Care is not only a service of beauty

The special caring in also part of a correct attention. Thus, you can take notice sooner of any symptom of disease.

Tools for cat caring: For short hair cats you only have to take the hair off with the comb during the stage of molting.

Long hair cats and Persian cats must be combed and brushed every day. Stomach, forming balls that, afterwards, they vomit. Although, they can produce costiveness or even intestinal occlusion, specially on Persians.

To comb and brush: Long hair cats: put the cat on your lap and start combing, with the big metal comb, the hair on the belly in its own direction. At this zone the hair has a tendency to entangle. Afterwards, com again from the head to the tall with a thin comb. While your combing the cat, put attention for the presence of parasites and observe, also, the state of the skin. After combing, brush the hair thoroughly.

Short hair cats: first comb with the thin metal comb following the direction of the hair; then, with a humid mote sponge and, after with the chamois cloth, for which lost of hair are is going to fall off.

Untangling hair: On long hair cats, often, small tangles of hair are formed. To undo them, divide them in small parts with your fingers and use the razor for help or use a untangling comb.

The bath: Only bathe the cat if he is really dirty or one or two days before its presentation to an exhibition. To much bathing may damage his skin moreover, most of the cats don't like it, and on its first opportunity he escapes.

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