On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:21:20 +0000, Jean Hobbs wrote:

I did once hear that it takes three generations for the ferral to
finally become socialised.dont know if thats true or not.

Not true, and if it were, where are the second and third generations going
to come from anyway?

Actually, it varies with the cat. When I trapped each of them, two of my
cats were feral juveniles (one, Phoenix, at about 14 weeks of age; the
other, Marie, at about 20 weeks of age) and the third, Lucas, was a hard -
i.e. never socialized - stray, estimated to be 2-3 years old at the time.

All three are completely socialized to me, but the reactions to strangers
vary. Phoenix finds the farthest place to hide. The other two will be
wary, but can be made friends with without too much trouble. Marie, in
particular, is easy to approach, and you would never think that she was
born an n-th generation feral. But she has an eartip to prove it.

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