Get a Stray Cat to Live with You

Have you ever seen a stray cat and wanted it to live with you! Well now you can!

Steps

 * 1)  Leave a bowl of food or water where the cat usually comes. This will lure the cat towards your house. Milk and cream is a well known to bring in cats. Most cats will prefer jelly type meals.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 1.jpg|center]]
 * 2)  Repeat 2 or 3 times. This will make the cat more used to coming to your house and will make them more used to coming round your area to eat food. You may have to repeat more if the cat doesn't come close enough. Change it every so often.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 2.jpg|center]]
 * 3) Leave your back door open and put the food inside your house. This will encourage the cat to come inside and inspect its new surroundings. If it doesn't come inside, try putting it just on your doorstep and carefully move it day by day.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 3.jpg|center]]
 * 4)  Try to pick the cat up. If the cat struggles or tries to get away, let it go and try again the next day. Don't come stomping up to the cat but carefully almost tip-toe to it and pick it up carefully and calmly.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 4.jpg|center]]
 * 5)  Make it a bed. If it wants to stay, make a bed out of a bed/blanket. Wicker baskets are also useful things for cats to sleep in and its more likely that it will sleep in a basket.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 5.jpg|center]]
 * 6)  The next day make sure the cat doesn't belong to someone already. You don't want to be stealing someone's cat! Ask neighbors if the cat is theirs or if they know where it came from. Also, found posters would help.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 6.jpg|center]]
 * 7)  If it doesn't belong to anybody, take it to a vet. Just to make sure the cat doesn't have any fleas or a disease.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 7.jpg|center]]
 * 8)  Love the cat! Name it, cuddle it and stroke it. Make it feel like home.[[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 8.jpg|center]]
 * 9)  Enjoy! Have fun with your stray and take good care of it. Make sure you actually want to keep this cat. [[Image:Get a Stray Cat to Live with You Step 9.jpg|center]]

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGGROWiZlg

Tips

 * Feed it often.
 * Make sure that the cat has everything it needs.
 * Stroking it a lot will make the cat more used to you.
 * Letting the cat sleep next to your bed will comfort them more.

Warnings

 * If you have other pets, make sure you keep them away from the cat for a while.
 * If you can't have the cat make sure you give it to an animal shelter like:
 * Wood green
 * The cat may be a little bit too playful sometimes.

Related wikiHows

 * Earn the Trust of a Stray Cat
 * Take in a Stray Cat
 * Handle a Stray Cat
 * Gain a Cat's Trust