What kind of person can be called a cat slave?

The first thing to raise a cat, the first thing to go out is to add cat food, and the first thing to come back is to shovel cat poop...is that enough?

Excluding the time to earn money to support the family, the time to socialize, and the time to sleep with the head covered...

In fact, the time to truly serve the master may be half an hour, not even the master's daily life. Understood,

Do you still dare to call yourself a cat slave?

Chongzaijun invited an international famous pet doctor (of course I am myself) to talk about the daily life of cats Make a more detailed analysis to help every cat owner evolve into a cat slave, set up a small bench, let's learn together!

A cat's day: 2/3 of the time is sleeping

As one of the predators in nature, cats need time to recover their energy for the next hunt, and the best way is to sleep.

Although most cats nowadays do not need to hunt for a living, their sleeping habits have been preserved. Generally, cats spend 2/3 of their day (about 14-15 hours) sleeping. Anatomy shows that cats can exert a short burst of power. The hunting instinct makes cats need high performance far more than staying power. . Therefore, cats are very fond of leisure and comfort, which is also an important normal life for them. Although you will sometimes find that the cat wakes up after ten minutes of sleep, it needs to nap at any time every day, and sleep for more than ten hours in total!

Sleep is good for cats and people alike. A top priority, but if your cat sleeps too much and doesn't exercise too much, it can lead to overweight problems. Like humans, obesity will increase the incidence of various diseases in cats, such as arthritis, diabetes, etc. Although fat cats look cute in the eyes of some people, owners must pay attention that being round is not healthy In this state, you still have to help the cat stay in shape.

A cat's day: licking 30% of waking hours

Cats spend a lot of waking hours licking their fur every day, which is not only a cat love The performance of cleaning, and because licking hair will promote the release of endorphins in the brain, cats will also feel relaxed and happy. For cats who have left their owners or are stressed and anxious due to environmental changes, they will also relax a little from their extreme anxiety by constantly licking their whole body. In addition, I have to mention that cats often lick their fur to clean themselves, so their body odor is not obvious, which will also help them hide their odor in the wild and not be discovered by enemies!

Then Where do these licked hairs go? According to research, in addition to the cat hair scattered around the house, the barbs on the cat's tongue will lick 70% of its shed hair into its stomach. Frequent vomiting of hairballs will damage their digestive tract. If hairballs accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, it will also cause gastrointestinal obstruction, resulting in various problems such as constipation and loss of appetite in cats.

Normal metabolism and seasonal changes can cause cats to shed hair, and it is common for cats to lick their hair every day. However, in order to prevent the hairballs from entering the cat's stomach and causing various problems, the shovelers should help the cat to comb the hair more, observe the cat's daily life, and choose the appropriate cat food to reduce the probability of hairballs entering the cat's body or help the hairballs to be discharged. just fine.

A cat's day: why doesn't it drink water?

It is a commonplace problem that cats drink less water! When it is mentioned that the ancestral home of cats is in Africa, we generally think that it is North Africa or the Fertile Crescent, and such ancestral home is also one of the reasons why cats are less thirsty. The lack of water in the five elements is just a joke. As a desert species, cats are naturally born, and their kidneys have a strong absorption capacity. They do not need much water to survive, so they usually don’t like drinking water. However, we all know that the kidneys are the most vulnerable organs to be damaged by water shortage. Cats do not like to drink water. It is very common to have urinary system diseases after chronic water shortage.

Did the cat owners drink water obediently when the shit shoveling officers were at work?

Don't worry about it, here is some encouragement for cats. Small ways to drink water:

1. Prepare water bowls of different materials (such as ceramic, glass, plastic, stainless steel) to see which one the cat prefers, and then decide it is it.

2. The number of water bowls in the house = the number of cats + 1

3. Put the water bowls in the places where cats often haunt to remind them that they should drink water, and remember to drink water every time Change clean water every day

4. Cats prefer running water! Picking a fountain drinking fountain may arouse your cat's interest in drinking water.

5. Please keep the water bowl, litter box and rice bowl separate.

6. Some cats like ice water, you can try adding an ice cube to the cat water bowl!

A cat's day: it is also important to eat carefully!

Many shit shoveling officers may be troubled by the cats in their homes being picky about food. In fact, cats are picky eaters for a reason. First of all, cats’ eating follows the rule of eating less and more meals. Because of eating multiple times a day, the food stays in the cat’s mouth for a long time, and they eat more frequently, so the taste of the food is very important. Good taste is the cat’s One of the basic criteria for choosing food.

At the same time, cats have different types of amino acids than humans. Studies have shown that cats need 11 amino acids to maintain health, 2 more than humans (9 for humans, 10 for dogs, Now you know the reason why cats and dogs can't eat human food! It can't meet the nutritional needs at all!). And as a carnivore, the cat's stomach is more suitable for digesting protein, which is also a problem that it will consider when choosing food. In addition, cats have a better sense of smell than humans, and the smell of food also occupies a very large part of their diet choices. proportion of. If a cat's sense of smell fails, it will refuse to eat.

If shovelers want to keep their cats healthy whether they are around or not, the following methods may help:

1. Be vigilant about health factors The impact on the cat's appetite, such as respiratory problems cause the cat's sense of smell to become poor and the food is not fragrant, the pain in the mouth is not dare to bite, gastroenteritis, diarrhea and vomiting, etc.

2. Don't feed cats human table food, as we mentioned earlier, cats and humans have different nutritional needs.

3. Consider glass, stainless steel or ceramic rice bowls for feeding containers. And the rice bowl and water bowl should also be placed separately

4. The food must be fresh.

5. When the cat needs medicine, don't hide the bitter medicine in the food, otherwise the cat may hate this kind of food.

6. Cats will not like to eat when they are nervous, so it is very important to ensure a good dining environment for the cat owner, especially in a multi-cat environment, the cats' respective food bowls should be opened separately.

These issues mentioned above are all the hot spots of cat slaves caught by Chong Zaijun on the Internet. Cat slave shoveling officers, hurry up and mark it!

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