What should I pay attention to when adopting stray cats? This article helps you answer

Pet 8:30am, 22 July 2025 100

What should I pay attention to when adopting stray cats? 1. First of all, make sure there is enough space in the home to accommodate new cats; 2. Arrange indoor spaces for new cats to move around; 3. Be patient to accept new changes brought by cats; 4. Give appropriate nutrition and comprehensive vaccination according to the age of the cat; 5. Give the cat enough love and care; 6. Try not to change the cat's name to avoid causing chaos; 7. Take the cat out for exercise regularly, but pay attention to safety; 8. Clean the cat's toilet regularly to maintain sanitation; 9. Make sure the cat always has enough water and food.

1. If you decide to take a stray cat home, you must pay attention to taking the cat to the hospital for examination first.

1. Check the body surface: Check whether there are any surface parasites, skin diseases or trauma. If necessary, timely treatment.

2. Check the ear: Check for ear mites and insist on taking medication if necessary.

3. Physical examination: Perform routine physical examinations such as blood draw to check whether there are infectious diseases, genetic diseases or other diseases. In case of subsequent normal immunity.

4. In-body and external deworming: Since stray cats often appear in dirty and messy places such as weeds and garbage dumps, deworming inside and outside is the most basic guarantee for their health. Especially if the cat has fleas, it is easy to spread to other cats or to people.

5. Vaccination: stray cats can usually be immunized for one week. Vaccines are very important and can help cats fight against many common infectious diseases.

6. Sterilization: I believe that everyone is willing to take stray cats home not for breeding. Therefore, for the health of the cat and avoiding trouble during the estrus, sterilization is also very important.

2. There are also many things to do after taking stray cats home

1. Take a bath and comb your hair and cut your nails: After the deworming and vaccines are all over, you can take the cat to take a bath and comb your hair. By the way, cut your nails to prevent cats from scratching people or damaging things at home. In the later stage, you also need to comb your cat's hair frequently, cut your cat's nails regularly, and bathe your cat when necessary. Keeping the cat clean and hygienic is not only comfortable to watch on your own, but also beneficial to the cat's health.

2. Reasonable diet: Many stray cats are affected by the living environment and are generally malnutrition or excessive obesity. Therefore, when feeding cats, you need to control the amount of food and nutritional combination. It is best to eat less and more meals, which can not only prevent cats from overeating or regulate their stomachs. If the cat is at the beginning of losing appetite or vomiting, you can feed the pet's special probiotics, or feed dry yeast tablets according to your weight.

3. Disinfection, sterilization, cleaning, sanitation, cleaning, sterilization, and disinfection at home are indispensable for cats’ health. Clean up frequently to prevent cats from developing skin or ear canal diseases.

4. Isolation

If there were cats at home, it is best to isolate them for a period of time after the stray cat comes. First, to avoid infectious diseases or the parasites not being removed from stray cats, and second, to avoid stress from cats, let the cats get familiar with each other first. Once you have confirmed that there is no other problem with the stray cat and are familiar with the native cats at home, you can live together.

5. Differentiation tools

is still for families with cats. If conditions permit, each cat should have its own separate tools, including but not limited to water bowls, rice bowls, sand bowls, etc. This will be cleaner and hygienic and reduce the probability of cross-infection.