Grooming Your Pets

Grooming your pets doesn't mean that they have to be made-up and untouchable. It simply means that you are taking good care of their health by keeping watchful eyes on their hygiene. Pets, like humans are more likely to remain healthy when they are clean and well groomed. Contrary to popular belief, cats and dogs are not wild animals and they require regular grooming attention to keep them healthy in their domestic environments. One of the major benefits of a regular grooming regimen is that you will become familiar with your pet’s body. This allows you to quickly response problems with their health so that you can bring them to your veterinarians’ attention sooner. If you think that it is too tedious for you to groom your pets alone, you can bring your pet to the pet center whose offer grooming service. In Ipoh, you may found a lot of pet center which provide reasonable price for grooming your pets. For my Jacq, I usually send her to Pet Images which located at Ipoh Garden East and also Happy Pawz at Canning Garden. Below is some of the grooming that you need to do with your pets.

1) Trimming of Nails

Nails of all the pets should be regularly trimmed and especially of cats s they have scratching habit. When trimming the nails, be careful not to cut them too short and cause bleeding. Cut the nails until you see a dark circle appearing in the center of the nail. This is the edge of the quick or blood vessel in the nail bed.

2) Brushing

Prior to bathing and clipping, the pets need to be brushed out to make sure there are no knots in the furnishings. Knots are big problem in cats and dogs and more so in longhaired cats. Brush the beard, legs and underskirt to make sure there are no knots using the Pin Brush. Brush upward (against the natural lay of hair) starting at the top of the leg and proceed downward as you are brushing.

3) Bathing

Pets need to be bathed from time to time. But frequency of bathing of each pet varies. For example, cats need to be bathed not more than once a month. While bathing make sure the temperature of the water is not too hot. Be careful not to get water and shampoo in the ears, eyes and mouth when bathing the pet. Put cotton balls in the pet’s ears to help prevent water from getting in the ear canal.

4) Drying

While towel drying the legs and beard, don’t rub but squeeze out the access water to help prevent tangling the furnishings. You can also use a drier. Brush the beard and eyebrows down. Brush the legs up, starting with the pin brush and moving to the slicker brush when the leg is almost dry. Slicker brushes tend to rip out hair when used on a wet leg.

Some important things to remember while grooming you pet:

    

a) Never punish your pet for not responding to the grooming schedule. Animals like to be left alone and not very comfortable when someone touches them. Hence, in the beginning they don’t respond positively to the grooming routine.

b) Never let your pet mistake grooming tools as toys. Don’t let it play with brush or clippers because otherwise your pet will start treating grooming session as play time.

c) Never hit your pet with a grooming tool else pet will start associating grooming tool with punishment and will try to avoid grooming session.

d) Start grooming from an early age. That way your pet will get use to grooming easily.