Watch day cold. People gradually changed warm coats, even the dogs are put on clothes. Go And who knows, this time, a terrible “clutches are unprepared to the cat? Frostbite, winter cats are harming enemies and many cats.
Frostbite:
Just as its name implies, frostbite is exposed to a long time in tissue damage. Cold winter, or is it snows all the best time is damaged. Cats, for day and night not out of the pet cat is basic won’t have this kind of danger, the most common appeared frostbite is vagrant cats and breeding.
Although many people don’t think MaoHuHu cat would so afraid of cold, but, frostbite often unknowingly find long time in cold area activities of cats. Winter rain, but also dozen wet cat’s fur, let it loses heat preservation effect.
Tips: the house cats will frostbite
Actually, if the cats had can adapt to the cold weather, normal diet, and have appropriate protection fur was soaked in, it is seldom happens frostbite. But for the young cat, small, short hair, sick cat or old cat, suddenly hotter temperatures by to cold places, or in any cold weather has been soaked fur, even if a very short time, will hurt.
At 18 degrees ~ 29 degrees, less than 4 weeks between the cat cat or a companion with can be separated, hypothermia happens. When you think the safety of the cold weather, should not let cats stay outdoors.
Frostbite:
Frostbite is often occur in erjian and foot pads. Just started frostbite period is the white skin looks and feels cold and pain stimilus, then skin necrosis and will fall. When milder, frostbite, but won’t fall off the skin and hair will drop light out again, But though black hair before, but to grow hair is white.
Frostbite:
The cat found most often in ear frostbite areas, claws, and tail.
Generally, we will be in accordance with the extent of damage to frostbite classification:
1 mild frostbite.
The skin or subcutaneous tissue oedema appears pain. Pain is not very strong, good luck, after a few days will disappear. This kind of frostbite though sad but not serious, not only need to fear, especially for certain treatment can wounds.
2 moderate frostbite.
The skin and subcutaneous tissue oedema appears chunk, and spread all around. Sometimes appear blisters, bubble burst, ulcers, causing a wound healing cannot. This class will be very severe frostbite, the cat will be very painful, and there will be the risk of infection. Some simple processing to the hospital is the most reliable.
3. Severe frostbite.
Because of the cold temperature wounds will lose lost consciousness, the skin and subcutaneous tissue necrosis, also can produce a large surrounding edema. Soon, wound healing, can produce gangrene is likely to slow, and rotting infection. So serious injuries are very rare, but, delay, wound infection may even have dangerous life, so, or immediately to the hospital, the doctor provides emergency treatment for good.
Hypothermia:
Another kind of strict on the cold damage is not frostbite of hypothermia. Excessive cold will maintain the normal visceral cat loses a temperature, cold, rigid body can cats, and shock. If not, will probably die.
Hypothermia symptoms include reduced alertness, trembling, pulse weak pulse, or no heart slows, shallow breathing and slow. When the temperature is below the 32 degrees cats will stop shivering, And when the temperature in 23 degrees below tend to death.
Hypothermia emergency: find such a cat, not bear electricity heating disorderly blow, should immediately with a blanket or quilt wrapped insulation, quickly go animal hospital treatment.
Tips: although frostbite and hypothermia often occur at the same time, but the cat was severe frostbite disease will not necessarily formation of hypothermia.
Frostbite emergency:
Frostbite and hypothermia nursing is the most important is to help as soon as possible.
If the animal hospital nearby, don’t handle, immediately with a blanket or any other things can be heat preservation, wrapped with it to the cat hospital as soon as possible.
If no nearby hospital, they need to act decisively and disposed of.
Can dispose of status:
1 frostbite, not with hypothermia:
Absolutely not to rub the injured parts! Just 39-40 degrees of warm water for injuries, or use wet towel to cover wound also. If successful, the temperature to handle the injured skin quickly regained consciousness, pink. Cat from frostbite threat.
Tips: if the skin is damaged, the method is used to heat.
2 hypothermia, but remained in 30 degrees above:
Hypothermia happens to the cat to warm indoor, use warm blanket. Can use the blanket will warm water and cat package together, it can make temperature rising rapidly. If use electric blanket to isolate back cushion, also can use, but need often transform temperature cat posture to prevent burns. If there is a hair dryer or electric heater, can give a warm cat immediately after drying skin, also can have good effects.
Anyhow, must be maintained in the cat’s temperature above 378,000, until it’s temperature returned to normal temperature.
Tips: use microwave oven heated water bag can hold water.
In addition to the above two conditions, to let the doctor to hospital as soon as possible, lest delay condition.
Prevention frostbite:
Prevention is damaged, anyway, don’t let kitten cold and wet. At this point, we can do is limited. Will indoor temperature control in warm state is very easy, but take care to stray cats and cats will go too.
We can do:
1 in the snow, the yard as soon as possible after a clearing snow area, best can still have a piece of ceiling, help stray cat safe.
2. Especially cold weather, give the vagrant cats are some heat higher food.
3 many buildings are heating pipes in the side of the mouth, don’t closed there! In winter, warm and dry channel is the paradise of stray or feral cats.
Tips: a preventive frostbite products
Beaphar dogs and cats in propolis armor palm
Protect dogs and cats in the foot by friction with the movement of the damage, because it too hot or too cold, dry and damaged caused damage repair the foot to prevent infection.
Brand Beaphar viper
150ml product specifications
Raalte B.V. Beaphar producers
Origin in the Netherlands
Use 2-3 times per week, direct spray on foot. Do not jet eyes and nose.
Stray cat to a little care:
The cold winter, the most vulnerable to injury is stray cats. If you found serious loss of temperature on the side of the road, please cat stun must help it! If not convenient, can wait until after restoring put it out. Love is the small animals, around the world love us.
