What if you picked up an animal in the street

Go to the vet

better just head to a nearby veterinary clinic. Do not engage in self-treatment, because an animal is likely exhausted. The wrong treatment (or dose) in this case could be fatal for it. In the clinic, please, that the animal is picked up from the street.

Be sure to get tested:

• scraping from the internal surface of the ear for the presence of the ear tick;
• wool on zoster (inspection is performed using a special lamp);
• for infections. They are prescribed by a doctor for survey results. Most likely, it will be tested for feline panleukopenia, peritonitis, immunodeficiency, leukemia, kaltsiviroz, mycoplasmosis, chlamydiosis or toxoplasmosis.

Ask your doctor whether there is a flea on the animal, specify the approximate age. This is especially important for very young animals. Alas, the worms from a street animal will necessarily be, so you need to get rid of them in any case.

If you handle the animal from fleas, it is necessary to wait for three days before moving on to de-worming. By this time, we will be ready to test results. After that, treat the animal on the advice of a doctor.

If you have other pets at home, be sure to tell the vet to figure out where to put the new animal at the time, as long as you rent and do analyzes its treatment.

Wash your pet and get rid of fleas

If a veterinarian is satisfied that the animal has no denying, that a cat or dog is better to wash. Suitable special shampoo for animals, which is sold in the veterinary product. If that does not happen, you can dilute baby shampoo with water at a ratio of 1: 4 and they wash the animal, and then dry with a towel. If the doctor finds zoster, then immediately ask than to treat it. He quickly and easily displayed.

If the animal has fleas, treat with medicine that the vet suggested. It may be in the form of drops, sprays, tablets, collar.

For young kittens or puppies (less than a month) and debilitated individuals drugs are not suitable. They definitely need to collect fleas by hand and tighten the collar from fleas in a bed where the animal, or pour into it tansy and wormwood. This is an old but very effective way.

Keep in mind that fleas leave with the animal, but they need to be processed for an apartment or room, for example, means such as "Neostomazan". After rinsing means all the surfaces are safe for mammals.

Get vaccinated

First, the treated animals from worms. If your puppy or kitten more than six months, buy a remedy for worms. Degelmintiki may be in the form of tablets, suspensions or drops on the withers. For example, drop on the withers "Profender" tablets "Milbemaks" or suspension "Prazitsid".

Carefully read the instructions before using drugs!

The instructions indicate the number of funds that should be used in calculating the age and weight of the animal. Please do not compromise on these medications. Low quality means can cause irreparable harm. Some pills should be given twice. This is also written in the instructions.

If after 10-14 days after deworming (reception of the last portion of the drug from intestinal worms), the animal looks healthy (eating, drinking, going to the toilet, playing), you need to turn again to the veterinarian and make vaccinations. A specific list you inform your doctor. They should be done not earlier than kitten It is three months or puppy two month.

Find out when you need to re-inoculation and do not forget about it. Buy a special animal passport and make sure that the doctor has a mark on all vaccinations. It is much quicker and cheaper to take care of pet's health beforehand than to cure it later.

Remember that even a pet can become infected. Vector control can serve as footwear, outerwear, handbags.

Take care of castration

If your pet is old enough to write it down castration about a month after the last vaccination.

The optimum age for castration:

• Cat - 8 months;
• cat - from 7 months (the age at which the first estrus usually begins);
• bitch - from 6 months old (need to have time before the first heat);
• male - from 6 months.

Females neutered highly desirable - completely surgically remove all the reproductive organs (ovariohysterectomy). So in the future it will save your pet from a number of diseases (endometritis, pyometra, tumors) and provide you with peace instead of listening to songs during estrus.

Do not attribute emotions to animals, which they do not - "She / he wants to be a mother / father", "She should at least once to give birth", "Men's / women's solidarity". Remember that you are responsible for your pet's health.

If the veterinary clinic has its own hospital, the animal after surgery may remain there for a few hours under the supervision of a physician. Provide the animal necessary things. You will need:

• carrying. It may be plastic with a metal grating or a door-closing tightly with a solid bottom;
• tray filler and a special scoop for cleaning;
• scratching posts for cats;
• diapers for small dogs;
• collar and leash for dogs;
• bowls for food and water;
• toys.

