How to improve a kitten's personality?

Feb 06,2024
8Min

For a kitten with a good personality, genetic inheritance is the primary factor. There is no doubt about this. If I were to assign a proportion to the factor of genes,

If it is 10 points, genes should account for at least 7 points.

​And the remaining 3 points need us to influence it.

But there is an interesting thing here, that is, if you do the 3-point task inappropriately, especially if you are given some negative training.

Then the cat’s personality may be stronger without training than with training.

Because cats have particularly clear memories of injuries, so you must be gentle to cats.

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Generally speaking, if you train and influence your cat during the first few weeks of its life, especially the first to eighth weeks, you will eventually get the results you want:

It will become better

It will be easier to let go on the court

It will be easier to get along with humans

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In short, the earlier a cat is positively trained, the easier it will be to develop in a good direction.

And some bad habits, once developed, will be more difficult to deal with when they get older.

If it were easier, I’m afraid teachers who teach behavioral science would be unemployed

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Training should begin immediately after birth,

The training during this period is to make the kitten familiar with the smell of people, not only its mother, but also you.

Familiar with your scent,

Familiar with your touch,

I am familiar with your voice,

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Just hold it in your hands and hug it every day,

Of course, you can ignore this step for some kittens that need artificial milk supplementation and artificial defecation and urination. They are likely to feel closer to you than to their own mother when they see you in the future.

Of course, what needs to be emphasized here is that if the mother cat takes good care of the kittens, you should not interfere excessively in other people's affairs.

Just touch them while they are nursing.

In addition, when they open their eyes, you can increase the frequency and movements, such as:

​​You can sing to it,

​​You can hold it high and stick it on your face,

You can let it feel the breathing rhythm of your nostrils,

In short, let the kitten know that your existence is as important as the existence of the mother cat!

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Once a kitten opens its eyes, the time varies from kitten to kitten, but is generally around 10 days.

At this time, you should wipe the kitten’s eyes with a tissue every week.

When you get the chance, open the kitten’s mouth from time to time.

When nothing happens, use a cotton ball or cotton swab to gently try to clean the kitten's ears, or rub its ears.

All of the above are preparations for the future.

Because in the future, you need to give it eye drops, feed it capsules, brush its teeth, wash its ears...

You need to start getting used to this now.

 4.

When a male cat is preparing to play in a competition in the future, his balls will be touched by the referee. Therefore, if he did not practice when he was young, and a stranger touches him, he will feel a huge sense of shame.

Therefore, when it is a child, it is necessary to train it to get used to being touched.

But here is one thing to emphasize, you can’t touch blindly, here comes the key point:

Before the two balls have completely fallen down, we call it, don’t touch them frequently before they fall into the bag.

Otherwise, it will become nervous, and it will tighten when it becomes nervous. As time goes by, the stimulation will be too much, which will delay the egg falling into the bag.

If one egg fails to fall into the bag, or two eggs fail to fall into the bag, then you will lose the qualification to play the game.

Therefore, the principle is to touch less before the bag is dropped and to touch more after the bag is dropped.

5.

Regarding other aspects, there are still many miscellaneous things, so I will briefly describe them below without going into details.

Nail trimming should be done as early as possible, so that the lactation period can begin. Firstly, it will become a natural habit in the future, and secondly, it can also prevent the female cat’s breasts from being scratched.

Bathing, using a hair dryer and drying box should also be done as early as possible. I usually give them a bath around 40 days ago. Even if they are quickly dried in the drying box, I will blow them with a hairdryer a few times. < /p>

Let it remember this feeling, because for long-haired cats, you must use a hair-pulling machine or a water blower or a hair dryer when washing. You can't see what comes out of the drying box.

Regarding the exact time when a kitten can take a bath, this is not fixed and generally depends on the kitten’s condition.

​But the node I gave is that when you can eat canned food or cat food,

If the kitten is healthy at this time, it is completely okay to take a bath.

Most of the good bathing habits of kittens are developed when they are young, so they are very important.

"When a kitten is born, do you give it a bath?"

I can only give it a "get out", which is simply misleading.

Regarding cats who plan to compete in competitions in the future, one of the skills they need to acquire when they are young is to get used to riding in cars, so you can start training with them in two or three months.

First take it for a drive for 10 minutes, and then cycle it six or seven times, gradually extending the time, and the habit will become natural. There is no special method.

After training like this, your stress response will become smaller when you ride in a car or something.

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Finally, I would like to emphasize that heredity, heredity, heredity!

When buying a cat, be sure to ask what the parents’ personalities are like. What’s in the genes is really important.

Many people understand that cats are relatively aloof animals and ignore people.

In fact, cats with good personalities and stable genetics will be as clingy as some dogs.

Some of them will make you upset.

However, the master is still happy in his heart.

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