Train Your Cat to be Groomed
Excerpt : Grooming for a cat should be done on a daily basis for proper care of your cat. In addition, with the proper care, your cat will stay healthy. Brushing, combing, clipping nails, and cleaning ears,
Grooming for a cat should be done on a daily basis for proper
care of your cat. In addition, with the proper care, your cat
will stay healthy.
Brushing, combing, clipping nails, and cleaning ears, are
grooming that needs to be done. By doing basic grooming on a
regular basis will help in prevention with scratching furniture,
and hairball management.
Hairball management can be managed using different products that
can help with the hairball for the cat. Do not confuse this to
substitute for this part of the grooming. Learn more about these
products at your favorite pet store or internet site.
When training your cat for grooming,
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one of the first things you
will want done, is to have the cat to be able to relax in your
lap. By petting your cat gently on the head and then you will
want to pet him down the back and continue till you see that
your cat is comfortable with you petting him in the areas that
you will be grooming. Next, you will want to press gently on the
paw pads to look at the nails, you will want to work on checking
the ears. When you have achieved all these things, this is the
time to introduce the brush by letting him check the brush out.
Carefully start to brush him until you see your cat being
comfortable with the brush. Remember a cat's skin is sensitive
and you will
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want to take real gentle precaution when grooming.
Training your cat to be comb will be the same step you have
taken to be able to brush your cat. Be gentle, cats hair is
easily matted, snarled, and skin sensitive. If you using
precaution with doing the combing and you cause pain to your
cat, they may not let you do this. Brushing a cat's hair is very
important, also with long hair cats combing needs to be done.
With combing it helps get out the lose hair, and will make a
nice looking fur for the cat.
Clipping nails, if you have never clipped your cat's nails,
please talk to a veterinarian, a local groomers, search articles
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books, and be very careful when you are cutting
them. One thing to practice is having some one with you to help
with this, so if the cat tries to move you have reinforcements.
When cutting a cat's nail, toward the paw is a pink area that
you do not want to clip. This will be very painful for the cat
and a visit to the vet quickly. Make sure when doing this that
the cat is very comfortable with you touching its paws. Talk to
him when cutting the nails to reassure it is fine and soon will
be done. If your cat seems annoyed with cutting their nails,
stop, and try later. If you are unable to do this, cat groomers
trained to cut nails can do this for you and most time
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very
inexpensive, a lot less then a vet bill.
Cleaning your cat's ears is another basic grooming process, as
in the first part of the article, makes sure the cat is
comfortable with the touching of their ears. Once you know that
you are able to touch your cat's ears, now is the time to clean.
Use soft tip q-tips for this part, gently at first rub the q-tip
around the out side of the ear working your way to the inside to
be able to clean the ear. If at any time the cat resist, stop
redirect the cat and then continue until you can successfully
clean the ears.
Grooming your cat is also caring for your pet; just feeding your
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caring. Grooming is also a great way to interact with
your pet, for healthy relationships.
Search out more information on training your pet, tools to help
with the training and caring for your pet. Check out books, pet
stores, search on the internet there are great articles, ideas,
and suggestions on training your pet. One way of training may
not work but some one else may have different approach. Not all
cats train the same, just as we do not teach the same. .
About the author:
Tony Robinson is a webmaster, international author and cat
lover. Visit his website at http://www.officialcats.com
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