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Re: Taming a feral cat? and Keeping a caged cat?
(Anonymous) 2013-06-10 04:19 am (UTC)(link)At first, only fed him by giving him chunks of food with our hands (he was mainly scared, not vicious, so we didn't have to worry about getting bitten). I'm not really sure how much that helped, but I think he at least learned that humans might actually not hurt him. He was still scared of humans and liked hiding.
I think what really helped in his case was that we had three other cats, one of which he adored. He could relax around them, even if a human was there and eventually let us stroke him when he was lying next to another cat. I guess we were just lucky we had a bit of a pack of cats.
He was also willing to forget most things around him when he was eating (like I said, he had been abandoned by his mother and had gone hungry for at least a few days before we adopted him and probably even before that), so we could carefully touch him while he was eating (I know you're not supposed to do that, but we watched him closely and stopped if he got uncomfortable and I think it helped making him a bit tamer.)
Letting him sniff our hands (like another commenter suggested) also helped, as did only touching him very lightly and not on his head like other cats usually enjoy, he only flinched away from that. And of course, lots and lots of patience.
I'm afraid we never truely got him tame. Just when he was finally starting to get calmer and even start purring when we stroked him (still with his eyes tightly shut, probably so that he could imagine it was another cat) at about 4-5 years of age, he was shot by our neighbour who thought it was one of his own cats (DON'T get me started on that).
So I'm afraid I don't really have a lot of general advice, just the example of worked with our little guy. Perhaps look at which situations your cat is calmer in and try working with that. Good luck!