One of the two most important tasks a cat has to do before it officially becomes a member of your family is vaccination and the other is deworming. Vaccinations are usually carried out in professional pet stores or vets, while deworming can be carried out by the pooper scooper himself. So, how do you deworm your cat? Today’s lesson is about internal and external deworming for cats. The cat is infected with parasites through oral infection, such as swallowing infective eggs or larvae when eating or drinking, or eating a host with larvae, such as cockroaches. 2. There is also the possibility of transmission to the nursing kittens through milk, such as Toxoplasma gondii. 3. Skin infection, infective larvae can directly penetrate the cat’s skin and burrow into its body to parasitize the parasitic site, such as hookworm larvae. 4. Mosquito transmission, such as mosquitoes can transmit heartworm larvae. 5. Contact infection, direct contact between a healthy cat and a sick cat, parasites will be transmitted from the sick cat to the healthy cat, such as mites, lice and fleas. 6. Indirect contact infection, if the owner touches the hand of the sick cat without disinfection and directly touches the healthy cat, or if the healthy cat touches the supplies used by the dog or cat carrying the parasite, the parasite may also be transmitted. Indirect contact infection is not limited to the above two ways. For cats, the threat of parasites is almost everywhere, and even if they are well protected, it is difficult to avoid these parasites that cannot be seen by the naked eye from taking advantage of the opportunity to enter. So don’t take any chances and make sure to deworm your cat regularly. The first deworming for young cats should start at about 2 and a half months of age, that is, after the cat has been successfully weaned. Generally, cats between 2 and 6 months of age should be dewormed once a month. 2. Adult cats should be dewormed in vivo and in vitro at least once every six months or annually. 3. Free-ranging cats, or cats with multiple cats and dogs living together, should preferably be dewormed once every 3-6 months. 4. If the cat is a domestic only cat, it may depend on the feeding situation, such as not giving the cat raw meat and raw egg food, but only with 5. For pregnant and lactating female cats, deworming should be carried out 10 days before delivery and 2-4 weeks after the lactation period. III. The choice of deworming medicine for cats The main way of internal deworming is to remove the parasites in the digestive tract of cats by taking deworming medicine. This deworming medicine can be bought in professional pet stores and vet hospitals. The in vitro deworming method is to achieve the purpose of deworming by appropriately dripping the deworming medication on the body so that the medication penetrates into the cortex, and there are two types of drops and sprays. IV. Practical operation of deworming In vivo deworming: 1. The amount of in vivo deworming medication deworming medication is toxic, so it must be fed in accordance with the instructions. 2. Before and after the deworming of the cat, the cat should be dewormed 3 to 4 hours after eating the food and fasted for 5 or 6 hours after feeding the deworming medicine to ensure the effectiveness of the medicine. 3. It is best to consult a doctor. In vitro deworming: Cats should be bathed before in vitro deworming and wait until the skin is completely dry before external deworming, and do not bathe the cat again until the deworming medicine expires. To prevent cats from licking their bodies after using deworming medication, they can be given a shame ring. In vitro deworming is also divided into drops and sprays. Then lightly wipe the cat’s face. The spray is applied by grabbing the back of the cat’s neck at the back and spraying the whole body wet, not forgetting the face as well as the tail part. To avoid spraying the medicine directly on the face, you can first spray the spray onto a clean cloth. 1. Do not use the medicine on the broken skin of the cat. 2. Do not externally repel the medicine by adding it to the bath water. Cats have a special skin structure and toxic substances can penetrate through the skin, plus cats have the habit of licking their fur, so using deworming medication in this way can lead to cat poisoning. 3. Try not to use a deworming collar. Many deworming collars are mostly made of dichlorvos, which is highly toxic and harmful to cats.