Do not forget about proper nutrition

Power cats up to a month

To supply the perfect little kittens find a cat that would agree to bring up other people's cats, but this is not always realistic. You can do this on their own. Fed kittens in a vertical position so that the kitten's head was above the body of the pipette or syringe 20, vat, allowing the kittens suck on their own. So they will not get lost reflex.

We need to feed every 2-3 hours every day, and without much help kittens start to eat about three weeks after birth. When a kitten turns two weeks, you can leave one night feeding interval while maintaining the day feeding, and after a month of feed every day for 3-4 hours and once at night.

A good substitute for mother's milk can serve substitute Kitty Milk. If you can not use it, then try the following products for kittens: a medley of "Baby", the dry infant formula, goat milk, condensed milk without sugar and cow's milk. If you are feeding a goat or cow's milk, then add the glucose. Cow's milk is used for feeding kittens only in extreme cases.

kittens need provide temperature of at least 30 degrees. You can put them in a box, and the desired temperature to maintain heaters. Always close the carton, if the kittens under the age of two weeks.

Inspect your pet, a kitten with a slightly damp wipe with a thick cloth. massage the belly and inside of the thighs kitten before and after feeding to relieve his toilet.

Nutrition older cats months

The usual for us food is not suitable animals, so do not fertilize them on the table, do not mix natural food and specially Manufactured food - it will cause disease in your pet (eg chronic kidney disease). You need to feed a vegan organic food and food bought in a store.

If you decide to feed the cat food, There is a very important part - the first two ingredients should be meat with a specific type (beef, turkey, chicken). Fodder is poured, focusing at a rate that is indicated on the package.

Feed can be dry feed or to combine it with a mild (it is sold in the spider). In this case it is necessary to focus on the proportions specified in the pack. Feed should be of the same brand.

It is also imperative for constant access must be clean water. If the cat is drinking enough water, you need to think about the complete replacement of dry food to wet. Not buy food for cats without ash content. It should be no more than 6%, or such feed can promote urolithiasis because a high magnesium content.

The transition from one feed to another must be carried out gradually (within 7-10 days) by mixing two feed and increasing the percentage of new feed. Dogs and cats useful feed sprouted grass, purchased or grown on their own.

Mix artificial and natural feed can not be - it's different types of food, to each of which the animal should get used to.

You can feed the cat kind food. The list of required products include:

• Dairy products: kefir (1% fat content, which is constantly being opened in the refrigerator for three days), the curd (Fat content of less than 9%), yogurt, hard unsalted cheese, sour cream (10% fat, before being diluted with warm water). The products should not be salt, pepper, sugar. Fermented foods should be given to cats daily.
• Meat. It can be fed beef, free from films, bone and fat. It is necessary to give promorozhennaya (this is the meat for 2-3 days in the freezer and thawed to food intake) in order to avoid the appearance of parasites. Boiled meat pet is better not to feed, because there is no such amount of beneficial nutrients in cheese.
• A fish. Two or three times a week can be given to lean fish fillets.
• Offal. The heart can be added to the diet 1-2 times a week, the liver - 1 time per week. Everything else - chopped 1 time per month. Offal - optional power component, which is used for the expansion of the diet.
• Bird. Lean chicken, deboned and skin, the cat is fed wet. Such meat may be poorly absorbed vaccinated individuals, so be careful.
• Vegetables. Not red and not sweet. Well suited green lettuce, zucchini, apples are not red. All must be in raw form, chopped or grated. Served with fish or meat.
• Vegetable oil. Best olive oil. One teaspoon of oil is added to the meat.

Note that feeding natural food is not always possible due to diseases such as diabetes, allergies, kidney stones.

Meals dogs up to a month

Cow's milk is not well suited for feeding puppies. To increase its value, mix the milk with the egg. 150 ml milk required single egg. You can use unsweetened condensed milk. It is necessary to add a fifth of the water.

