Originally Posted by
syphil
Anyone in this thread claiming to have tamed an "adult feral cat" actually found a house cat who escaped and became an outdoor cat. They encountered the cat and took him or her in, and then proclaim to themselves "look at me, guys! I tamed a feral kitty."
You didn't. You merely re-homed a once house-cat turned street-cat.
If kittens aren't handled by humans and turn feral as adolescents, there's no going back.
Source: me. Worked on a farm for many years. There's house cats. There's barnyard cats. And then there are feral cats. The difference between house cats and feral cats are miles apart. Feral cats act like freaking raccoons.