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1. How to bathe a cat?
? Get into the habit of cats taking a bath from an early age. Generally speaking, bathing cats can be done by one person, but sometimes it takes two people to cooperate when encountering naughty cats or cats without bathing habits.
? The suitable water temperature for cats to bathe is 30~35℃, and it is best not to burn their hands. Shallow water, don't drown the kitten. Drop a few drops of detergent in the water before washing. When taking a bath, put the cat in the basin. Don't push or throw it. Don't scare it. Then scrub from head to bottom. Be quick. Wash it as soon as possible. Rinse with water and dry with a dry towel. If it is a long-haired cat, don't use a bath towel, blow it with a hair dryer and comb it. Generally, indoor cats are washed 2~3 times a month, and outdoor cats are washed 1~2 times a month. This is because the oil on the cat's skin has a protective effect on the skin and hair. Too many baths will cause a lot of oil loss, which will make the cat's hair brittle and reduce the skin elasticity and resistance.
Pay attention to the following points when taking a bath:
1. 1 Keep the heat indoors to prevent cats from catching cold, especially in winter;
1.2 Let the cat do light exercise and urinate before bathing;
1.3 In order to prevent the bath water from entering the eyes and ears, you can squeeze the eye ointment into the eyelids of the kitten a little before taking a bath to play a preventive and protective role. Absorbent cotton balls will block the cat's ears and suck the water out of the external auditory canal after bathing;
1.4 Cats get their tails dirty most easily, especially male cats. Because there are secretions at the root of their tails, their tails are often stained with dirt. Use a toothbrush dipped in detergent and wash with warm water.
1.5 Don't bathe sick cats or unwell cats.
2. Why do cats comb their hair? How to comb your hair?
? Cats should comb their hair often, especially in spring and autumn, and change their hair more. Although cats often comb and lick their hair, they often swallow it by mistake. After a long time, they may form hairballs in the stomach. If this happens, cats can induce vomiting and spit out hairballs by eating grass and vegetables, which is a unique physiological regulation function of cats. But if some cats can't spit out hairballs and excrete them from their intestines, their lives will be in danger. Cat hair will also fall off with the epidermis and be polluted by dirt. If you don't comb it in time, fleas and lice will easily appear, causing skin diseases and infecting people.
? It is best to comb your hair 1 time every day, and insist on it since you were a kitten. At first, you can do it while the cat is sleeping, or you can divert your attention and comb your hair alone. After a long time, cats will form the habit of grooming, and understand that this is a kind of "care" for their owners and increase their feelings for people.
? There are two kinds of combs for combing hair: fine teeth and dense teeth. For the hair contaminated by paint, clean it up in time, comb it with your fingers, and comb it from the root to the tip with fine teeth. When combing your hair with a comb, first follow the hair, then vice versa, and then brush your head with a dense tooth comb. When a short-haired cat combs its hair, it is first wetted with water, then massaged to make the shed hair float, and then combed with a brush. Long-haired cats should be fully combed before taking a bath, remove the shedding hair, and then combed after washing.
3. How to care for cats' eyes and remove earwax?
? Cat's eye care is very important. Whether a pair of cat eyes are bright or not is an important sign of cat spirit. Cat's eyes are easily stained by gums, so you can gently wipe them with a cotton ball dipped in 2% boric acid aqueous solution. If the cat is allergic to boric acid, it can also be wiped with clean warm water.
Earwax in the cat's ear canal should be cleaned frequently. When cleaning earwax, you should disinfect the external auditory canal with 75% alcohol cotton ball first, and then soak the cotton ball with a little olive oil or ear oil to dry the earwax. After the earwax softens, gently remove the earwax that can be seen in the external auditory canal with tweezers. When taking earwax, don't stimulate the mucosa of the ear canal to prevent infection and form suppurative inflammation. If cats are found to have a lot of earwax, they often shake their heads or scratch their ears, so they should seek medical treatment in time.
4. How to trim a cat's paw?
Cat's paw refers to the paw of the forelimb, which has a hook at the front end and is very sharp. It is a weapon for cats to climb, prey or defend themselves. As a pet, you don't need excessively pointed toenails, you need to trim them frequently. Trimming toenails should also make them get into the habit, generally trimming 1~2 times a month. When pruning, hold the cat in your arms, fix one of the cat's limbs with your left hand, and gently press the tip of the cat's toe to open the cat's paw. Pay attention to cut off only the transparent horny part at the front end, and then polish it with emery cloth. If you cut it too short, it will hurt the toes, blood vessels and nerves of the cat. Generally, the hind limbs of the cat do not need to be trimmed.
