I’m sure that most people have heard the loud roar of wild cats outside in the middle of the night, the sound is heart-piercing, people can hear, can’t help feeling, what is going on that will let the cats Such a painful scream.
There is another saying that you should never go out when you hear a cat barking in the middle of the night. Then there are various folk tales. Regardless of whether these folk tales are right or wrong, good or bad, the core is to know why cats are meowing outside in the middle of the night. The call keeps going.
In the first case, the cat is in heat.
There are a lot of stray cats and wild cats in various communities. Many of these cats are second-generation stray cats and have not undergone sterilization at all. In this way, a kitten is probably 6~8 after birth. When they are six months old, male cats and female cats are fertile, so when they become sexually mature, they are sending signals to cats of the opposite sex. In addition, most of them are active at night, so they call non-stop in the middle of the night. At this time, the cat’s piercing cry is actually to meet his physiological needs, which is what we often say is having spring, also called estrus. The cat’s estrus period is periodic, so we can often hear It is actually quite normal for stray cats to bark in the middle of the night outside the community.
In the second case, cats are hungry.
Most stray cats guard the trash can, pick up all kinds of garbage discarded by humans and pick out the edible parts, as the main way of survival, and occasionally do not make some bugs or Small animals such as mice are used as supplementary food. However, most cats now live in the city as a stray life, and it is not guaranteed that they can get food every day. Especially after sorting garbage, it is more difficult for cats to obtain a stable food supply. , So most cats often go hungry. Some cats can’t stand it anymore. They will make a painful cry in the middle of the night. Actually it probably means "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm starving to death "! In fact, this sounds very exaggerated, but it is true that some cats used this method to successfully attract some caring humans during the day, sprinkle some cat food, or buy a ham sausage. This happened. After that, as time passed, the cat also understood that by selling miserables to gain human sympathy, but he did not have a human sense of time, so it is normal for him to often scream in the middle of the night.
In the third case, the cat is sick.
Any kind of sentient life cannot bear the torture of illness, but it must also go through the inevitable stage of birth, old age, sickness and death. The cat is no exception. Once injured or infected with a serious illness, before the final death , I will also do a screaming struggle. This sounds really sad and cruel, but life is indeed so fragile, and the reality is so cruel. No one can give a stray cat a systematic guarantee of the life system, so this It was a cry in the middle of the night, and a sign that the cat announced to the world that it was ready to leave.
Don’t go out when you hear a cat barking in the middle of the night. This sentence actually makes sense from some perspectives. The cat is in heat, but in fact, you can’t help him at all. You may even disturb his Yaxing and affect him. A chance to get a partner, the cat is hungry, and you don’t have a place to find food for him in the middle of the night, unless you also have a cat in your house, you can go out and sprinkle some cat food, but at this time it is easy to stun the cat. When you look for it It was gone again when it was time, so the most effective way is to spread a handful of cat food far away after hearing this call, and then go back to the house to sleep.
If the cat is sick, you may be able to help in some ways, but this also requires some professional means and courage. At least you have the ability to catch it and send it to a pet hospital, and then It is a very caring thing to bear other medical expenses and it is worth promoting!
