CAT CARE
CAT CARE gives an overview on the many important components of day to day care of your cat. Too often, we wait until something really obvious and by that time potentially very serious surfaces about our cats. We should never wait for loss of appetite, weight loss, excessive thirst or a wound to occur before providing care for our cats. Prevention is a better choice for both the cat and you (and your pocketbook). And it's easy ....if you know what to do.
This page will provide a list of items you should own if you have a cat and also many tips on cat care in general. Each item on the list will have a link to a more detailed page about that specific aspect of care with even more tips and product suggestions. In many ways, it helps to compare your cat with yourself. Think of the things you need, think of the things you need to do or have done each day or each week for yourselff. Chances are your cat needs many of the same things. However, so often, this type of routine care, preventative care, "comfort care" is overlooked. I come to these tips and recommendations via decades of cat ownership and 18 years of providing veterinary care for thousands of cats. If it happens to a cat, I have probably seen it. This gives me a unique perspective on cat care, cat prevention, and cat comfort.
If you have a short-haired cat and think of it as low maintenance or no maintenance, think again. They still have hair, still have skin, and still have nails. You say you've known cats that have lived for 20 years and never had a bath, never had a nail trim, never had a good brush-out and they lived to a ripe old age without problems? It's possible, but it's also possible, the cat had discomfort you weren't aware of. It's also true that such a cat is rare. For every 20 year old cat you can tell me about that never needed grooming or teeth cleaning or any maintenance at all, I can tell you about hundreds, thousands that suffered and died much earlier because they didn't get complete routine care.
Let's start with a great example of unnecessary suffering by a cat that could have been totally prevented with just a little inexpensive periodic care at home. See this example by Clicking Here.
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