5. How to manage cats when they go out?
As pets, owners sometimes take cats out. At this time, we should first take care of the cat to prevent it from running away or getting lost. You can put a towel or cloth head commonly used by cats in the cat equipment. When a cat is with something with its own smell, it will feel at ease.
If you need to take your cat out often, you need to prepare a special box. This box is easy to carry and accommodate cats. It is best to be comfortable and ventilated. Don't hold the cat in a handbag, schoolbag or soft cloth bag. These things make cats uncomfortable to curl up, easy to be squeezed and unsafe. When raising a cat, you should prevent the temperature of the box from being exposed to the sun for a long time in summer, and take measures to prevent cold and freeze in winter. You can add hot water bottles and cotton candy. If the journey is long, you should also consider the cat's diet and defecation. In order to carry it out, it is necessary to get used to living in cages from the time when kittens are young. Usually you can put the cage and the cat's nest together to make it familiar.
For the relocated kitten, it must be closed for a few days, and the cat can be familiar with the new house with its original cat nest, food basin and urinal before it can be replaced. If you really can't, take all the original things away, at least take some sand, sawdust and ashes from the last urinal and put them in the new urinal in the new house, so that when the cat looks for the urinal in the new house, it can quickly find the place arranged by its owner. If you need to take your cat out for a trip or a walk, you'd better prepare a collar or necklace for your cat. The collar should be made of stainless steel with adjustable tightness. The owner's address and name should be written on the collar or necklace, which is easy to identify and find after it is lost.
When the owner goes out and needs to leave the kitten with others, he should explain the cat's habits, diet, sleeping and playing methods, and at the same time take the cat's nest, utensils and toys with him so that the kitten can easily adapt to life elsewhere.
6. What preparations should the owner make for the cat when he leaves home for a short time?
When the owner goes out for a short trip and no one takes care of him at home, he should prepare enough dry food or semi-wet food for the cat food basin, put clean drinking water in a separate bowl and clean cat litter in the bedpan. But this time is very short, and cannot exceed 1~2 days.
7. What is the key to catching cats?
When catching a cat, the most common method is to hold the skin of the cat's neck and back with one hand, and hold the cat's waist or buttocks with the other hand, so that most of the cat's weight falls on the hand holding the buttocks. This is both safe and convenient.
To catch a new cat or wild cat, it is best to cooperate with two people, that is, one person grasps the skin of the cat's neck and back first, and the other person controls the cat's forelimbs and hind limbs with both hands to avoid scratching people.
8. How to feed the cat?
8. 1. Drug feeding: You can use a syringe with the needle removed to pour the medicine from the cat's mouth into its mouth. But be careful not to drink too much, lest the cat can't swallow it for a while. For the kitten, drink less. Swallowing too fast will suffocate the drug in the lungs and cause pneumonia. If possible, grab the cat by the neck to prevent the cat's head from swinging back and forth and spray the medicine everywhere.
8.2. Feeding pills and capsules: Let the cat sit on the horizontal surface opposite you, such as sitting on a table, with the cat's face facing your right. Hold the cat's head in your hand with your left hand. Push from both sides of the cat's upper jaw with your thumb and forefinger, and gently pull back the cat's head until the cat's nostrils are up. Keep this posture, then pry open the cat's lower teeth with your right hand to prevent the cat from closing its mouth, and then put pills or capsules on the cat's tongue base. In this case, cats generally don't resist.
Cats should take medicine according to the veterinarian's instructions, and don't give aspirin to cats, because this medicine is harmful to their stomachs.
9. How to care for sick cats?
Sick cats need to keep their bodies clean. You can wipe them with a wet towel and a little soft soap. For a cat that can't move, help it turn over several times a day to prevent bedsores.
Since most sick cats have no appetite, they can be lured with various foods. Generally, food with beef bone or liver flavor, baby meat food and nutritional cream can stimulate the appetite of sick cats.
For cats that can't feed themselves, they can be fed broth, milk and water like medicine. When feeding solid food with a spoon, you can first insert the spoon into the cat's mouth and scrape the food onto the cat's tooth cavity from behind the big teeth. If the cat vomits, don't feed too much at a time, eat less and eat more.