Touch porcelain stray cat
Friend's house
Weibo/Douban/and other online adoption channels.
Idle fish/flower and bird fish market/friends circle selling cats
Pet shop
A place where cats are kept
Please click to enter a picture description.
1. Stray cats.
If you wander around, it depends on luck and fate. There are generally stray cats in the community. If you like them, you can try to contact them, feed them and take them home after a while! What should this cat pay attention to? Remember to go to a reliable pet doctor for a physical examination after returning home, and then you need to get a vaccine to repel insects.
Advantages: the cost is relatively low (relatively speaking, it doesn't save money because of a serious illness)
Disadvantages: few options; Physical condition is unknown, and follow-up physical examination is needed. It is more troublesome to raise cats, ringworm and ear mites. Secondly, the personality problem, statistically speaking, stray cats will be more naughty than breed cats, and may not be as good as breed cats. (Probability, not all).
P.S. Not everyone has the luck to meet a favorite wandering cutie ~ so this is very personal.
2. A friend's cat.
A friend/neighbor's cat has just given birth to a litter of kittens (not to mention broken ears here), so it can be paid to you for free or less. This also depends on fate. What should I pay attention to if I close my eyes and want to take it home? Same as above, deworming, physical examination. If possible, it is best to know the living conditions of parents and even grandparents of cats, mainly physical conditions, polycystic kidney disease, cardiomyopathy, etc ... but it is generally difficult to know. It's best to bring home kittens over 3 months old so as to survive. Don't leave the mother cat too early.
Advantages: the same as 1, the relative cost is low (it doesn't save money when you are seriously ill); My friend's family knows more about the living environment of kittens.
Disadvantages: the physical condition is unknown, which requires follow-up physical examination, and there may be skin diseases such as tinea felis and ear mites.
3. Online adoption channels such as Weibo/Douban/.
In Weibo, Douban, friends circle and so on, people often send kittens for adoption. There are many labels in Weibo that are # adopted instead of purchased. You can search for kittens with close eyes in the same city (province) and communicate with adopters. For example, "Shenzhen Adoption" can be found in many places. In the north, long hair that is often adopted is very cute, while long hair in the south is rare.
Advantages: the relative cost is relatively low, and generally, the early physical examination and deworming vaccine have been done at the adopter; Secondly, there will be many cats adopted in the same city, and there may be cute people who like to close their eyes; You can also get some guidance from the adopter at the beginning of raising a cat.
Disadvantages: As far as cats are concerned, most of them are rescued stray cats, just like the personality problems mentioned in 1. Of course, there are many relatives, but the probability of being relatives, cats or relatives is low. As far as people are concerned, the adoption conditions listed by many adopters are harsh, and it is reasonable and acceptable to forget the basic operations such as window sealing and natural food. Some will ask for a local house, a stable job, a copy of their ID cards, or a visit to a cat. Not everyone can accept these conditions, so it involves the adopter's own choice.
4. Idle fish/flower and bird fish market/friends circle selling cats
This situation is very complicated. There are two main types. One is the continuous sale of all kinds of cats. We call such people cat dealers. What people usually call the backyard. Give a chestnut, as shown below.
Please click to enter a picture description.
This kind of cat sells all kinds of cats. There is no doubt that cat dealers must choose this kind carefully. As for the reason
The health condition is seriously worrying, cat plague, abdominal transmission, nasal branches, cat ringworm, backyard N-piece set as standard. The pictures of cats are seriously inconsistent. You can use Baidu's backyard cat. Their living conditions are extremely bad. They live in groups and are kept in cages. Cats will be in estrus and pregnant all their lives ... if you are interested, you can Baidu yourself.
Have you saved money? Not really! It takes a lot of energy and money to see a doctor. Cat tinea and ear mites are all good, and cat plague can't be recovered when it reaches the abdomen. Both the cat and the money are empty. Don't think that you made a profit by buying a variety of cats at the price of 1000-2000, and don't bet that you are lucky enough to receive a healthy cat ... receiving a sick cat is uncomfortable for both people and cats.
So, don't buy cats wholesale by cat dealers.
