Make Friends with Your New Pet Cat

If you've got a new pet cat, you might want to make friends with it so that it'll know and trust you. Making friends with your new pet cat is not as difficult as climbing Mount Everest. Read on to find out how to get your new cat to know and trust you, and learn how to make friends with it!

Steps

 * 1) Be upbeat. Cats do not love grumpiness in humans. Talk to your cat cheerfully and happily, and do not frown at it too much. Cats will like you if you talk happily. [[Image:Cat going to litter tray when annoyed.jpg|center|399px]]
 * 2) Act nicely. Don't hurt your cat or be mean to it. Instead, pet it and reward it whenever it is good. [[Image:Catbiscuittreat.jpg|center|394px]]
 * 3) Spend time with your cat. Don't be too busy to "bother" talking to it. Choose a time to relax with your cat, stroke it and give it attention. If you are going away on a holiday, give your cat to somebody else so that it is not lonely and hungry and it will be grateful to you. [[Image:Going_awaysuitcase.jpg|center|399px]]
 * 4) Don't leave it out of things. Of course, you can't take it everywhere, you need privacy too, but don't leave it out of too many things, like playing a game with it or doing something that it can take part in. Invite it to games and other things it can come to, otherwise it might be sad. [[Image:TCMI_beaded_board_game_3.jpg|center|393px]]
 * 5) Understand your cat. Try to learn the ways it "talks" to you and how is asks you for things, like when it is hungry or thirsty. [[Image:Cat wet food.jpg|center|410px]]
 * 6) Don't be mean or rough with it. Treat it nicely, without hurting it. Don't press the brush into its body when you are brushing it. [[Image:Catbrush.jpg|center|406px]]
 * 7) Play with your cat. Especially if it is a kitten, cats usually enjoy playing. Playing is a good way for you to make friends with your cat/kitten. [[Image:Toy Racing Car, Pillsbury Grands Car.jpg|center|399px]]
 * 8) Don't forget about it. Remember to give it food and water. If you keep forgetting, your cat may not want to be friends with you, thinking that you don't care about it. If you do remember, your cat will be happy and know that you care about it and remember that it exists, too. [[Image:Catfood1.jpg|center|394px]]

Tips

 * Stroke the cat when you have free time, as well as in your stroking time.
 * Find the spot where your cat loves being stroked the most. Then your cat will enjoy it when you come and have stroking time.

Warnings

 * Do not bother or annoy the cat.
 * Try not to lose your temper when you are around it, or it might become afraid of you.

Related wikiHows

 * Make Friends With a Stray Cat
 * Get a Cat to Be Your Friend
 * Help Cats Become Friends
 * Be a Friend With Cats
 * Befriend a New Cat
 * Get a Cat to Like You
 * Befriend a Wild Cat or Kitten

Sources and Citations

 * Whitehead, Sarah. How to Speak Cat. Scholastic Nonfiction, 2008.