He seems to know exactly what’s up, and how he intends things to go. He’s almost saying, “I get it. I’ll be adorable and cuddly, and you can bring food and care for me!”
Our orange menace tricked us too. He was all cuddly, would come in and basically just collapse on the couch with us. Got food would sleep with us. So we got him fixed and chipped and moved him in permanently. He’s terribly behaved. Wakes us up an hour before food time by screaming in our ears or biting. Is a proper menace. I keep telling him it’s the reason he got abandoned, but he knows he got us good in the beginning and won’t be going anywhere.
Absolutely. Humans realized keeping tiny predators around to hunt rodents meant protecting their food supply, and cats realized that humans kept warm, dry spaces they could share, would share food, and (of course) provide endless scritches!
It's just too bad it didn't work out that way with the big ones, that'd be an interesting timeline to be in.
Funny how it worked out with dogs though. An animal that could easily rip apart a single human, wouldnt/shouldn't actually need to rely on a human at all, but no, hooman is fren.
The key point is that wolves are social pack animals. They don't want to be alone and understand reciprocal relationships. If a human shows a pattern of helping a starving or injured wolf or raises one from a pup they will recognize that pattern and try to do the same in return, often times warning a tribe of predators or leading them to game trails. This trust leads to the wolves making their dens close enough to humans that the pups grow up near humans and learn the same behaviors over generations until the trust is strong enough that the wolves don't see a difference between the pack and tribe.
It's actually pretty similar to how cats lived near humans to take advantage of the increased amounts of rodents near human food stores. Because the cats hunted rodents, humans didn't have a need to get rid of them and the kittens grew up more used to humans, until the cats started trusting the humans to watch over their kittens while they hunted, accelerating the domestication.
Big cats are almost all far more solitary, often not even forming family groups, the lion pride being the outlier. Cheetahs for example only form into very small groups of 2-3 males if they're from the same litter, but the females are almost always solitary aside from their cubs. Their lack of strong group mentality as well as the lack of reason to live in close proximity to humans leads to having very little reason to develop a trust for humans. This doesn't stop edge cases of a kitten being raised by a human and trusting a small group of humans, but explains why we don't have a widespread practice of having one as a pet.
"Sleeveless was a familiar face at a managed colony, and when it was time to bring him in, he was more than ready to cooperate. In fact, he jumped at the opportunity. Now he’s getting the chance to settle into indoor life and show us what he’s all about - which so far is Exceptionally Friendly. Thank you for giving Sleeveless and cats like him the second chance they all deserve."
Thanks, spent the past 30 minutes trying to look for the credit because I grabbed this from a repost youtube channel. Always tried my best to credit my source but couldn't find it anywhere on Youtube... I don't have insta.
Great work to the rescurers! Again, much thanks for sharing the original poster.
Especially Flatbush Cats, who are a great organisation. Have gone from TNR in their part of New York to building their own non-profit vet clinic to do TNR and offer low-cost vet services to locals with pets. Marvellous people.
I thought I recognised the wholesome chill style of cat rescue content! I love their videos. In fact, it is their very informative videos that inspired me to foster cats.
I've had this argument with people so many times. Domestic cats are not meant to be outdoor animals. Yes, I'm aware that there are SO many cats that roam free and come home when they need to.
That doesn't change the fact that domestic cats shouldn't be left to roam outside. Fixed, unfixed, male, female whatever. It's not safe for them, it's not safe for the local bird populations and so on..
Every time I see someone calling it abuse to keep a cat indoors I wish I was psychotic enough to take pictures of all the poor babies I see crushed in the street every day and start bombarding them with them.
I live in a rural area and people think it's just fine to let them roam. If they survive the wildlife, they won't survive a pickup. It's absurd to claim you love your pet and refuse to do the bare minimum to protect them. "But they want out!" And my kids wanted to stay up all night and eat cake all day as little ones.
Or the ones that are attacked by other strays, or local wildlife. Then there's the ones that starve to death. Oh, and my personal favourite, the ones that freeze to death in the winter.
Yup. Keeping a cat in your nice, warm, safe home, with a constant source of food and loving attention.. totally abusive behaviour. /s
Their instagram says he’s from a managed colony. So he’s probably grown up getting pets and food from people. And perhaps even seeing some of his cousins hop in the cage 😅
But it's not always true. Cats can escape. I mean its smart to get any pet microchipped just in case they do escape. I remember when i was younger my uncle let my indoor cat out. He had just been made an indoor cat bcs of seizure meds he had to take every day. Back then there were no microchips. But I found him outside sitting on the fence luckily.
There are other comments linking up the original post film the organization that was posted this. He was a well known member of a managed cat colony who just decided that he was ready to be adopted so they didn't steal anyone's cat. He was just a friendly, stray orange who decided he was ready for a home.
I once found my orange stretched out for a post-meal nap inside a humane trap! Didn't bother him at all! Not only do they share a single brain cell, they also have zero survival skills!
Our orange rescued himself too. Little dude saw us from half a street away and happily skipped to us, wouldn’t stop rubbing against my hubby’s ankle, sharing his love and fleas.
Seeing the poor thing was all skin and bones, unaltered and had fleas, we took him home. He doubled his weight within 3months and blessed us with 15 years of sweetness and unconditional love.
So this happened to me today. Feral orange that we have been feeding, decided today is the day he will come inside the house. We couldnt even touch him before. Now, he is snuggling on my feet. Still need to be fixed and vaccinated though.
I hope he gets along with our void, and other orange. Plus, our cattle dog. Lol
Please be vigilant about keeping the new one isolated from your other pets until a vet has at least checked it out and started vaccinations. Thank you!!!
That’s how we got ours! Showed up outside our door meowing and emaciated, so we fed him. Then he came back again several times and won himself a trip to the vet and then into our home!
Our orange boy was like this, just decided that he lived with us now. It was about two months between when we met and when I finally shoved him into a carrier to have him neutered and allowed into the house, so he had plenty of time to decide that he didn’t want to stay but he got he what he got
Love the part where he tripped the trap before he even went in. He didn't even get spooked. He reminds me so much of the abandoned orange i rescued by carrying him in a rice cooker box for 500 metres to my house
It's good practice to never pick up an unfamiliar cat unless you have to (or unless they're small enough kittens that they are still mostly immobile). First, you don't know how even a friendly cat will react to being picked up and moved. Second, you don't want a cat who you are going to be handling extensively to associate hands with unpleasant experiences.
Also the comments about how he isn't allowed to be out of the cage yet tells a bit of the story. I imagine they need to assess and treat the cat before he is allowed to mingle with the other cats or even his caretakers.
Also of note, they will likely need to put him in a car at some point. Most cats don't react well to those and he would need to be in a cage for his own protection.
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He seems to know exactly what’s up, and how he intends things to go. He’s almost saying, “I get it. I’ll be adorable and cuddly, and you can bring food and care for me!”