The cat entered the old age over 10 years old. The cat enters the old age. The aging is all comprehensive. The skin tone is not shiny, the hair is messy, the hair is faltering, the movement is inconvenient to eat, the less nutrition is, and the nutrition obtains naturally less naturally.In addition, elderly cats are more sensitive to changes in the environment, and have stronger stress on the outside world. At the same time, the body's immunity has decreased, and the probability of getting sick is greatly increased.
In fact, the elderly itself is not a disease, just a normal and complex biological process, but it will reduce the ability of cats to reduce the ability to maintain balance in the face of the internal physiology and external environment.It will weaken the ability to survive, increase the chance of disease infection, and even cause death; as far as it is concerned, the elderly will lead to the weakening of organ storage, regeneration, and adaptability
Cats entered the old age, were inconvenient to move, and staggered.
Due to the decline of teeth and smell, cats are not as good as before, and gastrointestinal digestion and absorption have decreased. Therefore, old cats are not easy to maintain their normal weight, and most cats become thinner.In order to maintain their healthy weight, food must be added to cats that are attractive to cats. The food provided can provide both high energy and easy digestion and absorption. The food should not be too hard to avoid difficulty chewing.
Due to metabolism, animals have produced many free radicals. These free radicals can cause oxidation reactions, destroy cell membranes, and shorten cell life.Due to the decline of the elderly cat, the ability to eliminate free radicals in the body is reduced. A large number of free radicals in the elderly cats exist, which has accelerated aging.A large number of studies have shown that vitamin C and E have anti -free radical oxidation effects, which can delay aging and enhance immune disease resistance.Therefore, the addition of vitamin C and E to elderly cat food is conducive to the healthy and longevity of elderly cats.
The elderly cats have insufficient energy supply due to the reduction of the amount of feeding, which is very unfavorable to its health and can also weaken its disease resistance and immune capacity. Therefore, elderly cats should feed high -quality protein, such as chicken, fish, eggs, etc.Provide high -quality protein and provide essential fatty acids.Essential fatty acids help elderly cats that are gradually scorched by the hair and remain soft and smooth.
The activity of aging cats decreases, gastrointestinal function weakens, and intestinal peristalsis is slow.Therefore, food needs to be increased in food to stimulate intestinal tract enhancement peristalsis and prevent constipation.Individual cats may also have obesity and overweight. At this time, the amount of food fed should be appropriately reduced to maintain their healthy weight.Old cats over the age of ten, the chances of urinary stones (bird's manure stones) have a decrease in urine, and should stop feeding foods that make cat urine acidified.The best pH value of elderly cat urine is 6.5 to 7, which is slightly alkaline to prevent the occurrence of oxalic acid urine stones. Adding alkaline substances (such as sodium bicarbonate) to elderly cats or feed elderly catsGrain can achieve this purpose.
Most of the cats over the age of seven have certain damage to the kidney function. Feming high -quality and high -protein foods will not cause the kidney function to increase the damage of the kidneys, but it can delay its development.High -protein -level foods can enhance the immune function of old cats, strong muscle exercise, and high health and longevity.If an aging cat kidney tissue or motor can be damaged by more than 75%, that is, when renal failure, the protein content in the food is needed.
Dental health is particularly important for elderly animals. Cats are particularly unable to endure the pain and illness of the oral cavity, which will cause appetite waste, lack of thirst, dehydration, and sleeping.Healthcare to prevent the disease from repeated or at least control.
We can adopt different methods through the recommendation of veterinarians or other professionals, such as dogs and cats, toothbrushes, toothpaste and other products, and give dry feed.Old cats should be combed regularly daily, which not only helps the health of fur, but also helps prevent the occurrence of abnormal behaviors.Many people think that old cats do not need to regularly prevent injections every year. This is quite wrong. Because immune capacity will decrease with age, for old cats, regular vaccination is more urgent.
The problem caused by the elderly is its own specificity, which is inseparable and progressive, and usually does not have any clinical symptoms.The care of the elderly cats should first confirm the changes and functional loss of some organs because of the elderly, and then the way of deciding can stop the problem.
Some diseases will occur in elderly cats, but even if they are not old -age diseases, old cats may not have enough ability to resist.When an old cat has a problem with a single organ, it may directly affect the relevant organs; it may also affect other organs due to the relationship between treatment.
Sorting and skin care for elderly cats will continue for a lifetime.When we comb their hair, we must observe the best opportunities to have potential problems with hair and skin examination by the way.At the same time, we must continue to focus on the anti -flea plan.Regular anti -flea is very important for elderly pets.Reducing active power and reduction of self -sorting can also make the flea unknowingly upper body, affecting the health of pets, quality of life, and the relationship between owners and pets.
Elderly cats should pay more attention to being cared by hair and skin
The health of elderly pet ears is also very important, and normal maintenance is the primary task.If the ear canal is too much blocked by the earwax, it will cause the mobility to decrease, because they can no longer hear the sound of the owner coming and going.If unfortunate deafness may often be scared inadvertently, causing random bite.Chronic bacterial otitis media may cause long -term discomfort in otitis media to affect the personality of pets and destroy the relationship between family members and pets.
Elderly pet nails also need to pay special attention, arthritis will also be more severe due to the long nails or distortions, and the pace of walking will change.Pets with too fast nail growth can maintain normal nail length and foot structure every 3 weeks.Elderly pets have more time to lie down or sleep, so bedsores are prone to occur.Pets that cannot control urination need to be kept clean, so as not to cause severe skin problems that cause stools left on the skin.Regularly sorting out and bathing allows the owners to find these problems early, so as not to be greatly improved by increasingly serious quality of their lives.
Let elderly cats live in a familiar quiet environment, try to avoid old cats out to prevent being bullied or hurt by other cats, do not let children frightened the elderly cats, avoid rejection of stress with a tough tone; pay attention to the elderlyThe supplement of cat vitamins, in short, don't feel that the cat is old, and it is disgusted if it is not flattering. It requires us to take care of it.