Cat's favorite way to escape the heat: air conditioning is not the first choice, diet and cat hair are the key

The hot summer is the most distressing time for friends who like small animals. On the one hand, it is already hot, and it is easy to feel irritable; on the other hand, if a piece is not handled properly, the little cuties at home may encounter a health crisis in minutes. Although cats are much more worry-free than dogs in terms of summer escape, scientific cooling methods are also needed to keep their cats away from the sweltering heat.

Cats, which are more heat-resistant than humans, only need an air conditioner?

Cats only need air conditioners to cool down. This is a misunderstanding that many shit shovelers fall into. Since cats are more heat-resistant than humans, usually humans feel hot and unbearable temperatures, and cats can easily control them. But in fact, it can be heat-resistant and heat-resistant. If the cat’s heat-resistant properties are used, science will cool it down, so that the cat will not be eroded by the heat because of its heat-resistant physique.

The most common way to escape the heat of domestic cats today is to put the cat in an air-conditioned room. Of course, in most cases, turning on the air conditioner is a convenient and effective way, but don’t think that the cat’s heat escape only needs the air conditioner. Can. In fact, just like humans, if cats stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time, it is easy to have a temperature difference that is too large, causing physical discomfort.

In addition, because in summer, cats shed a lot of fine hair, and these hairs will more or less carry some bacteria or even germs. If these hairs accidentally block the air conditioner filter plate, it will not only blow the bacteria and germs that have deteriorated at high temperature back to the cat, but also cause respiratory infection or eye speech in the cat, and it will also have a certain impact on human health.

Therefore, if you want cats to escape the heat in a healthy way, the cooling of the air-conditioned room is far from enough. What cats need is a way to escape the heat from the inside out.

Eating habits, determine the cat’s physical fitness

Many shoveling officers who are not very particular are used to feeding one kind of cat food all year round. In fact, in a strict sense, in addition to nutritional elements, this feeding habit has a somewhat negative impact on the cat’s winter and summer.

As we all know, cats are animals whose body temperature is easy to rise. If you feed them high-fat and high-calorie food when their body temperature is already high, they will not only reduce their appetite, but even consume them due to the high temperature inside and outside. , causing the cat to vomit and liver damage.

Of course, in the usual feeding choices, we can’t choose especially iced food, because the cats are naturally delicate in the stomach, and they are easily stimulated by the iced food to the stomach and cause diarrhea. Therefore, among low-calorie foods, in addition to some canned cat food and cat food clearly marked, foods with high protein and low calorie like fish are very suitable for cats to eat in summer.

Although in the past impression, it is natural for cats to like to eat fish, but the shit shoveling officer who has raised cats should know that compared with chicken breast and some cat food, cats do not seem to like fish so much. Therefore, when feeding the mermaid meat, try not to feed it with the food that it liked to eat before.

In addition, in summer, the shovel officer should also pay special attention to the frequency of water changes. Because the water can easily get hot in summer, and it is more likely to stick to cat hair, dust and other bacteria-bearing things. Therefore, frequent water changes are also an important way to ensure that cats can escape the heat from the inside out. Moreover, in summer, cats are much more dependent on water than in winter.

Repairing cat hair is not just shearing

In order to let the cat escape the heat, some shit shovelers like to roughly cut the cat’s hair very short or even bald. But in fact, if the cat is directly changed from a “long-haired cat” to a “short-haired cat”, it will lead to the situation that the cats do not adapt to the surrounding environment and become sick due to bacterial infection. Because cat hair not only has the function of keeping warm, but also has the purpose of defending against bacteria.

Therefore, if you want to solve the cat’s summer heat problem through the hair, it is best not to cut it roughly, but to thin it appropriately. In short, it reduces the density of cat hair so that it does not block the body from the air. In this way, when the cat licks its own fur, it will not be unable to lick it. Of course, thinning is also an appropriate amount. If the thinning is too much, it may also disrupt the cat’s normal physiological law of adapting to environmental changes.

In addition, it should be noted that the perspiration position of cats is not on the back where the cat is most dense, but on the soles and abdomen where there is relatively less cat hair. Anyone who has ever owned a cat knows that in summer, cats’ paws are particularly wet, which is how they sweat. Therefore, compared to repairing the places where the hair is concentrated, it is the key to focus on combing the hair of the limbs.

In fact, I believe that most cat lovers know the most basic truth about avoiding the heat for cats. It’s just that the understanding and carefulness of the detailed steps may be slightly lacking. Although many cats have their own ways to escape the heat, for the long-term health of the cats, as the owner, you should help the cats as much as possible to escape the heat scientifically.