Grooming is an essential part of being a cat owner, it is an integral component to ensure your feline friends’ health. Considering your cat as a baby, you will recognize this process is not an easy job for everyone without learning properly.
Let The Tails Zone list down 6 common mistakes that most cat owners encounter, which can be prevented by a professional cat grooming service.
1. Not groom regularly
When was the last time you get your cat groomed? Whether the gap is similar between his/her grooming sessions? If you have a short-hair furry baby, it definitely give you more time between each grooming sessions, while a long-hair cat may need them more often.
Being fail to get your cat groomed frequently will cause cats’ matted fur and long nail, even pesky flea or dreaded furball. Make sure you set your cats’ grooming scheduled frequently to avoid all potential risks.
2. Too-often bathing session
Being clean is good, but your cat will surely say no if bathing happens too often. Basically, average time to bath a cat is after 1 month. A too-frequent bathing will irritate the skin and also remove all natural oil in your pets’ skin, making it dry too much.
3. Not brush before getting wet
Why their furs need to be brushed before bathing? The answer is to loosen their hidden dead hair and remove tangled hair, which makes their bathing experience much better. With this step, you will find it easier and faster to clean their wet coat.
4. Also, not brush after getting wet
Either before and after the bathing session, brushing is important with exactly same reason. However, for this step, you need to remember: Don’t b-rush with brush after bathing! Wet coat is super delicate, which needs more gentle to be brushed.
5. Use human shampoo
The most common and also harmful mistake is using human shampoo on cats. Our pH is different from furry friends, so our shampoo can lead to irritation and inflammation of theirs.
Besides, there are many ingredients in human shampoo including sulfates or parabens which is potentially cause cats’ kidney and liver damage once being used often. Even baby shampoo is also not recommended to use for cats.
6. Unpleasant nail clipping session
If you cats enjoy their nail clipping session, you are one of the minority lucky pet owners. Naturally, cats don’t prefer being touched on their paw or nail, which makes us try to rush the clipping process and potentially cause an injury.
If you are not confident to get your cats’ nail trimmed yourself, don’t be hesitate to use a professional service at The Tails Zone with affordable fee. Also, we have all cat-friendly tools as well as well-trained staffs to ensure your cats’ grooming session smoothly.
You are only one call away to let The Tails Zone assist you in this essential process and return your cat in a better version!