Our Oliver was very antisocial and bitey when we got him from the shelter at probably 4-6 months, and for good reason: he'd already been neutered, declawed, teeth extracted, and abandoned at a "we-kill" shelter. Fortunately, I grew up with male cats that liked to play rough. He was a little dubious about playing with me, and had a huge vocabulary of feline swear words that I loved to listen to while holding his food bowl just out of his reach. (He still uses a few when I balance his chakras once a week.) He warmed up when he realized that I was teaching him to hunt and kill prey.
But I think talking to cats and listening to them carefully is the key. Humans learn to recognize a few words in feline (I know the difference between "I'm hungry again" and "I need the itchy part of my back that I can't reach with my hind legs scratched") and cats learn a few words in human (such as, "No, you can't eat that inside the house!")
Siamese have even larger vocabularies than the tabbies most of us know, so you certainly know this. But any cat can be socialized if you're patient and treat the animal as a personality, not just as a possession. In my opinion, antisocial cats tend to have owners with similar faults, at least from a cat's point of view.
Baby Kitten for Christmas...
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dave1999artwork
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I sometimes wonder if animals get treat better than humans... if you watch the news, alot of the time it shows you footage of all the crap n prestilence people are faced with in third world countries- that's being going on for years, and it always makes me wonder if we're being made to see it to feel better about our own lives.
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ZombieBunny
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dave1999artwork wrote:Cats don't rule, YOU rule. When you start believing that cats rule is when your house becomes the cat's- and the n it's not the cat that's living with you, it's you that's living with the cat.
I got a kitten from the animal rescue shelter last july. There's no point in having a cat unless you get it from a kitten. When they become adults, they don't give a crap about anything other than themselves. Over time I learnt how much of a smarty pants the cat that lives with me now is... best thing about this one is that he never tells you when he needs to exit the room to do his business, and so I find three massive shits bigger than the actual animal on my rug. I'd have a dog, but they require more attn: plus i don't have the time and the money for one.
nice siamese btw;
You must have a lot of pent up anger as you always have to say something negative.
All three of my cats were adult strays when I found them and they are the greatest joy and the sweetest things. Everyone who gets an animal must know it takes work. You cant just throw an animal in your house and then that is it.
dave1999artwork wrote:I sometimes wonder if animals get treat better than humans... if you watch the news, alot of the time it shows you footage of all the crap n prestilence people are faced with in third world countries- that's being going on for years, and it always makes me wonder if we're being made to see it to feel better about our own lives.
Ignorance must be bliss.I really feel for your cat....
