world war**.

In this context, cats appeared and became the saviors of human society, and in ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods because of their ability to effectively restrain rat plagues, and those who killed cats were put to death. The domestication and appearance of cats is to restrain mice, and slowly humans have passed down cats and mice from generation to generation.

Secondly, to talk about cats catching mice is to talk about the physiological structure of cats. Cats are small in size, flexible in joints, good at climbing and jumping, sharp in toes and claws, and are natural hunters. In terms of the structure of the cat's teeth, the teeth are serrated and staggered, and the number is relatively small, and the canine teeth are protruding, which are for tearing and cutting off meat tissue.

From the perspective of the digestive system, the intestines of cats are very short compared to humans, and there is not a lot of storage space, so it requires food to be easy to digest and high in energy, this structure is very suitable for high-protein food, and various small animals are very good choices, including mice resistant to erection.

Cats' eyes can also give them wings, and they adjust their pupil size sensitively according to the intensity of the light. During the day, the light is intense, and the pupils are constricted into a line; When the light of the sunset weakens, the pupils are dilated, round and bright, and you can see things at night.

Rats in the agricultural period became an important part of cats and cats to obtain food, which made people always talk about cats and mice subconsciously.

Cats are pure carnivores, cats catch mice and eat mice are in line with their own predatory behavior and nutritional needs, not just like mice, cats will also catch sparrows, lizards, fish, etc., mice are not the only food for cats**. For 5,000 years, it was a lonely predator, and for the next 5,000 years, because of the moe, it gradually became a companion pet, but this still cannot hide their importance to the prevention and control of rodent infestation.

When the cat catches the crack mouse, the first time is not to eat the mouse, but to treat the mouse as its own toy, when playing for a period of time, feel no interest in playing, or after the mouse can't run, in the cat's opinion, this time can no longer become a toy, then it will be the old thing mouse bite plum liquid to death, into their own stomach food.

Because it is a nocturnal animal, it needs a lot of taurine in order to see things clearly at night, and fish and mice contain a lot of taurine, so cats like to catch mice. However, rats generally prefer to live in dark and damp places, and the number of parasites they carry on their bodies is innumerable.

Cats catch not only mice, but also small birds and small rodents, and are natural killers. And most of the time they only hunt for the sake of killing – well, it's just fun. It's just that cats and mice are good for humans, and this result is reinforced.

Cats like to catch mice because they are smaller and easier to hunt. Not only mice, but also birds, fish, and insects are also foods that cats like to catch. However, cats catch mice mainly because of the presence of taurine in the mice's body, which can help cats improve their night vision.

Mice are much smaller than cats and are easier to catch. Over time, rats become the cat's main food**.

Cats themselves are meat-eating animals, and cats living in the wild not only like to catch mice, but also prey on birds, fish, insects, etc., as a supplement to daily nutrition.

Cats lack taurine in their bodies, so they may not be able to see clearly in dark nights, and their night vision will decrease. The body of mice contains taurine, so cats will catch mice for food and replenish themselves with taurine substances.