You should not bathe cats often – they are capable to clean independently wool language. But sometimes bathing nevertheless is necessary, and it is very important to wash an animal correctly not to frighten, and the result was good.
Cat's wool is covered with lubricant – it is developed by hypodermic sebaceous glands. When bathing, wool on shampoo influence for a while loses such protection.
It is necessary to expiate a cat if in wool parasites are found, or it too dirty, and sometimes in the preventive purposes – for example if the animal contacted to others and is danger to pick up fleas.
Cats and cats with long wool need washing more often. It is more difficult to them to be licked and if the animal is supposed to be sent to an exhibition, it needs to be washed to create beautiful appearance. Short-haired cats need it not so often, and owners of sphinxes in this plan can only envy.
The soap intended for the person, cats cannot be washed because of a difference in acid-base balance of skin. Special shampoos for cat's wool are produced in the liquid state, in a dry pudroobrazny state, in the form of spray. Liquid means wash best of all, but you should not use them often – they can break work of sebaceous glands.
Dry shampoos can become the real rescue if the animal is afraid of water. With them process turns out not more difficult than combing. Powder is applied on wool, maintain so much how many it is specified in the instruction, then cleaned off by means of a hairbrush. Using sprays, it is necessary to be more attentive – the cat can be frightened of a barrel sound.
Much more problemny washing by liquid shampoo, but sometimes is simple not to do without it. Before the procedure the cat should be calmed, taken on hands, to stroke and talk to it. Some cats are not so frightened by soaking as noise of the water flowing from the crane.
Water should be poured in a bathtub, but not in a basin because the animal can begin to try to get out of water. At the same time are enough with paws of a cat for edges of a basin and can overturn it. Water level has to be such to reach a stomach of a cat, and temperature can be checked, having lowered own elbow there.
Put a cat in a bathtub and wet wool the water gathered there, at the same time do not assume that it got into ears. It is desirable to carry out the procedure with the assistant. A lot of shampoo should not be applied – such means strongly foam. Wash animal hair the massing movements, carefully pour from a basin or from a hose at a weak pressure of water.
Get the washed-up cat from a bathtub and wrap up in a towel, well get wet. Towels for long-haired individuals it will be required a little. If the cat is not afraid of the hair dryer, it is possible to dry wool with its help.