If you decided to take to yourself in the house a cat, in advance learn about how she needs to be fed and as to look after her. Estimate the opportunities: whether it is enough at you for this time, patience and financial opportunities.
Instruction
1. If you had a new family member, a little kitten, show it his place in the house. The kitten has to know where his bowl and where a toilet (tray). Do not put a bowl with food near a tray at all. It can prevent you quickly and without problems to accustom an animal to a toilet.
2. Put near a bowl for food a cup for drink. It has to be rather big, cats need to drink a lot of liquid during the day (30 ml of water - on 1 kg of weight of an animal). If you give to a cat a dry specialized feed, then know that she has to drink three times more than the volume of the consumed forage.
3. Give to an animal plain clear water. Opinion that cats love milk, mistakenly. Besides, it can be the cause of indigestion at an animal. If after all you noticed that your kitty with pleasure drinks milk, choose a product with the minimum content of fat or just dilute it with water. Keep in mind that it is more useful to work of digestive tract of an animal fermented milk products, but not usual milk.
4. Do not give to a cat crude fish. This product can provoke development of an urolithic disease in your pet. Information that cats love a small fish is wrong.
5. If you feed the animal with meat, then choose low-fat fillet of veal or chicken. It is better to refuse pork. Meat needs to be cut small pieces and to boil without addition of salt and spices, and on the remained broth cook to a kitty porridge or soup.
6. You feed a kitty also with a liver and heart (beef or chicken). These products can be scalded only boiled water and in such half-baked look to give to an animal in food.
7. Never give in food to an animal what you eat. These products can be harmful to it as are prepared with addition of seasonings, salts, fats.
8. You feed a cat twice a day, and the pregnant woman - four, five. As soon as the animal eats, wash a bowl and remove. It should not stand whole put with food as products can deteriorate. Besides, accustom an animal to a certain mode of meal.
9. If you do not buy specialized forages for animals, consult the veterinarian about what vitamins and in what proportions need to be given to your cat. Their reception depends on age of an animal, body weight, breed, the state of health, etc.
10. Once a week you clean to your pet ears the cotton tampon moistened in plain water or in vegetable oil. This procedure needs to be carried out extremely accurately not to do much harm to an animal.
11. Once in ten - fourteen days cut claws to an animal. For this purpose you need to get a special kogterezka in pet-shop. Not to damage a sosudika, look at a claw attentively. You will see that on a gleam through a claw they are looked through.
12. Bathe an animal only in rare instances, for example, if it strongly is soiled during walk. The healthy cat is capable to watch purity of the hair.
13. Comb out a kitty at least once in a week. For this purpose it is necessary to get two hairbrushes (with frequent and with rare cloves). Comb animal hair at first a hairbrush with rare teeths, and remove the remains of the dropped-out hair other hairbrush. Wool has to be smooth, without splitting axes. If your pet strongly fades during the whole year, address the veterinarian.
14. Do not give to an animal medicamentous medicines without consultation with the veterinarian. Especially, it is impossible to treat a cat by means of those medicine which you take. You can ruin an animal.
15. If you love the pet, then play with him and you spend more time, and he will answer you with mutual love and devotion.