I have been raising cats for three and a half years. I have three cats at home now and twelve at my peak. Most of them are British and American Shorthairs. I have also raised Tianyuan. British and American Shorthairs have similar personalities. I mean the ones I have come across have relatively stable personalities. At least they don’t have the habit of biting and scratching. The next thing I want to talk about is the Tianyuan that my family adopted.

This is a seven-month-old civet cat. The little white female cat was adopted a year ago. At that time, I had two cats, one blue and white and one silver tabby. I saw an offer for adoption on the local app. I thought they were both cats anyway, and their habits should not be much different. I had cat supplies and experience at home, so I adopted her

I first followed the rules and met the aboriginal people after a week of isolation. Within this week of isolation, I found that this kitten had a bite It was a human habit, and it stretched its claws uncontrollably, moved wildly, and ate to protect food. I didn't care at the time. After being released a week later and meeting the aboriginal people, I learned that the nightmare had begun.

First of all, this kitten eats everything and protects its food. My cat's food bowl is full of food throughout the day. Even if this kitten is full, it has to put the cat food bag. I chewed it open and ate it with my hands. I crushed an unopened pack of goose. Then I had to pack it into pieces. I even grabbed people's food. They grabbed it on the table and ran away after grabbing it, leaving it all over the house. They refused to change after repeated admonitions.

The food protection was serious. The aborigines did not dare to eat at that time and would be beaten by it when they ate. Even if they were not eating at the time, they would run over and open it when they saw a cat eating. My two original The resident has a rather naive personality, and even though he is bigger than him, he still chases and beats him

In fact, what he hates the most is biting and scratching. According to my many years of experience in raising cats, it is normal for cats to scratch people. Sometimes they accidentally catch people by kicking their hind legs. It does not mean it at all, but deliberately biting people and breaking them is too much. Cats are very good at controlling the strength of their bites. Sometimes my cat plays with me He pretended to bite me, but he never bit me, even when he was angry. But the only time I got rabies vaccination was because of this little Tianyuan. He bit me twice in a week, once for eating chicken breast, and he bit my finger without letting go. It was returned to its previous owner. On the day I sent it back, I found out that this kitten had been retired three times, all because of biting people and guarding food. The previous owner also had two kittens, and this one was more aggressive and always fought, so I gave it away.

This adoption experience left a deep impression on me, but when it comes to this, someone must say that not all rural areas are like this. I admit this, I This one does have an extreme personality, but my friend also has a farm male cat that he has raised since he was a child. First of all, let me talk about his personality. He is timid and afraid of people. He is afraid of strangers and not his owner. My friend often sees scratch wounds on his arms, but whenever a stranger comes to the house, he immediately hides under the bed and reacts very violently. Not to mention the change of environment. When he goes to the pet hospital, he will be harassed and scratched by the doctor. . But my cats rarely have this kind of situation. The classic case is that of my eldest son, Lan Bai. One time, China Unicom staff came to the house to pull the network cable. My cat actually went to rub someone's leg when they came in. . They have a very gentle personality. In my opinion, pastoral cats are more prone to stress when encountering problems.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are many obedient Tianyuan. You can often see Tianyuan with a docile personality on the Internet. But what I want to say is that breed cats do have more stable personalities than Tianyuan cats. I am talking about a high probability. Seven or eight out of ten breed cats are obedient. However, the probability of Tianyuan is far less than that of breed cats. Because breed cats have experienced After many generations of artificial breeding and genetic screening, the trust and dependence on humans has far exceeded that of pastoral cats. Cats with bad personalities will not be retained as breeding cats. It is well known that a cat’s personality genes are greater than education. Cats are not like dogs. Later education is basically useless for them. The temperament is basically fixed in the genes. This is what I heard from a cat breeder. I didn’t believe it at the time until Later, after my family gave birth to a litter of blue and white and a litter of tabby, I realized that this sentence was so true. The two female cats were weaned at two months, and the two litters of kittens were raised together. They were raised in the same way and ate the same food. The parents of blue and white were relatively gentle, and the children were also very gentle. The mother of tabby was a bit impatient, and her temper was not as good as that of the parents of blue and white. As the kittens grow older, especially when they are four or five years old, After a few months, you can see that the personalities are becoming more and more like their parents. Even if they are raised in the same way, the inheritance in the genes cannot be changed

Take me personally, I don’t have many requirements for the appearance of cats, but for the personality, I really can’t raise a cat with a bad personality. You can say that I am impatient, but which cat owner doesn’t want his cat to have a good personality? Do you like cats with extreme personalities that bite and scratch people every day?

I really envy those who have raised very obedient Tianyuan. If your Tianyuan’s parents or even ancestors are domestic cats, or they are abandoned domestic cats, then the chances of it having a good character are very high. If it is mixed with wild cat species, it is hard to say, but no one is artificially breeding Tianyuan now, so it is not clear what genes most Tianyuan cats have. Adopting an obedient Tianyuan cat is like a lottery