Bathing of your pet - sometimes just necessary ritual. For example, your canine friend got into a ditch at the dacha or was smeared in a pot with the earth. As you can see, in spite of the fact that in most cases cats quite cope with the hygiene, by means of saliva and a rough uvula, there can be situations when the help you and shampoo can be necessary. So, how to wash a cat?
Instruction
1. First, make sure that your animal is healthy. Bathing cannot do the unwell small animal good, he will catch a cold even more. Especially it is quite strange and unusual procedure for cats, it is hardly worth subjecting a sick animal to such stress.
2. Do not bathe a cat less, than in 4 hours after acceptance of food. Bathing can provide to an animal with a full stomach a lot of discomfort and to become the reason of problems with digestion.
3. Be prepared for such ritual thoroughly: 2 towels will be necessary for you. Both are warm and terry. You will wrap up with one your animal after the procedure of bathing and will blot excess moisture, and the second should be laid on a bathtub bottom, less, - the cat or a cat will feel on such ""soil"" much more surely.
4. Fill a bathtub with warm water, its temperature has to be about 39-40 degrees. Water level has to be approximately to shovels of a cat, it is impossible to gather more - if your pet begins to escape actively, water can get into ears, and it is extremely dangerous as ears at cats - extremely sensitive place. Water should not be cool as the cat or a cat can chill internals. Remember that also the usual body temperature of a healthy animal is slightly higher, than the body temperature of the person.
5. You are obliged to approach the shampoo choice very responsibly. First, forget the idea that the cat or a cat can be washed with shampoo or soap for people, it is empty even the softest. If human skin and hair are created in order that they were regularly washed, then cat's wool is not, and such means you will wash away all protective lipids from hairs and epidermis. Choose soft shampoo especially for cats, it can be as ph-neutral, and on a natural basis, for example, or egg. Cats do not suit also dogs shampoo, even the smallest and myagkosherstny, they also wash away a protective lipidic layer from skin and a hair.
6. Do not allow just washed up animal to walk about with wet wool in the cool room at all, and especially on a draft! It in a moment will catch a cold. It is necessary to dry wool accurately and gently a fluffy towel, to place a cat somewhere closer to the heater, and then to walk on wool a hairbrush with rare teeth - so the animal will dry even quicker.