Nowadays, most domestic pet cats live a life of opening their mouths for food and reaching for clothes. However, some instincts have been severely degraded, such as catching mice. In the absence of survival pressure, cats as pets are reluctant to catch dirty and ferocious rats. But if one day there is a rat infestation in your home, you need a cat to step forward and solve the problem for you. It takes a thousand days to raise an army, but it takes only a moment. Owners may wish to train their cats more in peacetime.

1. Let cats know their enemies step by step

If a cat is too young, it will not only be unable to catch mice, but will also be bitten to death by mice. When the cat’s body bones, legs and feet develop, it can begin to train the cat to catch mice. When training a cat to catch mice at the beginning, the requirements should not be too harsh, and the training should be carried out from easy to difficult. The owner can first use a mouse trap to catch one, then tie the mouse tightly with a wire and throw it in front of the cat so that it can play with it, but it is best not to let it eat. There are too many bacteria on the mouse, which can easily make the cat sick. This will take a long time. Over time, cats will take the initiative to catch mice instead of eating them.

2. Closed training to deepen instinct

After the cat becomes familiar with the mouse, you can put the mouse and the cat in the same closed environment, and let the cat stay hungry with the mouse. First, let the cat learn how to chase mice, and then in the actual chasing and catching process, slowly let the cat learn how to ambush, sneak up on, and jump to catch mice. As the training time prolongs, the training environment space can be appropriately enlarged, and some obstacles can be set up in the training space to allow pet cats to experience the fun of real hunting and further improve the cat's ability to catch mice.

3. Imitate mother cats in teaching kittens

When the cat has certain hunting skills, it can be put into the yard for catching training. At the beginning, you should follow the mother cat's method of limiting the mouse's movement ability (such as breaking a leg), and then let the kitten catch the mouse. Then slowly restore the mouse's movement ability and gradually increase the cat's catching difficulty until the cat can If you successfully catch the mouse, you are done.

It should be noted that mice often carry many parasites and infectious bacteria. Cats must not be allowed to eat mice. The most important thing is that it can act as a deterrent to keep mice away from your home.