What I used from wowhead. I forgot to mention that you should be sneaking up on a sleeping cat, apologies.
Since 8.3, I have only had success taming them while they were sleeping, as the awake ones will bug out after throwing the meat and still give that ‘shimmers’ error. Also I had the most success taming one that was on the cliffside across from the Varga cave entrance. These are not as clustered as the ones inside the cave, so there is less chance to aggro nearbies. With that out of the way, the steps are as follows:
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Unequip your weapon
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Cast Camouflage, and get up close to a sleeping cat
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Throw the meat to land directly underneath its mouth
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Quickly cast Tame Beast before you pull aggro
Using this method, I have successfully tamed the Pink, Indigo, Fel-Green, Violet, and Silver-Blue color variants. No need for Freezing trap or Feign Death. Happy hunting!
Edit: Sleeping yellow panthara at 61.16/ 63.00 Krokuun