Show Us Your Pets

**Timber** · 31 Jul 2012, 03:25 PM

I won 3 of them in a claw machine. He's destroyed one, is in the process of destroying this one, and I've got another up in the closet for when this one gets too disgusting or ripped apart.

**Frogacuda** · 01 Dec 2012, 11:30 PM

I've heard many people say that it's impossible to fully domesticate an adult feral cat, but boy, are they wrong.

I spent a couple months buddying up to this guy, meowing at him and giving him food when I saw him, although he never let me get less than few feet from him. The morning before Hurricane Sandy, I found him crying for me on the porch. The day before he had let me pet him for the first time, and that day he actually let me pick him up. I put him in this shitty little vestibule space between my kitchen and back door. I figured he'd hate it but it least he'd be safe. Turns out he thinks it's the best thing that ever happened to him. Here he is the morning after the storm.

He's basically 100% tame love bug cat, now, sweeter than any "domesitc" cat I've met. Likes belly rubs, the whole nine. We have too many cats to keep him, but I have a friend who I think is going to take him.

**Rumpy** · 02 Dec 2012, 01:56 AM

That friend isn't going to live through the first night.

**Frogacuda** · 02 Dec 2012, 09:23 AM

Because of all the cuddles, you mean?

**Yoshi** · 02 Dec 2012, 10:42 AM

We took in a feral cat roughly a year ago who actually looks a lot like the one above, and our experience is exactly the same. Sometimes he'll still hiss or growl at our alpha male cat (and the reverse), but he sleeps with the dogs and is as loving as can be.

**Frogacuda** · 02 Dec 2012, 10:44 AM

Yeah, that's typical. Cats that are late to get fixed (whether they're feral or otherwise) tend to be more territorial toward other cats, although this one seems to be an exception, possibly because he's a little runty.

They also tend to be easier to train to understand commands, oddly enough.

**Dolemite** · 02 Dec 2012, 11:07 AM

That's a cute story, Frog. I'm assuming the video of Rico the cat on the Got Next channel is yours as well...how many cats do you have?

**Frogacuda** · 02 Dec 2012, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by Dolemite

That's a cute story, Frog. I'm assuming the video of Rico the cat on the Got Next channel is yours as well...how many cats do you have?

Yeah, Rico was an abandoned cat in my neighborhood, too. He wasn't feral though, his family just got sick of him once he got to be full size and left him to starve. Here's a before and after of him, you can see how skinny he was.

Rico is my only cat, but my roommate has three, so there's four total in the house (five counting our guest), which is kind of a lot.