Originally posted by Jennsen
Their behavior and attitude has alot to do with their genetics. I've had cats that were raised by their mother and myself handling them from birth, and they were hard to deal with as adults. I have one right now, Max who's 15 yrs old, and he hates people, he wouldnt let anyone, including myself, pet him until a couple of years ago. He would flip around and bite! When he was about 2yrs I picked him up and he bit through my bottom lip. He was raised by his mother. So it just depends on their blood line.
I read a while back about a study of cat genetics, and feral lines. This seems quite true also, but the researchers found that kittens sired by a human friendly tom cat tend to be much more social toward humans even if raised on a bottle, whereas kittens sired by very feral toms are not as affectionate. As many know several different tom cats can father one litter of kittens due to the way a cat's uterus is set up. I have had litters come through here that have very human friendly babies, and some in the same litter that just don't warm up no matter what! I thought that was very interesting. Keep on rescuing those street waifs everyone, and ignore the ignorant comments from vets and people who claim to be 'in the know'! We know better. This is not the article I had read before, but another one I came across not long ago.....http://www.messybeast.com/paternal.htm