Magnificent hair of a long-haired cat looks perfectly - but only in case it is perfectly clean. The food remains, street dirt, small litter can spoil appearance of your favourite and even to affect her health. It is possible to put hair of a cat in order by means of frequent comb-out and periodic washing.
Preparation for water procedures
The cat does not need daily and even weekly bathtub at all. Usually it is washed not more often than once a month. More intensive water procedures can irritate the skin of an animal, the cat will have a dandruff. Besides not all pets quietly transfer washing.It is the most convenient to bathe a cat in a usual bathtub or a pallet of a shower cabin. Also the children's plastic bath or a big basin will approach. It is necessary to wash an animal with warm water. Hot will irritate the skin, and from too cold the cat can catch a cold. Pick up good shampoo. Usual means will not be suitable for human hair - after it hair of a cat will be ragged and dim. Buy special long-haired cats shampoo - it considers all features of thin and soft wool. Some cats need special detergents. For example, for white animals there are bluish shampoos removing an ugly yellow shade of wool. It is also best of all to wash coal-black and blue cats with the special coloring shampoos enhancing dark color of wool and hiding reddishness. It is especially important for cats who attend exhibitions. Before water procedures carefully comb out an animal. Pay attention to a magnificent collar, long wool on a tail, a stomach and hinder legs. Cut off koltuna if they were found. Also manicure will not prevent. Truncate claws special nippers, it will help to avoid accidental scratches. Gather in a bathtub of a little warm water - it has to cover paws of a cat only slightly. Part a portion of shampoo in a bucket, so will distribute more simply detergent on wool. In advance prepare several big terry towels.
We start washing
Carefully put a cat in a bathtub, holding it for withers. It is desirable to develop it the head to a wall - so the animal will not do attempts to jump out. Water with warm water from a shower a cat, trying not to get on the head. Carefully moisten wool, and then distribute on it the divorced shampoo. Rub a cat's skin hands, paying special attention to the polluted places. As necessary it is possible to add still shampoo. In the last turn wash the head. Act carefully that water did not get into ears and eyes of a cat. Rinse an animal with warm water. You watch that the cat did not freeze. It is necessary to wash her quickly and surely, constantly talking with a cat by a tender voice. It will calm her and will give courage. Well rinse wool and slightly wring out it hands. Drain water from a bathtub and throw a big towel over a cat. Wrap it and put on the floor laid by one more towel. Carefully wipe a cat, at the same time wringing out her wool. When the towel becomes damp, replace it with dry. When hair of an animal is dried, the cat can be released. Give it the chance to recover and begin to be licked. If the animal quietly transfers washing, it is possible to dry it, combing out a rare crest. It is better to leave very nervous cat alone - she will lick and will dry up the wool independently. Take care only of that in the apartment there were no drafts - the wet animal easily catches a cold.