At the correct contents the domestic rats seldom need bathing especially as the majority of animals at the same time has a stress. However under some circumstances such need can arise. How it is correct to expiate a domestic rat?
It is required to you
- - basin, bath or kitchen sink;
- - kittens or puppies shampoo;
- - towel;
- - low-power hair dryer.
Instruction
1. It is possible to bathe a rat not more often than once a month. As animals easily catch a cold, in order to avoid drafts close in the room of a window and door. Do not bathe a sick animal. If on skin of a rat there are damages, wounds, inflammations, water can worsen its state.
2. For bathing it is possible to use a small basin or a bath, but it is the most convenient to do it in a kitchen sink. Fill with warmish water both sinks so that its level was not above a throat of an animal. Lower a rat in water, but do not release, otherwise she will escape.
3. As special means for bathing of rodents are not issued, use kittens or puppies shampoo. Do not use plain detergents or soap - they can cause allergies in animals, promote a peresushivaniye and peeling of skin.
4. Drip several drops of shampoo on a back part of a trunk of an animal. Massage a hair finger-tips. Do not use a brush, you can unintentionally wound a rat. You watch that water and soap did not get into eyes and ears of an animal.
5. Lower a rat in a sink with clear water. Rinse. It is possible to take an animal under a water jet. Blot fur of your pet with a towel, specially allotted for this purpose.
6. Dry a hair of an animal the low-power hair dryer. Temperature of an air stream at the same time should not exceed 40 degrees. You do not bring the hair dryer too close not to burn and to overdry gentle skin of a rat. For the correct determination of distance at first direct an air stream to inside of an elbow bend of the hand. Your feelings at the same time have to be neutral – the stream to air does not burn and does not cool skin. Continue drying by the hair dryer until the hair of a rat does not become by sight dry and fluffy. To the touch it has to remain slightly damp. After that give to a rat an opportunity most to finish the toilet.
7. For males with the greased wool in an interval between bathings you carry out additional water procedures. Moisten with water a soft terry towel. Wipe with it a hair of an animal.