Instincts of a Hunter

In nature, hunting is the first activity of the felines. And of all types of cats, those from farms are the champions, maybe because they have more opportunities. They tell that a British cat named Mickey, hunted 1,000 rodents per year during his 23 years of life. There aren't many cats that can live for so too much time nor to have so much energy, but, in general, farm cats are specialist in maintaining rodents on line.

The hunting instinct lasts
Traditionally, farmers use to leave their cats in hunger to make them hunt, although the truth is that a cat that feels at home in its farm for being this the place in which he finds food and warmth, tends to hunt on the nearest territory, no matter if he is hungry, due that if he were he would go to hunt farther always on the woods or the fields.

The reality of life of a domestic cat is that hunting doesn't suppose a necessity for their survival. But even so, the hunting instinct is there and must be satisfied every now and then in anyway they can for their life to be plentiful and pleasant.

Mothers teach their kittens to hunt since a very young age. On the wild world, where mothers are the ones that catch the preys that the youngsters feed on, the pressure makes them encourage their offspring to hunt for themselves as soon as possible.

The fast development that they experiment with their hunting abilities also on the domestic surroundings is without a doubt an echo of this urgency.

Very soon, the diet of the kittens will depend exclusively from what they are capable of hunting alone; from there the necessity to learn as son as possible.

Outside the domestic environment, when 5 or 6 months of age, the feline must know how to feed himself or he will die, so there is no time to loose.