Common causes of cat hair shedding
First, seasonal hair loss
A, the main reason for cat hair shedding is generally seasonal molting. When spring and summer come, cats should take off their fluff and put on fluffy coarse hair to help dissipate heat and block heat.
When autumn and winter come, cats should wear thick down to help them keep warm. When it's time for cats to change their hair, their owners must comb their hair frequently.
Second, excessive salt intake.
Cats don't need much salt, but they have poor taste. If you don't pay attention to your diet, too much salt will not only burden your cat's kidneys, but also cause your cat's hair to dry out.
Third, malnutrition.
If the cat's hair is dry and dull, it is easy to break and fall off, which may be the cat's malnutrition. Generally speaking, cats with weak gastrointestinal function, long-haired cats (such as Persian cats) and cats with single food are prone to hair loss due to malnutrition.
Four. cat tinea
If cats under one year old and cats over eight years old suddenly lose a lot of hair, and there is dander at the root of the hair, the hair will fall off when it is fragile, and even the skin will be exposed. The cat has become tinea versicolor, so it is necessary to go to the pet hospital for examination and treatment in time.
Correct treatment of cat hair loss
1, pay attention to a reasonable diet
(1) For cats with weak gastrointestinal function, it is necessary to start with regulating the intestines and stomach. We can feed them some high-energy probiotic powder to regulate their stomachs and ensure their hair and body health.
(2) For long-haired cats, it is difficult to meet the needs of hair care by absorbing nutrients at ordinary times. Lecithin nutritional granules can be given to cats, which is helpful for hair growth and contains trace elements to ensure cat hair health.
(3) For cats with single food and malnutrition, owners should know more about scientific cat raising. Take cat food as the staple food for cats every day, and occasionally give them instant nourishing cream, natural goat milk powder and other nutrients to make them have a balanced nutrition.
2. Appropriate salt intake
Cats should take low-salt cat food as their staple food, and don't give cats human-eating food. When cooking cat rice for cats occasionally, don't put salt and other condiments to ensure the healthy diet of cats.
3. Treat tinea felis reasonably.
Cat tinea is a very stubborn infectious skin disease. If you have a sick cat at home, you must pay attention to isolating the cat to avoid infecting other cats.
4, pet bath bath
Often give a cat a bath, cat hair removal phenomenon, sometimes not only occurs when the season gets warmer or colder. Be sure to bathe them in a special pet bath when taking a bath.
5. Comb your hair often
Brush cats once or twice a day with a special brush, so that the hair that naturally falls off can be concentrated on the brush, instead of letting their hair run around the house. In addition, in order to prevent the cat from getting hairball disease, during molting, you can give the cat full-effect nourishing hair cream to relieve the discomfort of the cat's stomach and help the cat discharge hairballs.
Step 6 exercise regularly
You can take your cat out to sunbathe every day to promote the absorption of calcium in your body.