Five prejudices about cats from the animal shelter - and what's really wrong with them. “It is simply not true that all animals have behavioral problems.
Most of them aren’t,” says Dr. Eva-Maria Natzer, head of the Munich animal shelter. Many shelter cats grew up in normal families and were socialized and trained there. It is of course true that older animals tend to be more likely to struggle with illness than when someone takes in a kitten from a breeder.