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, 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 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 about it, read 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 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 cat is 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: Burt Cotton - http://www.catcarenews.org