Animal care professionals know what Grooming is. However, recently, this term has become vague, and even at all is incomprehensible. Someone, for example, believes that it is so called a haircut of domestic animals. Let's consider the nuances of the term, the features of the procedure, and find out who it is necessary, as well as how it reflects on the behavior of the animal.
What it is?
Grooming cats is a complex of caring hygienic procedures. It includes not only haircut, but also caring for wool, the state of the ears, eyes, skin and teeth of the pet. This is not at all the whim of the breeder, but rather need to maintain the excellent health of the pet. In addition to cleaning the ears, teeth, eyes and care of wool, it includes a haircut of claws. A specialist or master himself can perform a specialist or the master's care measures if he has skills and necessary adaptations.
Varieties
Feline Grooming can be classified into two types: hygienic and exhibition. The departure of the first type is aimed at ensuring and maintaining the purity and health of the cat, giving the pet a well-kept appearance. A caring complex includes 7 different procedures:
- combing pet wool;
- Swimming in warm water;
- co-cultivation;
- clearance of the ears;
- trimming long claws;
- Washing eyes;
- Cleaning teeth.
Exhibition Grooming differs from the usual because it is intended to bring a home cat to a specific standard set for this breed standard. He is engaged in its holding a professional carmer, more expecting the attention of animal wool. This type of grinding is mainly necessary for cats that take part in exhibitions.
In this case, the wizard performs a haircut so that the cat has received a minimum of unpleasant sensations.
Required devices
For a set of procedures Used:
- special comb;
- Shampoo for cats and cats;
- Claws or scissors for claws;
- cotton discs or napkins;
- Tools for purifying ears;
- Scissing or haircut machine.
In addition, on the desktop, just in case there should be hydrogen peroxide and wool. If the coat of the cat is long, the work is used in the work with rare teeth, massage brushes, as well as gloves to eliminate the saves.
When is needed?
In general, the complex of caring procedures is always needed. However, there are cases when immediate haircut is required. For example, grooming cats need:
- before the upcoming operation or procedure associated with the need to endure wool in certain places;
- in the presence of skin diseases Pet requiring access to skin cover;
- In the event of heat if the cat has long wool and there is a risk of overheating of the body;
- in the presence of small parasites in the wool (flea, ticks);
- when sticking feces on wool near the rear paw and tail in long-haired cats;
- Cat, swallowing a lot of wool when losing your own body;
- In the case when the wool in the animal fell into chatins , but there is no time for permanent combing.
In addition, the haircut of a cat is necessary and if the host is allergic to wool, which can be a permanent allergen. This procedure allows you to reduce the concentration of allergenic protein together with constant housekeeping. It is necessary to cut the animal and then when the owner is not able to ensure the correct care for the wool of the pet. Otherwise, a cat haircut should do more on medical testimony.
The cat itself cannot lick himself completely, which is bad for the state of wool and skin. For example, she will not clean her ears herself, he will not be able to clean his eyes, and there will take a break of claws. Timely Grooming is the prevention of various diseases.
It allows in the early stages to identify inflammation of teeth and skin, on time to eliminate the tooth stone and rash.
Cat behavior
It is impossible to say with confidence that cats adore grooming. And the point here is not so much in the fear and nonsense of animals, but in their upbringing and mood. If the kitten since childhood is accustomed to elementary hygiene, it will sit calvely until they make wool, handle ears, brushing teeth. The cat, first located on the grooming, will be nervous.
The procedures begin in the cabin with a haircut of claws, for which the accustomed cat reacts in different ways. But what about the haircut, then little pet refers to it positively. Some individuals consider this humiliation, and therefore we will depart from the procedure. For them, such a procedure is often turning stress, and sometimes loss of appetite.
Acquire a kitten to hygiene needs from the age of two or three months, gradually including in the homemade cat grooming new types of procedures. When grooming, the cat can scratch, bite, get out and try to escape. In some cases, after the procedure, its stress can grow into such a problem as the appearance of the gears that will not be overgrown. A cat can be nervous when the machine is sound for a haircut or even a hair dryer.
Some pets can try to bite the cargo when it will bathe them. Do not need wild haircuts, which can cause ridicule over pet. Cats very accurately feel intonation, they understand not only a rigorous voice, but also a timer of conversation. I will not give the pet confidence either haircut under the lion, nor under a different animal. Confidently all of them feel with their native wool.
