Social training for cats is a process that can help cats trust humans, adapt quickly to their home environment and be willing to interact with other animals. Cats that do not engage in socialization are timid and sensitive, not prone to trust, and m...
Social training for cats is a process that can help cats trust humans, adapt quickly to their home environment and be willing to interact with other animals.
Cats that do not engage in socialization are timid and sensitive, not prone to trust, and may even be a little aggressive (see Dabai). Cats who are good at socializing will be more well-behaved, lively, and brave and have a sense of trust in others.
If you have children or elderly people at home, then this social training is extremely important and can avoid being accidentally injured by cats during play.
is mainly divided into two parts: habituation and localization in social training. Habitization refers to the stimulating process of making your cat adapt to the sound, smell and scene; localization is the process of making the cat get used to the home and office environment and integrate into it.
The best age for socialized cats is mainly between 2-7 weeks after the cat is born (up to 14 weeks). At this time, the cat's brain perception system is still developing, so the information and stimuli received during this period will affect its subsequent development.
However, the social level of a cat needs to be sterilized, and it does not take too much time every day. Even if there are only 15 minutes of interaction and caress, it will help gain its trust and make it more relaxed.
Note: If your cat is old and you still want to give it social training, it is not impossible, it just needs more time and energy~
How to train cats to socialize?
· A small room
Just imagine that there are only you and a kitten in a compact environment. Isn’t this a big opportunity to increase intimacy?! It can still hide, observe the familiar environment and you secretly, and the small environment is easier for it to adjust and adapt.
· Food Temptation
Some cats are not resistant to food. Maybe when you feed them at the beginning, they will approach them carefully and take them away. At this time, you must not grab your cat with your hands, as it will increase its fear. As time goes by, it will gradually approach you and slowly be able to stay by your side and eat relaxedly.
will even ask you for more things. (Refer to Xiao Ming, you have to avoid it when you open cans, for fear that it will "rush to hear the news")
· Let cats take the initiative to approach
Cats are very sensitive animals, especially some timid cats. Your proximity and excessive enthusiasm will cause them to be frightened/pressurized, making them particularly nervous and more anxious.
So, I advise you to let the cats go with the flow. If they don’t want to get close to them, let them go. If the cat is familiar with the environment, feels comfortable and safe, it will take the initiative to get close to you.
· Relaxing touch
If your cat is willing to take the initiative to approach you, you can try to touch it. Let it smell your scent first and get familiar with you; then touch its head and ears. When the cat shows enjoyment or irresistance, it can hold it in its arms and caress it, and feed it some snacks to completely relax.
· Interactive Game
You can buy some toys for cat petting. You can play and interact with cats more often. You can reduce the destructive behavior caused by boredom and increase your intimacy.
· The prerequisite for introducing your cat to others more often requires ensuring that the cat fully trusts you and should do it in an environment that you are familiar with. Before your friends come into contact with cats, you need to inform them in advance, do not be too excited and enthusiastic in front of the cat, keep quiet, and have a gentle voice. Because cats have several times higher than humans' hearing, they are very likely to be scared, especially those who are sensitive and timid.
Note: If a cat is unwilling to socialize, please do not force it, it will only make the situation worse and worse.
You can create more different contact scenes and objects
Understanding new things in the social training stage is conducive to the development of the kitten's perception system, and can help it quickly adapt to different scenarios, environments and objects, and will not hurt people because of fear, and will also be conducive to personality development. Thinking of it from another perspective, it’s like when you see a spider as big as a house and see a spider with a fingernail, you might just laugh.
Precautions
Usually when kittens are taken home for about 7-8 weeks, it is very important whether the cathouse can do a good job of social training before this. Before the kittens are fully vaccinated, contact with other cats or animals should be prevented to avoid exposure to infection.
Health Cat Expansion
An animal shelter in Newcastle, UK once recruited professional cat nanny. The work is about playing and hugging a group of cats until these kittens are adopted, and the purpose of this work is what we mentioned today's "cat socialization".
