In real life, I believe that many people can see roadside communities or parks, there are many cats, many cat lovers will feed them, or want to rescue them, but many people do not know how to adopt a stray cat?
Rescue is not to let everyone see the stray cat to take home, if there is no rescue experience or cat conditions, may be kind to do bad things, first determine whether the cat is a stray cat or a wild cat, in order to judge whether it can adapt to living indoors with people, it is not recommended to forcibly adopt a wild cat.
Stray cats are willing to approach people and often move in houses, cars and other human activities. Feral cats prefer to seek refuge in remote places away from the crowds.
Stray cats are more likely to live alone because of their personality. Feral cats are relatively poor in living conditions and are more likely to live in groups.
Stray cats will walk toward people with their tails upright like domestic cats, and may also roll and turn their bellies at people. Feral cats will be more alert, try to avoid contact with people, may hide or clip their tails and slip away, and have a certain aggressiveness.
Build foundational trust
Stray cats are more defensive and need to be patient and slowly approach it to gain trust.
Fixed-point timing feeding
Leave food at about the same time and place every day, call it softly, and if it hides, you walk a long distance and don't disturb it to eat.
Try to approach
When the cat is no longer hiding, try to gently call it in a gentle voice and slowly approach it. Don't stare at it, don't touch it directly with your hands, and be careful of being scratched and bitten.
Trap a cat
When it can accept your touch, it can be prepared to be trapped, do not feed too much food before trapping, prepare food to attract it in the trapping cage, you can give the cat a small snack that the cat loves to eat, the stray cat is also a pet cat before straying, and will also be fed by the former owner to reward snacks, so how do novices choose the snacks that the cat loves to eat? You can refer to the following articles: