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Feral cat is an un-owned domestic cat

• bserge 6y ago
  I think "feral" here refers to cats completely unaccustomed to humans. I know from experience that they will run away or bite and scratch the shit out of you until you back off, and they have no interest in getting to know you. If you give them food, they'll wait until you're gone, then take it and run. I guess not many people have witnessed them. They're not sick, that's just how they are. They probably can get accustomed to humans after a while, but it would definitely take longer than with feral dogs.
  • sitkack 6y ago
    I have owned, if you can call it that, a couple ex feral cats. One we only managed to pickup a couple times. And if it was feeling really social it might hang out within 2-5 meters. And it was constantly aware and would run if anything unexpected happened. In this case, I think it was both feral and treated poorly, so that made its behavior even more un housecat like. They do feel rather wild, and it is interesting to see how shallow domestication really is, even in ourselves.
• wut42 6y ago
  As bserge said, it was what I was referring to. But maybe theses abandonned cats, over a couple generation, still get the "socialization" ? I have no idea to be honest. I was referring to herds of cats in Russia or some other country, saw a documentary about it a couple of years ago -- they developed quite a society.
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