The British cats are very clean, nevertheless, and they need regular washing. It is necessary to accustom a kitten to bathing from "young claws" that at later age the regular procedure of washing did not turn into painful test for the owner and an animal.
It is required to you
- - sink or other convenient capacity for bathing;
- - special shampoo;
- - rubber rug;
- - sponge;
- - rubber brush;
- - big towel;
- - paper towels;
- - silent hair dryer.
Instruction
1. Begin to bathe kittens from two-month age. For the first time wash up the pet in about 2-3 weeks after his emergence in your house even if it was not too soiled. During this time the kid will manage to get used and adapt on the new place, and the first bathing will be a measure not only hygienic, but also educational. If everything passes successfully, further your pet will not fall into a condition of panic horror when washing, and you will avoid scratches and stings. It is necessary to bathe the British kitten not earlier than in 4 hours after feeding.
2. It is much easier to wash up a little kitten, than an adult animal. For this purpose it is possible to use any convenient capacity. But it is the best of all to bathe the kid in a sink. Lay a rubber rug or a towel on a bottom. Adjust water temperature - it should not exceed 38-40 degrees. Fill capacity approximately on 10 cm.
3. Do not do sharp movements. Talk to an animal quiet, measured voice. Smoothly lower it in water all four pads at the same time. You hold with a muzzle from yourself. One hand defeat, another moisten a hair.
4. Do not use means for people, they can do harm to skin and a hair of the kid. Buy special shampoo on the basis of seaweed and officinal herbs. You watch that when washing water did not get to a kitten into eyes and ears. In order to avoid irritation before bathing dig eye drops.
5. In advance dissolve shampoo with water in a proportion 1:1. Apply it on a hair of a kitten. Well make foam a hand. Comb out wool a soft rubber brush. The head should not be washed. Just wipe a muzzle with the sponge moistened in soap water.
6. It is necessary to wash a kitten 2 times. Then very carefully, not less than 3 times, rinse animal hair. Wrap it in a big towel. Carefully wipe. Blot a hair with paper towels - they very well absorb water. Dry the silent hair dryer or send "to dry up" to the battery on previously outspread dry towel. It is impossible to leave the kid wet – cats easily catch a cold.