"Reach out a warm hand and you can warm its world."
- KyoKyo
After the show, in anticipation of the weekend's brand-new arrival of the two Meowths, we drove to the pet store.
Like receiving the arrival of a newborn, we stopped at the pet store to pick out a couple of new beds for the two cats and some cat toys and cat supplies. My son told me to get the cat something to clean his teeth. Now I don't have to worry about the two of them escaping again, because they are already part of the family.
At the checkout, my daughter pointed to the two stuffed bears and said, "Mom, you should buy these two." Upon hearing this, I was intrigued.
Daughters, like sons, are socially frugal. No demands on themselves materially, growing up and going into the store consistently not wanting anything.
The most extreme is that when my daughter was small, every time she saw something delicious in the store, she read every English name on it carefully and finished.
This time to buy two stuffed bears, my daughter said to me, PetSmart in the United States every year will launch a plush toy for donations, if you buy these two bears, the money can be used as donations to children's hospitals. I nodded and with my daughter's loving bears and cat supplies we rushed home.
On the weekend, Mark arrived as expected, and it was the fourth time that Mark, the "party organization", came to the door, this time to deliver the cat. As soon as he opened the door, Mark exclaimed with joy:
"Girls! Both of them are girls! "
Haha, so it's sister and sister! I guess I was wrong before.
"Boys and girls are the same." This is really true. The sister, Boba, is a girl. As soon as the cage was opened, Boba "giggled" and disappeared. My sister Coco was still too timid to move when the door was opened, and even when she gently shook the cage, she didn't dare to go out, but finally Mark pushed her, and she finally ran out with her feet open.
Mark showed two small wildcat IDs. The records are as follows:
Boba (博霸) grey long hair, three months old
Cocoa (可可可) brown medium-length hair, two and a half months old
The optimum age for feral cats to switch to domestic cats is before four months. It's really the right time, the right place, and the right person .
It is worth mentioning that I have been using the term "feral cat" instead of "stray cat" throughout this article.
There is no clear distinction between the concepts of "stray cats" and "wild cats" in China.
Whether the cat has an owner or not, if it is wandering around without a home, it is called a "stray cat" in China.
In the United States, "stray cats" and "feral cats" have completely different concepts and are not to be confused.
"Stray Cat" refers to a cat that was originally a domestic pet but was abandoned or lost by its owner.
Its back usually has a microchip placed by a veterinarian, which can be scanned to recognize the cat's name and who owns it, and so on. The microchip is a tiny computerized chip placed under the cat's skin, the size of a grain of rice, usually around the shoulders.
The microchip is the cat's identity card. If they get lost for any reason, a scan of the cat microchip will return the cat to you as soon as possible. Just in case your cat gets lost and ends up in a shelter, or homeless.
Plus, microchipping your cat is painless and only takes a second or two.
Moving on to the main character in my house, the feral cat.
"Feral cats" are cats born without an owner, who are not allowed to be touched and have little experience with people.
In the United States, "stray cats" and "feral cats" "will have a different distinction in appearance:
"Stray Cats " tend to be thinner and have dirty fur.
If a dirty, messy cat appears at your doorstep, it is likely to be a stray cat. As a psychological pressure on losing its owner or being abandoned, a stray cat will neglect its own hygiene.
"Feral cats" are generally robust and have clean fur.
Wild cats are adapted to survive in the wild. And they have established a "beggar gang". Although they are in the bottom of society, in order to maintain a long-term livelihood, to resist the encroachment of foreign cats, wildcats came together, formed a "regional beggar gang".
The wildcats' beggar activities are usually carried out at night, such as the old cat is responsible for looking after the cubs, and the young cat is responsible for foraging for food, etc. So when you see one or two cats in the daytime, you can see that the cats are not in the same position. So when you see one or two wildcats in the daytime, you may not realize that they are backed up by a group of cats who walk the streets.
Therefore, in China, these so-called "stray cats" are basically "feral cats".
Compared to the "stray cats" in the Chinese community, the "wild cats" in the U.S. consume diversified forms of food and have a rich and colorful material life, and in addition to preying on small sawtooth animals like mice, they will also chase rabbits, squirrels, bats, moles, etc., and they also like to chase small cats.
Due to the abundance of wildlife in the United States, and the fact that many residents put in cat food to feed feral cats, feral cats in the United States have basically reached a standard of living.
After the implementation of waste separation and disposal, some residential areas with better waste management have caused the problem of stray cats having difficulty in finding food.
Walking around the neighborhoods or streets in China, you will sometimes encounter stray cats winding around you to beg for food, and if there is a restaurant nearby, they will even sneak into the restaurant and steal food.
There's a saying that "having enough to eat is a necessary condition for talking about morality." ? Stray cats often do this because they're already too hungry.
