How to Tame a Cat in Minecraft

If you want tame a cat in Minecraft, here’s what you need to do.

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Last Updated: April 11th, 2022

Minecraft is all about building yourself homes and having fun creating things. You can have your own home or farm with pets, and the best way to have some company is by taming a stray cat. While taming is easy, the game does not specify how to get a pet cat. If you want tame a cat in Minecraft, here’s what you need to do.

Where to Find Cats in Minecraft?

If you want to tame a cat in Minecraft, you need to find a stray cat while exploring. Cats are quite easy to find and heading to villages is the easiest way to get one. As long as a village has at least one villager and four beds, you will find a cat. The more beds there are in a village, the more cats you will find with a maximum of ten cats per village.

Heading into large villages is the best way to find a cat that you want to pick up. If you are specifically looking for black cats, you will need to head to witch huts in swamps to find them. If you own Minecraft Bedrock Edition, black cats can also spawn when there is a full moon.

Taming Cats in Minecraft

The easiest way to tame a cat is by collecting some raw cod or salmon from nearby lakes and rivers. A lot of players think that offering any type of fish makes a cat happy but that is not true. You need to equip raw cod or salmon and slowly approach a cat so you don’t startle it. Begin taming the cat by offering it raw fish.

Once a cat starts eating the fish, continue to feed the cat until you see hearts spawn over its head. You will need to feed it multiple times if you want to tame a cat. We recommend stocking up on fish before approaching a cat to tame it, to save yourself time. Once you feed a cat enough, a collar will automatically appear around its neck and you will obtain a pet cat.