Whether short or long, whether light or dark – the coat is the glory of every cat. This is how to care for a cat’s coat. Only when it shines and is well-groomed does it give the animals their elegant and graceful appearance. Find out in our guide how to help your cat change his coat.
The change of coat in spring and autumn is a time when your tummy tiger and his metabolism are working at full speed. After all, coat and skin make up about 15 to 20 percent of the entire cat’s body. It does not take much to actively support the cat.
1. Daily brushing.
Matching the hair length and texture of your purring pet, ZOO & Co. offers a wide selection of combs and brushes. Further tips for the grooming of shorthair and long hair cats can be found below in the article.
2. An adapted, protein-rich diet.
Biotins, B vitamins and essential fatty acids are also beneficial at this time to provide your cat with all the necessary nutrients.
In your ZOO & Co. specialty store, you can get supplements that can be added to regular food. This is more tolerable for your cat than a radical feed change. These remedies are available as a tablet, which is fed like a treat, or as a powder, which is mixed with the usual food. Skin and coat of the animal are strengthened so targeted from within.
3. Care for a cat’s coat: shorthair cats
Shorthair cats such as the Abyssinian, the British Shorthair, Devon Rex or Egyptian Mau are in principle quite well without additional grooming. For them, the weekly care is more of an extra pampering and massage. Only at the time of the coat change it should be daily as I said, to remove the loose hair regularly.
For cats with a lot of undercoat, it’s best to use a comb and then a natural hairbrush. For very short-haired breeds like the Burma or the Siam, a pimple glove and a damp leather cloth are often sufficient to loosen the dead hair.
4. Care for a cat’s coat: long-haired cats
With the length of the coat and the density of the undercoat, the care required for you as a cat owner increases. While it is usually sufficient for the so-called half-long haired cats, such as the Norwegian Forest Cat and the Maine Coon, to brush them twice a week outside of the coat change, it is recommended that cats such as the Persian be intensively groomed daily to care for a cat’s coat.
Longhair cats rely on your help when grooming. With tongue and paws alone they can not arrange their long coat. Daily combing and brushing with special care accessories is therefore essential in these animals, to prevent matting of the magnificent fur.
It’s best to get your cat used to the care ritual from an early age. Reward it with lots of pats and a little treat. So it will be a nice time of rest, which leads to silky-glossy and soft fur.
Cat self-washing
Cats take care of their fur for up to six hours a day. This is not just about beauty. The mass licking of the tongue stimulates the sebaceous glands to form skin fat and then helps to distribute it evenly over the coat. This makes the cat’s coat beautifully water repellent.
