Wanting to bring a cat home is one of the best ideas we will have in our life. Especially if the decision is to adopt an animal in a shelter. As we will not tire of repeating, adoption is the best option: we will give a new life to an animal without a family; it will cost us less than a purchase; It can be already educated, vaccinated, dewormed and maybe sterilized and we will be leaving room for a new furry “orphan” to enter the shelter
In addition, the protectors are dedicated to rescuing, curing and caring for the animals until they manage to trust the human being. If there are animals whose socialization is more difficult, they usually have the help of volunteer educators who teach the furry to be calmer, be less afraid, be less aggressive or whatever their problem is. That is a great advance for the future coexistence with you.
In fact, the protector volunteers will know which animals to introduce you to according to the compatibility they may have with you. Before choosing one of the options, find out about the life it had before arriving at the shelter (if they know anything about it), the character of that animal, which one is more or less shy, which one has a behavioral problem. Let yourself be advised by the shelter workers because they are the most interested in that the future relationship between you and the cat goes well and that way no one returns to the center to return the furry one because coexistence becomes impossible. They are seldom wrong.
The first step is to bend down to smell our hand
When we enter the room where the cats are, it is best to bend down or sit on the floor and reach out to them so they can smell us. We will not get close and let the felines act first. If they want to get closer or further away, they will have to be respected. We will remain as statues.
There are two possibilities:
– If a cat approaches, rubs it with your hand, it is a good sign, it is greeting you. The brush it makes with your head or side of the body is a way of looking for information.
– If the feline is rubbing with the furniture or objects in the room, it may be afraid of our presence but it is possible that it slowly approaches until it ends up rubbing or smelling you.
In the worst case, there will be kittens who will not approach and will try to go unnoticed by you. Because an animal does this, it should not be rejected, they also have the right to have a family, although we would have to talk to those responsible for the protection center if this is a common behavior in that furry or if it has done it because it does not know the people who They have entered.
After the presentation process, after having spent time with the cats checking how they behave, after the caregivers have given us the adoption questionnaire with questions such as who lives in the home and how many hours the animal would spend alone, the time will come. to make the adoption official.
