Feral and fearful cats and kittens in animal shelters are not likely to be adopted as companion animals because they emit fearful or aggressive behaviors in the presence of humans. The purpose of the fearful to friendly (F2F) research was to investigate a shaping procedure to increase friendly behaviors of feral and fearful domestic cats and kittens with the goal of achieving animal shelters’ adoptability criteria. The results showed the F2F procedure was a safe and very effective procedure to quickly tame feral kittens deemed unadoptable. The day after implementing F2F, three out of four kittens approached me and accepted petting and holding without any additional training.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc149657 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Rentfro, Angela Drake |
| Contributors | Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus, Ingman, Stanley, Pinkston, Jonathan |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Rentfro, Angela Drake, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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