The most simple and useful for puppies is to use special mixtures for nutrition. Cooking can be just for two days, dividing into portions and warming to 38 degrees.

Better fed through a conventional baby bottle with a pacifier, but make sure that the puppy is not swallowed air and sucking on their own. The approximate number of calories that should get a puppy per day per kilogram of their body weight is 120 in the first week, 140 the second, 160 third and 180 in the fourth.

Meals dogs over a month

Choose Your food: dry food or natural food. As is the case with cats, you can not mix versions of food.

In the first place should be the meat: chicken, turkey, beef. Even better, if it is present in the form of flour and boneless. Avoid the phrase "By-products" - that word may be hiding bird waste: paws, claws, head, feathers. The presence of cardiac or liver food is welcome. Do not feed the composition of which you do not understand.

When natural food is necessary to observe some rules. You can not have one side by side feeding meat and dairy products. Meat mix with vegetables, add vegetable oil and fresh herbs. For puppies and adult debilitated individuals boiled meat. Their digestive system may be too weak to digest the raw meat.

Dog best to feed:

• Meat. It gives a raw, promorozhennaya (this is the meat for 2-3 days in the freezer and defrosted food to the reception) or to a state of half-cooked. The required amount of meat - 15-25 grams per 1 kilogram of the dog's weight. The exact rate will help determine the vet, who will take into account various factors, such as age and activity of the dog. A staple diet of meat - lean beef. Do not let the dog ground beef and pork in any form. You can feed the rabbit, horsemeat, lamb, animal by-products. Poultry meat and offal are optional and are used to expand the diet.
• Fish. The dog may be given 1-2 times a week promorozhennaya sea or boiled river fish. Do not forget to remove all the bones from the fish.
• Dairy products. This is an important part of dog food. Dairy products should account for almost half of the daily diet. Best suited cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt and yogurt; milk should not be given. Sometimes it can be added to dairy products, a teaspoon of honey.
• Vegetables. Almost all vegetables are suitable. They can be combined in one meal. Useful herbs - dill, parsley, sorrel.
• Cereals. They are used only in those cases, if you can not feed a dog other products. Cereals hardly absorbed by the body of dogs, but they give a feeling of satiety. Cook them like you can on the meat and the vegetable broth. For cooking broth using bones. Raw meat added later. Use rice, buckwheat, sometimes peas (half of the usual amount of grits), barley grits, oatmeal. Cereals can be mixed together.

The dog must necessarily be clean water in sufficient quantity in a bowl.

Do not let the adult dogs to gnaw the bones, they grind their teeth on. In addition, if the bone crumble, and the dog will eat the pieces, you can damage the stomach. It is better to buy a pet from a pet store bone. They are safe for animal and not harmful teeth.

Ensure the safety of your pet

Protect your pet. Do not let the cats in the street, there for them too dangerous: the disease infected or poisoned food, cars, dogs, cruel people. Replace the grid box "Antikoshka". Conventional mosquito net is not designed to keep the animals and can easily break under their weight.

You need to walk the dog on a leash and muzzled. Muzzle is needed not only to protect passers-by from the dog, but also to protect it from being accidentally poisoned by eating contaminated food, or on the street.

Puppy to two months enough to walk an hour a day, but during its habituation to the toilet number of yards can reach four, then reduced to two a day. Adult dogs need to walk at least an hour a day.

Teach the dog teams - it is much easier for you to walk. Simple commands "Next", "To me", "sit", "Fu", "Sic 'will allow better control of the dog.

The main thing - love and patience

Keep an eye on the health of animals. If you feel that a pet illBehaves strangely and sluggishly, not too lazy to take him to the vet as soon as possible. In the veterinary clinic tell the doctor that came to the annual medical examination, you will be called a minimum set of tests. This simple way you can extend the life of the favorite.

Give your pet time. Animal need love and patience. If you give them, it will love you back.

Whether you want to teach him to bring you slippers or enough that he happily welcomes you to the threshold of the house, in any case, it is necessary time and attention to training. Let him tasty treat, if it executes the commands and behaves obediently.