Adorable little invasive species, destroyer of gardens. Just found this guy asleep on my dragonfruit vine.

I wouldn’t consider it “exceptions” when it’s exceedingly common. Just because that’s your take on it, personally, doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the overall consensus.

Growing up I worked with several rescue groups that strictly focused on taming, neutering, and adopting out feral cats. I saw HUNDREDS (not exaggerating here) feral cats, that were slowly tamed and turned into house/family cats.

I live in an area with lots of feral cats, & outside of the work I did with the rescue groups, I’ve personally tamed + homed 22 feral cats (and counting) over the years.

I’m currently “working on” two ferals, one of which was fairly easy to tame (took about 2 weeks of consistency) & the other is definitely harder to convince, but he’s slowly but surely coming around.

It takes a lot of work, and a lot of consistency, but it’s rewarding in the end.

What you describe simply isn’t true as a generalized statement, I’d have to disagree, and so would be vet who I’ve had lengthy conversations with on the matter, and so would the rescue groups I’ve worked with that focus on ferals.

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