Domestic cats recognize healthy cats and sick cats

Domestic cats recognize healthy cats and sick cats

Cats as the most widely used domestic pets, increasingly into people's daily lives. Domestic cats have already got rid of, in order to protect the food and prevent rodent infestation, more assume the pet role of being human and become a member of the human family. Therefore, the domestic cats are reared from early livestock,Transform into pet raising.

Domestic cats have a gentle personality, flexible movements and clean preferences, easy family rearing. Most cats are close to people and trust depends on humans.

How to pick a healthy cat

Variety of choices

Before buying a cat, probably look at the characteristics of a variety of cat breeds, according to their needs to determine which kind of cat to buy. If you are an old man, a cat lover, a cat lover, you need to buy a lively, playful cat, then choose a Thai cat or a Burmese cat or a Himalayan cat.

If your little baby likes cats, you can choose Himalayan or Thai cats. If you have ornamental birds in your home or are you excited, it's best to buy a gentle Persian cat. If the home is in the countryside, buy a cat good at catching rats.


The choice of age

4-8 weeks after birth, the cat grows fast and weighs 0.5-1 kg at this time. It has the ability to live independently - weaning can be done. This is the best age to buy a cat.

If you buy a cat too old, it is not easy to establish feelings with the owner, often hiding in the corners of the room or hidden under the bed, or other home animals fight and even escape. Therefore, generally do not buy adult cats. But too young, no independent living capacity, coupled with care a little ill, kittens will be sick or even death.

Before buying a kitten, first understand the cat mother's situation. Cat mother should be well-balanced physique, healthy disease-free, high nutritional level. There are also people who like to buy the smallest of a cat for their little baby, which is an unscientific choice. Because the youngest cat in a litter is often breastfeeding or undernourished, resulting in early malnutrition and hypoplasia, the result is not easy to get sick or not.




Body size options

1, body: tiger tiger body tiger tail, body robust, solid bones, beard vigorous, fat and moderate.
2, fur: compact and flexible skin, hair close personal and shiny, no skin disease.
3, the mouth: large mouth, canine large teeth sharp edge, dark gray on the palate, pink gums.
4, limbs: vigorous and powerful. Rat cat paws should be very sharp.
5, the spirit: eyes wide open, bright, lively

When preparing a cat, choosing a healthy kitten is the most crucial start,

Please observe the following selection criteria:

Eyes: large round eyes, bright and clear, clear eyes without excrement, can not reveal the third eyelid.


Nose: round nose and moist, no runny nose or other scabs.
Ears: Dry ear hair, clean without secretions.
Mouth: light pink mouth and gums, no stench.
Fur: ​​shiny hair, neat hair is not messy.
Abdomen: Slight round but not swollen, if swollen may have Ascaris infection or other diseases.
Limbs: No deformation and bending phenomenon, running, jumping action flexible.
Anal: clean, no secretions, no traces of hair around the feces pollution.

Teach you how to identify the sick cat!

During the illness, cats often have all kinds of abnormalities. Cats often know cats' daily habits and catches abnormalities as early as possible. Abnormal performance of sick cats generally have the following aspects:



Mental status : sick cats often show listlessness, hi lying, eyes atheistic or semi-closed. Unresponsive to sound or external stimuli, the more serious the disease, the weaker the reaction, or even coma, a variety of reflections disappear (such as pupil light reflex) and so on. Some may also be the opposite of mental disorders, that is, cats uneasy, circling, biting things, shouting, mania and so on.

Nutritional status Cats are often back hair rough chaos, dry, lack of luster, weight loss, weakness. Healthy cats are usually covered with smooth and rich hair, muscular full and robust.

Body temperature : body temperature can be directly measured with a thermometer, under normal circumstances, you can observe the cat's nose, such as the nasal tip is dry body temperature performance. In addition, the ear root, body temperature changes can also be used as the body temperature reference. General health cat body temperature 38.0-39.5 ℃.

Cats appear in the event of body temperature increases are often accompanied by thirst, sluggishness, slow action, loss of appetite and so on.

Stance : Cat standing, lying, walking, jumping posture abnormal cat disease is also a kind of disease, such as cat limbs often appear when walking limp, standing posture is not correct when the cat belly pain often curled up, the head on the belly And unnatural lying position.

Breathing : Cats normally breathe 20 times to 30 times per minute. If the number of breathing is increased or decreased, at the same time out of breathing difficulties, nostrils Zhang Zhang, or mouth breathing, abdomen flapping, it may have respiratory diseases or other systemic diseases. However, pay attention to the difference between the seasons, the temperature, and changes in the activity of cats caused by normal physiological respiratory changes.

Appetite : sick cats generally have varying degrees of anorexia and antifeedant. Of course, we should pay attention to cats picky habits and the difference, pay attention to the cat's drinking water. Such as cats with fever or diarrhea, dehydration often increases the amount of drinking water, but when the serious or serious failure to reduce the amount of drinking water, or even drinking water

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