Owners of cats are forced to make with them more or less long trips from time to time. It can be a visit to the veterinarian, a trip to knitting or an exhibition, or moving. Many animals suffer from travel sickness in motor transport that gives to their owners the mass of an inconvenience. Why it occurs and how to fight against it?
Despite external differences between people and their pets, in many respects they after all are similar. It is sometimes touching, and sometimes when and having a tail concern moustached the same illnesses, as their owners, it can be very sad. Quite often pets who travel together with the owners suffer from so-called "seasickness".
The reason on which the cat rocks to sleep
How to understand that your pet suffers from a motion sickness? A number of symptoms to which plentiful salivation, nausea and vomiting, and in certain cases and diarrhea belongs demonstrates to it. If you noticed that the cat badly postpones automobile trips, then it is better to try not to take him or to minimize such travel.
Most often the cat suffers from travel sickness in the car owing to weakness of a vestibular mechanism of an animal which is in his inner ear. If the cause of "seasickness" of your pet consists in it, then to a cat it becomes bad only during the movement of the car whereas during stops it is easier for it.
Other reasons for which the cat rocks to sleep in a car it is intolerance of a smell of gasoline and strong gas contamination on the road. In this case the only exit — not to carry an animal with itself or to use any other type of transport.
What to do if the cat rocks to sleep on the way
First of all, you do not feed an animal that day to which you appointed a trip. Then, perhaps, the cat will have no vomiting, and at strong salivation you can wipe a muzzle of the pet in advance prepared tissues.
In veterinary clinics and pet-shops it is possible to buy the special medicines preventing attacks of "seasickness" at animals. Meklitsin, "Beaphar" and others treat them. It is not necessary to give them to the cat, previously without having consulted with the veterinarian.
Sometimes symptoms of travel sickness in the car at a cat arise because of the stress caused by a trip. In order to avoid it for couple of days prior to a travel begin to give to a cat homeopathic soothing, for example, Fospasim. Precisely calculate a medicine dosage, based on the mass of an animal. If all symptoms arise owing to the stress caused by change of a situation, then sedative will allow to get rid of them.
Some owners consider that if at a cat freedom of movement and the review is limited — for example, he goes to a car, being in a special bag transportation — that it rocks to sleep less.