If the cat is clingy and often runs to the bed or jumps into your arms, it is necessary to bathe the cat regularly for your own experience and family hygiene.
How to bathe a cat
Which conditions should not bathe a cat?
Do not bathe kittens under 3 months old, as kittens have poor resistance, and there is a certain risk in bathing.
Do not take a bath for one week before and after the vaccine. Cats may have adverse reactions after being vaccinated. Bathing may reduce the resistance of cats.
Abstaining from bathing for a week before and after a long trip or moving may cause a stress response, which can be exacerbated by bathing.
Do not bathe the cat when the temperature is too low. It is best to choose a warm sunny day for bathing. You can bathe more frequently in summer, and try to avoid bathing in winter.
Bathing preparation
Nail trimming before bathing
Planning to bathe the cat When cutting the cat’s nails the day before, it can effectively reduce your accidental injury.
Prepare bath supplies
Prepare cat shampoo
, towel, hair dryer, bath tub, and a hair dryer if possible.
If you don’t have time to buy cat shampoo, you can use your own shampoo instead. Cat shampoo has more insect repellent ingredients than household shampoo. During bathing, you need to avoid cats licking hair and poisoning.
Cat shampoo is generally cheaper than self-use shampoo, but there are some accompanying features suitable for cats, so try to use cat shampoo.
How to bathe the cat
Close the door
Bring the cat into the bathroom on On the stool, close the bathroom door to give the cat a sense of security. If the cat thinks there is a possibility of escape, or if there is any trouble outside, the bathing process may be more dishonest.
Bathing
Put a small amount of warm water in the tub, pick up the cat and slowly put it into the tub, with the hind legs under the water, and the front legs on the edge of the tub for stability Then you can start washing.
Slowly swirl the water in the basin onto the cat to moisten the hair, and then use the shampoo to rub the cat’s body so that the foam covers the hair completely, just like washing your hair yourself.
Then flush, use the water in the basin to flush most of the cat’s foam, and then adjust the size and temperature of the spray water, try to keep the water flow as small as possible, and the appropriate water temperature (the cat’s body temperature is slightly higher than that of humans) ,
The spray is attached to the cat’s hair, first clean the back, abdomen, tail, and then clean the head. When cleaning the head, let the cat lift its head to avoid water flowing into the eyes and ears.
After the first cleaning, dump the sewage in the basin, start the second cleaning, use less shampoo, massage and massage, then rinse according to the above steps, and complete the bathing steps.
Dry the hair
Use a bath towel or towel, dry the cat’s hair, and place the cat on the stool .
Drying
Blow the cat in a warm environment selected in advance. If there is a hair dryer, put the cat in the hair dryer. If there is only a hair dryer, you need to pay attention to avoid being scratched by the cat hurt.
Stroking and holding the back of the cat’s neck to start blowing, the temperature should not be overheated, to avoid burning the hair, and the wind speed can be reduced to avoid pointing the hair dryer to the cat’s ears, the cat’s hearing is sensitive, and the noise of the hair dryer may damage the cat’s hearing.
How to make cats like bathing
Let cats like to bathe surrounding things, and make cats like bathtubs.
If you don’t have a good bathing experience for the first time, cats may hate bathing-related things, such as bath tubs, and they will hate re-entering.
Before the first bath, do some necessary guiding training to let the cat get used to entering the bathtub or bathtub. The bathtub can be larger. There are folding bathtubs for children swimming on the market, and the bathtub is covered with a bath bag regularly. Disinfection, if conditions permit, it will be used exclusively for cats. It is better if there is a bath.
Putting canned treats in a waterless bath is a great way to guide your cat into the bath.
After 1 week or more of cultivation, the cat will no longer reject the bath.
At this time, you can add 0-1 cm of water to the bath. Maybe the cat will hesitate, but after all, it will not be able to resist the temptation of food. Since the canned cat can’t take it away, the cat will stand in the water to eat.
Let the cat like to get wet
If the weather is hot in summer and the cat starts to stick out the tongue to cool down , you can use the method of getting wet to cool down,
cool the cat: bring the cat to the tabletop on the balcony, prepare a bucket of water next to it, bring out some water by hand, stroke the cat’s hair, repeat the above Steps until the cat’s hair is soaked through, you can massage the cat in the process.
The temperature is hot in summer, and getting wet hair is a better way to cool down. After you finish massaging the cat, you can choose to dry the cat’s hair with a towel.
If the weather is special It is also possible to omit the drying step if it is hot. Cats like to get wet because cats need it.
Let the cat like the bathroom environment
When you’re ready to take a bath, bring the cat into the bathroom, place it on a stool, and close the bathroom door. It will silently watch you take a shower, listen to the sound of water spraying from the bathroom, and watch the rising water vapor.
The first few times the cat may look for the direction to go out, and after a few times when you take a bath, it will take the initiative to jump on the stool and wait for you to take a bath.
How to make cats like bathing?
Some breeds of cats like bathing very much: Turkish Van cats, leopard cats, fishing cats, other cats; other breeds of cats can also like to bathe, Chinese pastoral cats, British shorthair, American shorthair, etc. Likes to play in the water,
even let them like to swim, cats are born to swim, but they don’t necessarily like it.
It’s not difficult to let your cat bathe quietly. Follow the above steps step by step, and most cats can take a quiet bath.
How to make cats look forward to or like bathing?
Need a suitable environment
If the water temperature in the bathroom fluctuates in winter, do you like to take a bath?
In order for cats to like bathing, there must be objective physical needs.
In the hot summer, if there is no air conditioner, if the cat finds that taking a bath can cool down before, it will take the initiative to beg you to give it a bath, and it may meow at a fixed time and place to remind you that it is time to take a shower .
If the climate is normal, you can take a bath or not, so why bother taking a bath? And it takes a lot of time to put on makeup after taking a bath. Is the cat eating too much? With this skill, it is better to lie down and sleep.
The three major needs of cats:
Get food, sex and avoid danger, other needs can be put aside.
If one cat of the opposite sex likes swimming or likes water, the other cat likes it too.
In the absence of the temptation of the opposite sex, only hunger can make it overcome all difficulties and prepare a unique meal for the cat after bathing! It will always remember this.
