Tips on how to help your fearful cats to be more stromnng and comfortable

When I first met "Smoochie" on the street, the Little Brown tabby looked at me with dilated pupils, hair on end, her back arched and her tail twice the size of thin tired. She looked petrified and indecisive, unsure whether to run or fall. Then, after we rescued her, she will not come to me. She ate carefully, constantly looks left to right. She was scared, but not just because I had won. Perhaps he was afraid of frightening experience in her past.
While cats have to be afraid to respond to potentially dangerous situations, some cats are more shy or afraid of the unknown and non-threatening than others. They can hide, lose to other people, new cats or other animals, or aggressive. As a result, they may not appear very nice. However, this does not mean they can not or will not change and the more relaxed and friendly ... with a little help from you.
Confusion and anxiety in cats tend to be primarily the result of frightening experience. Although these bad experiences make a big impression on the cats during the critical phase of development (from approximately 2-7 weeks), after such experiences can be traumatic. Like humans, cats must learn that they are accepted, belong, and may depend on these conditions. They must learn to associate humans, animals and other objects without life with something positive and entertaining - non-threatening - so they become more sociable.
Of course, prevention is always better than cure. But if you're not kitty cat hood, given the frequent and love handle, high exposed to positive social situations in the first seven weeks, you can only use counter-conditioning methods, patience, perseverance, love and understanding - and food - to help at work in fear or shame them.
Desensitization a scared cat mainly used the same procedure as desensitizing a child who is afraid of cats, except that it probably will not use food to attract and reward the child in the presence of feared object or person. General, you want your cat to experience something positive that will see the object at a distance feared. For exposure to be beneficial, it is necessary to keep the cat in the object. You can do this by letting it to a harness and leash or carrier. In a gradual process, approaching the feared object while enjoying something beautiful cat. Following these guidelines, we helped "Smoochie" feel more comfortable, confident and safe with me. In fact, now she is a "company-ahole," often dogging my heels for a belly rub. Of course, not all cats to recover as much or as quickly as others. But cats can cause anxiety and timid life much happier if it will help tame their fears and become more sociable. This is a win-win situation.