There is another category, individual sellers. Similar to the blue and white nest in China, here refers to the real individual seller, not the fake domestic cat dealer. This kind of cat can be seen at home, and the price is not particularly high, similar to the cat of the second friend's house. However, I know no more about it than my friend's cat.
Advantages: the price of breed cats is relatively low, so you can see cats in the same city before making a decision.
Disadvantages: For a cat, health should be considered here. If you don't know the family gene, will you be a close relative? Could it be a family with high incidence of hcm? Will you carry pkd polycystic kidney? Perhaps readers will think that there are so many cats, where there are so many sick cats, and so many wild cats are not doing well. In fact, the more you raise a cat, the more you feel that the kitten is really fragile ... Only the incidence of hcm (cat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) in rural cats is as high as 15%.
cat tinea
Please click to enter a picture description.
5. Pet store
Many people buy cats impulsively when they see cute cats in pet shops.
Lovely furry animals can always arouse people's desire to spend money. ...
Most cats in pet shops are collected from all over the world. It's expensive to sell. So, is it worth it?
Pet shops are generally mixed with cats and dogs, and the environment is noisy. Cats are basically kept in cages. This living environment is very unfavorable to cats. There are countless news reports that they died a few days later ... They look lively and lovely in the pet store, and they will have tinea, ear mites and even cat plague when they are brought home. ...
There are countless cats in a week.
Please click to enter a picture description.
So,
Advantages: you can see the cat. It's gone.
Disadvantages: may carry diseases, poor resistance and high price. ...
5. Cat house
When it comes to a cat house, we should also distinguish whether it is a regular cat house.
I think the following are the most basic conditions for a regular cat house:
The number and density of cats are reasonable.
The environment of the cat house is clean and hygienic, and daily video pictures can show the environment.
Reasonable deworming, vaccine
Breeding rights are not easily given to individuals.
The interval between the two offspring of breeding cats is reasonable.
At least natural food feeding.
Of course, there are also many people who are actually breeding in the backyard under the guise of cat houses ... we need to distinguish them and refer to them.
Tortoise: Do I have a cat in the backyard? What is a backyard cat? How do you know if it's a regular cat house? What's the difference between backyard and cat house?
Please click to enter a picture description.
Then back to the topic, cats in regular cat houses can ensure that there are no diseases such as cat plague, ear mites and tinea. , and generally more than 4 months. It's more worry-free to bring it home. Of course, the price is also the most expensive, no matter what kind, it is generally above 5000. Because of the cost of keeping a cat, the daily feeding in the cat house, the cost of going to the hospital for examination, the cost of sterilization and so on. Therefore, the author does not agree that expensive cats are IQ taxes. The cost of raising cats is rising, and the keepers of cat houses should also eat reasonably. ...
However, even a regular cat house cannot guarantee that there will be no diseases such as cardiomyopathy and cat-borne abdomen in the future. Cats, like people, will face various diseases and unknown hidden dangers ... It can only be said that regular cat houses can be avoided to a greater extent, and there are no skin diseases such as tinea felis and ear mites, so it is easier for novices to raise cats. In addition, cats in regular cat houses have lived with keepers since childhood, and their personalities have been screened from generation to generation, making their kinship more stable.
So, for an ordinary cat house:
Advantages: Ensure health to the greatest extent, have a caring personality, have received triple antibodies from cats, and the resistance level is OK.
Disadvantages: expensive; Many formal cat houses are lined up instead of keeping cats, so it takes a long time to wait; Need to carefully screen the regular cat house
Conclusion:
What suits you is the most important thing.
After all, cats will accompany you for many years ~
If you really want to raise a cat that your relatives can easily get used to, if you have a budget → suggest a formal cat house.
If you don't care about the variety → suggest adoption or small wandering in the community.
If you want to keep a certain kind of cat → suggest a regular cat house.
Want to raise a variety of cats, but the budget is insufficient → you can pay attention to retired adopted cats in regular cat houses, or straight-haired cats in curly cat houses, long-legged cats in short-legged cat houses, vertical-eared cats in folding cat houses and other kittens with relatively low prices.
I wish everyone is the most suitable little cute! !
Please click to enter a picture description.