Nuances of procedures
Cat haircut is one of the key grinding stages. In this case, an unenmended manner may not know some points to which it is important to pay attention. For example, you can not cut the head of the animal, cutting the wool from the ears and the bundbard, since the likelihood of Vibris damage is great . In addition, it is impossible to completely cut the wool from the tail, because the cats are constantly nibble, and therefore they can cause serious injury.
During the Garming, the specialist often identifies the presence of such problems as a starting dermatitis, increased routity of wool, vitamin deficit. As a rule, the cat stands on the table during the grinding. Other "customers" are laid on the side, and after processing - on the other side. After the haircut of cats bathe, then, at the request of the client, are engaged in caring for ears, claws and eyes.
Rarely what animals behave too calmly: this is characteristic of those cats that love when they are combed, they are constantly stroking and cherished. Often when trying to concentrate, cats become aggressive. This is a natural protective reaction, and therefore grooming is sometimes required assistant who holds the animal while its wool cut. However, there are limitations in which some stages of hygienic manipulations are excluded.
For example, you can not cut and bathe animal if the room is cool, as the pet can catch a cold. It is impossible to dramatically perform the entire complex of procedures if the animal is not accustomed to them. It is necessary to practice preparation gradually: you can start with short occasions, treating a cat at every stage of the grinding. Something can be skipped, giving a favorite to get used to the situation and manipulations so that in the future do not provoke stressful situations.
To downgrade the resistance of a cat to the haircut, some masters of the salons work with Miorolaxants. Preparations do not immobilize the animal, but they remove its activity, in view of which the reaction of the pet becomes inhibited. In fact, the cat makes an injection, pose the desired type of the drug and the necessary dosage.
After that, the specialist follows the state of the "client", however, such a procedure can negatively affect the health of the pet.
Oh different glowers use a leash, putting it on a cat during the haircut. Third prefer a special bag-lock, simplifying various manipulations by a specialist. Bags are used to simplify injections into any of the limbs, the care of ears and eyes. In fact, this product is something like a straitable shirt for a bright pet.
It is worth noting that not all the grinders must be performed constantly. For example, the haircut is not recommended to do more often 1 time in 3 years. In addition, no matter how much you want to make your cat special, it is necessary to understand that this is, above all, the extreme measure, and not a change in appearance by means of a model haircut.
It's one thing when the cat is cut through medical testimony, but completely different - for the sake of their own fun, because the animal can leave the stress for a long time, "presented" with his own owner.
How is it going?
If a haircut is needed, it is proceeded after processing claws and enveloping a special preparation. For haircuts, typewriter and scissors are used, paying special attention to armpits and stomach. At the end of the haircut, the animal bathe, dried his wool, after which it is combed. Wash the cat is good, so that on his body there is no cut sliced.
A specialist picks up a cleaning shampoo and starts swimming a cat. After bathing, he wraps her in a towel to dry wool. Other masters enjoy to accelerate the procedure with a hairdryer. If necessary, a haircut is performed, which is selected on the basis of the length of the wool and host preferences.
Sometimes pets are needed trimming, providing for comprehensive wool care with the removal of old wool and dying concrete hairs. For example, individual individuals cut the wool between the fingers of the paw . Do it should be careful not to damage the animal. Surfaceing the higen ears and eyes, the master will tell the owner to do it daily.
If the cat has sick organs, perform antiparasitic treatment with removal of purulent discharges. If the wool was swallowed into chopencies, they are cleaned, wool is broken for a long time using different crests and brushes. If the cat does not have a wool (furious breed), instead of haircuts and combing wool, the master pays attention to the places of the possible accumulation of dirt in the folds of the skin. Such cats need a frequent bath.
As for the ears and eyes, they are cleaned, using a decoction of chamomile or boiled water. Ear sulfuric discharges are cleaned with a wet cotton swab or disc. From the dust and dirt in the corners of the eyes are getting rid of wet wipes moistened in boiled water. Claws cut with a cunter no more than 1.5 mm.
As for the removal of the dental stone, only a specialist should be engaged. Ideally brush your teeth you need a special pasta and brush every day. However, rarely, which breeder can do it independently, besides, not everyone knows that the paste to clean the cats of cats is different from the one that people enjoy.
Checking the state of the teeth is a mandatory aspect of the normal development and growth of pet.
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