Bushfires in Australia from 2019 to 2020 have killed and displaced large numbers of animals. After the fires were put out, injured animals walked out of the bush and into the street.
Wild animals ostracize humans, and this happens because these animals are in agony and near despair due to the pain of the burns. The unbearable torment makes them approach humans for help.
Rescuers dabbed cold water on the bodies and paws of the burned wildlife to ease their pain. Many wildlife biologists went into the jungle, and when the burned animals saw humans approaching, they stopped running away and instead waited for human help.
When you walk down the street and encounter stray cats around you, they are just like the animals burned in the Australian bushfires, they have no choice.
Putting some food on the table for these stray cats is a small gesture, and you've saved their lives.
In this article, I read a story by a writer named Peppercorn Cat, who said that in her neighborhood in China, the community manager set up a "stray cat feeding point", where caring residents would drop off cat food at a fixed table and make cat food for stray cats in the winter. In the winter, they will make winter catteries for stray cats.
In Shanghai's Jiading district, residents crowdfunded a campaign to de-sex stray cats in the community.
The quality of life for stray cats depends to some extent on the overall number of stray cats.
In terms of pet legislation, the US has a more mature protection system. It is encouraging to see the adoption of the most scientific TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) management of stray animals in the US. Shanghai has launched the first "stray cat de-sexing vehicle" into the community.
According to reports, such vehicles will be more common in Shanghai's neighborhoods after 2021. At the same time, the government is expanding adoption channels online and offline, such as the Baidu Cat Adoption Bar.
In addition to the spay/neuter carts for stray cats, Shanghai has also seen the emergence of "automatic feeders for stray cats", where people can cash in cat food by throwing in empty mineral water bottles in their hands. This is a great way to protect the environment and care for small animals.
In addition to Shanghai, Hangzhou has opened a government-funded de-sexing vehicle service.
In addition, the country's first "stray animal medical car" opened in the Beijing Foreign Language Institute, the car for the campus of the stray animals for their teeth cleaning, sterilization, skin treatment and other services. On the first day, three stray cats were successfully sterilized.
The act of respecting small animals is a big step forward in human civilization, and a single spark can start a prairie fire.
Today, whether it is the feral cats in the foreign backyard model or the Chinese stray cats roaming around the residential areas of the towns, they have cleaned up the spread of rodent infestation in the living environment where we are, and reduced the damage caused by the proliferation of sawtooths to the buildings. Humans should likewise extend a helping hand to help them and give them back.
In the cat I pour a lot of sentiment pen and ink, two kittens from their respective hiding place drilled out, it is the two first to meet the first stunned, and then as a sudden realization of the general warmly embraced together, the nose constantly touching the nose, and vigorously licked each other's hair, respectively, a few days of the two kittens connected to the heart of the love of love, love of the hand and foot is really touching people.
Just they do not know that in fact the two went to the same "party school", and sat in the same car back.
It was just after noon when the doorbell rang. This time it was not Mark from Wildcat Management, it was his son who came back from the university.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw my son with a flushed face. After hours of long-distance driving, my son didn't seem to be tired at all, and when he saw my old mother, who had been away for a long time, he looked at me with a face of excitement, looked at me affectionately, and said to me with an excited twinkle in his eye:
"Mom, where's the cat?"
The ASPCA estimates that feral cats living on their own without care have an average life span of just 2 years, but feral cats being looked after by a human caretaker can live as long as 10 years.
The ASPCA estimates that feral cats living on their own without care have an average life span of just 2 years, but feral cats being looked after by a human caretaker can live as long as 10 years.
Plug-in water bowls, available at local pet stores, can keep water warm outdoors during winter cold snaps. There are even plug-in feral cat huts There are even plug-in feral cat huts available on the Internet.
Plug-in water bowls, available at local pet stores, can keep water warm outdoors during winter cold snaps. Also, plug-in feral cat huts are available on the Internet.
Caring for feral cats is humane and beneficial for the cats and your community. The feral cats can coexist peacefully with their human neighbors.< /p>
Caring for feral cats is humane and beneficial for the cats and your community. Feral cats can coexist peacefully with their human ****.
Whether you call them feral cats, stray cats, free-roaming cats, neighborhood cats, or community cats, unowned cats living in groups outdoors stay healthier and happier when humans help care for them.
Whether you call them feral cats, stray cats, free-roaming cats, neighborhood cats, or community cats, unowned cats living in groups outdoors are healthier and happier when humans help care for them.
Lorenz, the pioneer of animal behavior, once said that the characteristics and looks of cats evoke a "juvenile trigger" in humans.
When you own a cat, you'll be adorable!
I accidentally wrote such a long story! Thank you for reading to the end!
Bow! (︶￣)/
It's been a long time since I wrote this story.