Besides Angora and Persian cats, it seems that keeping jungle cats is experiencing a pretty good trend right now. Beautiful fur patterns and fierce faces, seem to be some of the reasons Indonesian cat lovers keep them.
The jungle cat breed is a pet breed for middle to upper-class people because to keep it you need to get a license from the government. In addition, you also have to have more money, because the price is quite expensive and is guided by the cost of maintenance and forest cat food which is quite expensive.
Tips for Feeding Forest Cats to Be Healthy and Not Die
To give jungle cat food should not be arbitrary, you must provide food according to its natural conditions, which is fresh meat. Can be pieces of chicken or other animals.
The point is you shouldn’t give packaged cat food to your newly purchased jungle cat.
Therefore, this cat is indeed included in the category of pets that are quite expensive. Because for the food alone you have to spend a lot of money every day.
However, you can get around this by mixing fresh meat with a little packaged food whose ingredients are almost all meat.
Or other packaged food. The important thing is to mix a little bit. If the jungle cat is still hooked and has no problems. Keep repeating and increasing the dose of food, until the ratio is sufficient.
Maybe you can increase the mixture from 90:10 until finally after a few weeks it becomes 50:50 (50% fresh meat: 50% packaged food).
Obviously if in the process of mixing food, the cat experiences health problems, immediately stop and return the jungle cat food with fresh meat only. Because keeping a jungle cat is prone to death. And if that’s the case, it’s unfortunate.
It’s better to give good food even though it’s quite expensive than having to lose the cat.
Tips for Keeping Jungle Cats So Cats Don’t Stress
How to care for a jungle cat, indeed, should not be equated with how to care for ordinary cats. Because forest cats are more prone to stress and death than ordinary cats.
In addition, to feed, you certainly have to pay attention to several other aspects to keep the jungle cat at home and stay alive normally.
But the thing to remember is to buy a jungle cat legally, not illegally. Anyway, buy the letters, so that later you are not arrested by the police for having this animal.
Now that you’re sure you’ve bought a legal animal. If not a protected jungle cat, then you can later focus on keeping the animal.
Here are some tips on raising and caring for jungle cats that you can try to apply in raising your favorite cat:
Buy a Small One
Why should it be small? So that it can be tame and easy to adjust to you. Usually, animals that have been cared for since childhood, tend to bond with their masters as adults.
But keep in mind don’t buy it when it’s still a baby, at least a few months old. because if it’s too baby. Even vulnerable to death, because the body is still vulnerable.
Choose a tamed jungle cat
Now that the jungle cat must be innately wild, try to choose a cat that is already the umpteenth generation. The point is the higher the generation, the more likely the tame.
In the process of raising wildlife, it is better not to keep animals that are still in the 1st generation. Because their instincts are still very wild and quite dangerous when they grow up.
The 1st generation means that the mother is a native jungle cat caught in the forest. So it must still be fierce, although it can be held, it can be savage at any time.
While the cubs later the 1st generation were born in captivity and have since babies lived in different conditions with their mothers. And usually tamer than the mother.
Later after the 1st generation has a child, the child becomes the 2nd generation. And usually will be more docile than the 1st generation. And so on the point is the more the order of generations. It is likely to be more docile and adaptable to humans.
Forest Cat Feeding
Now for feeding, of course, you should use fresh meat. Not packaged food that is widely sold out there. The point is as I said above in tips on feeding jungle cats.
Prepare a special cage
When you first buy, you should not immediately let it roam, but put it in a large enough cage, and once – take it out and play with it to avoid stress.
Because jungle cats are nocturnal animals, so when night falls, don’t let your cat roam freely, let alone leave the house.
Also, pay attention to the surrounding animals. Because jungle cats have high hunting instincts, of course, you should not let around the cat’s environment there are birds or chickens that you keep. Because it is feared that the cat will be preyed upon
Actively check his health condition
Because this is a fairly expensive cat, you should routinely check the cat’s health at the nearest veterinarian clinic. Especially if the cat has started to lose appetite or something.
Then immediately check to the nearest veterinary clinic.
