First of all, I would like to thank you for your love for those stray animals that lack food and water. Don’t look at them sunbathing at the root of the wall looking beautiful, but rain and snow lack of shelter, thirst and pain no one cares about the taste of how many people understand it. Thank you for bringing it home and giving it a loving and warm future.
Adopt a stray cat, no matter how old it is we have to do a few things:
Ⅰ Medical checkup After all, it is a child who has been wandering, and a cat’s life with too many stories is usually accompanied by a lot of hidden injuries. Bringing it for a detailed medical checkup is a good opportunity to understand it, which can help us judge from which aspects we should give it better care in the future. Of course, this is also an important behavior to protect ourselves, zoonosis, good prevention is not a threat.
Suggested physical examination items: 1
Physical Examination
Similar to the human physical examination, look at the cat’s weight, body temperature, heart rate, respiration, teeth and mouth good or bad and so on. This is the most intuitive manifestation of the cat’s physical condition. 2
Parasite check and deworming
This is a checkup program to protect your cat and yourself. Roundworms, tapeworms, heartworms, coccidia, trichomonas, toxoplasmosis, all can be checked and removed. Of course, external parasites (lice, fleas, ticks, etc.) are the same and should be dewormed.
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Virus monitoring and vaccination
If you are worried about your cat getting sick, you can have it tested for viruses. If the virus test is negative, or the cat’s other physical examination items are all normal, half a month after picking up the cat home, you can give it to go to the vaccination (vaccination, Ma Ma no longer worry about the nest easily infected with feline distemper). Remember to also play rabies vaccine oh, to protect the cat also protect themselves.
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Other tests recommended by the doctor according to the cat’s physical state
Each story of the meow body state has its own characteristics, so all the checks should still be based on the doctor’s judgment after seeing the cat. 鈪 living supplies rations, food bowl water bowl; cat litter, cat litter box; nest, toys …… more than not to say, just buy as needed. Every cat slave has a bunch of master’s living supplies in his home, which is something everyone on earth knows, not much to say.
Ⅲ Cleaning As a veterinarian, I think that a good exorcism of in vitro worms can be led to the home (although many owners do not think so). Cat owners have temperaments and bathing a cat before it has had much time to mingle is actually very likely to make the cat blow up. It’s possible to scare your cat into fighting back, straining, hiding, brooding and even getting sick. When cleaning, you must grasp the degree, gentle, must be gentle ah.
ⅣIsolation This is especially applicable to multi-cat households. The relationship between cats and cats, and whether there are any undiscovered potential diseases have to be resolved during isolation, so isolation and observation is especially recommended for multi-cat households. The observation period can be tentatively set at half a month, and the personality and disease status can usually be found clearly during this period. Of course, if the cat you are going to take home is an orphaned cat, on the basis of the above points, you may need to stock up on some basic knowledge for the nanny.
Welcoming a stray cat home is a very big decision, besides the time, energy and money spent, it is a confirmation of responsibility and a lifetime commitment. As animal lovers, we certainly hope that the number of adoptions will increase and the number of stray animals will decrease; however, before making this decision, please consider carefully whether you are able to do so: “Whether poor or rich, in health or in sickness, I will love and respect you until death do us part”.