Cat Body Care: Gums - Teeth, Claws and Anal glands

Gums and teeth: If you feed your cat canned food both dry and moist, of homemade food and you do not brush his teeth or massages his gums somehow, these can swell. In the moment in which the cat has bad breath, probably already irreversible damage have produced in the roots of some teeth. Maintain his teeth and gums in good health and prevent the infections.

• Be sure that at least part of the cat's diet is required to chew and to crush it with the teeth. Give him pieces of entire meat.
• Brush the teeth to him weekly with a soft brush for children. (Do not use usual tooth paste most of the cats don't like it. Use only specific paste for felines. Prize him always with words of praise or with a hard delicacy once brushed is ended).
• If his gums bleed when brushed, is that they are inflamed. Coordinate an appointment with the veterinarian.

Since they are so demanding retainers, most of the cats- but not all- clean themselves well the teeth on having chewed and to eat bones. Start offering bones to your feline to a very early age, but only if he does not rush on them to devour them as a dog would do. Also he can turn out to be dangerous in those homes where there are several cats that compete for the food.

Claws: The cats scratch the furniture and other objects to leave visible marks of his presence. Provide to the animal a post scraper that likes him. The cats of advanced age need to cut the nails with more frequency. If you do not do it, they can grow bowing backward up to the point of going in the pads of the fingers.

1. Hold the paw and locate the tissue of pink color (the alive meat) that exists inside the nail.
2. Use special clippers for cats, cut every claw just above the cuticle
3. If it starts bleeding, press the end cut during two minutes with an absorbent dressing.

Anal glands: If your cat spend all the time being washed the anal region, or if the groin or the back legs are licked, it is possible that he has the odoriferous glands obstructed placed on both sides of the anus.

Symptoms of an obstruction of the anal glands.

• The cat licks the anal region.
• The groin or the back legs are licked.
• He sticks sudden jumps and he looks at the fourth backs.

The obstructed glands must be emptied. Your veterinarian will teach you how to do it. The preventive emptied reduces the risk that a painful anal abscess is formed.