Cats love heat, but here transfer a heat hardly. They are not able to cool the organism "on dog manners" – breathing with the put-out tongue; and they have very few sweat glands. Therefore overheating is dangerous to them – and in hot months it is necessary to take care of facilitating to an animal life.
Instruction
1. Cats in hot weather sleep much, at the same time passing from time to time from solar places into a shadow and vice versa. So they regulate temperature of the body, and this normal behavior. But it is necessary to watch that the cat did not sleep too long under direct sunshine – on her body few thermoreceptors and probability "to be slept" until heatstroke after all are. Also the dream under streams of cold air from the conditioner is dangerous to cats or near the fan – they can catch a cold.
2. In hot days it is possible to spread out on the apartment of a sheet and a towel, moistened with cold water. They will a little reduce air temperature indoors, and the cat will be able to lie on cool fabric or to go on it, moistening small pillows of paws.
3. If air temperature is indoors too high, cats like to doze in the cool place – in the bathroom or in a sink, on a tiled floor of a bathroom. Therefore during a heat it is better to hold a door to the bathroom slightly opened that the animal always had an access to a desired chill.
4. The cats loving water procedures sometimes independently suit in the summer themselves "cool bathtubs", washing the water flowing from the crane. If your favourite belongs to their number – several times a day include water a thin stream, and the cat itself most likely will come "to popleskatsya". Besides, cats can moisten with cool water outer side of ears, paws, it will become a little easier to iron wool wet palms – from such procedures to an animal. Some cats do not object also to a cool shower. But, if the cat resists – it is not necessary to arrange bathings violently.
5. In hot time one is better to feed a cat - twice a day. The main meal has to be evening, and food – rather easy. If the cat eats a natural forage, then it is better to replace beef with rabbit flesh or fowl. Anyway it is necessary to watch that the forage did not remain in a bowl for a long time: during a heat even dry granules quickly lose taste and a smell, and tinned forages can deteriorate literally in several hours. And here the animal has to have an access to cool fresh water always.
6. The appetite of a cat during a heat usually decreases, sometimes within one-two days it can almost is nothing, only to drink water. If there are no other symptoms of diseases – loss of interest in food is not a reason for concern.
7. If, despite all precautions, a cat after all it became bad, it is necessary to give her first aid. Frequent, but superficial breath can be symptoms of heatstroke (sometimes cats in such cases breathe with an open mouth, as dogs); temperature is higher than 39.5 wasps; expanded pupils and change of color of mucous membranes, constraint of movements or disorientation. Sometimes cats in such state lie, having spread or having extended, not reacting at the same time to touches or a voice of owners. In that case it is necessary to cool first of all an animal, having turned in a cool damp towel. It is possible to put to hips or a stomach sacks with ice. After that, even if it became better for a cat at once, it is necessary to show as soon as possible her to the veterinarian and to make sure that the heatstroke did not lead to edema of pulmonary or a brain.