Why can't I tame my ocelot? [duplicate]

I'm trying to make a cat house for my zoo on Minecraft. I have some untamed ocelots and I also want a few tamed ocelots. Fish only puts them in breeding mode.

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Best Answer

From the "Ocelot" page on the wiki:

Taming

An ocelot can be tamed by attracting it to the player with an uncooked fish of any kind, then fed the fish, which can turn it into one of three breeds of Cat that will then follow the player. Taming an ocelot is likely to take more than one fish.

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Breeding

When tamed cats are fed raw fish, they will immediately enter "breed-mode"

Ocelots will only enter breeding mode if they have been tamed. This means you have already tamed your cats!

By looking at your cat you can see if they have been tamed. If they look like this they have not been tamed:

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When you tame a cat, they will turn into one of three breeds of cat, and look like this:

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You can also check if they have been tamed by right clicking on your cat, they will sit down if they have been tamed.

If you want to know how to tame an Ocelot I recommend you read this article. It explains it really well and I guarantee it will help you.

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Why can you not tame ocelots anymore?

Ocelots now seek and attack baby turtles. Ocelots and cats have been split into their own separate mobs. Ocelots can no longer be tamed. Ocelots can now gain trust for the player by being fed fish.

Can you turn an ocelot into a cat 2021?

Ocelots are a passive mob in Minecraft. They have a spawn egg and otherwise spawn only in Jungle Biomes. Ocelots, upon seeing the player move too quickly, will run off. With Raw Fish, Raw Salmon, Clownfish or Pufferfish, they can be tamed into Cats.

How do you tame an ocelot in 2021?

How to Tame an Ocelot in Minecraft

Go fishing in a lake or river and collect at least 20 raw fish (raw cod or salmon).

Go to a jungle biome and find an ocelot. ...

Hold the raw fish in your hand until it comes up to you.

Feed the raw fish to the ocelot. ...

Keep feeding the ocelot fish until red hearts appear over its head.

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