How to take care of your Sphynx?

Living with a Sphynx is a guarantee that you will not have to deal with hair, especially if you are allergic to it. However, the nudity of this atypical cat generates sweating concerns and a particular approach to maintenance. Some tips to help you take good care of your Sphynx. And if you need the best one, here you can buy sphynx cats.

The Sphynx and sweating

Due to the lack of fur, the Sphynx sweats a lot and you will find that there will be a brown mark on its bunk, especially in an 18-month-old cat in the middle of his teenage years. To remedy this, people tend to take more baths, but on contact with the shampoo, the cat's skin will produce even more sebum. At best, give it a limited number of baths, as an adult cat will need 1 to 2 baths per year, and this gesture only serves to accustom the kitten. As for the duration of the bath, it is limited to 3 minutes top Chrono, because the absence of hair will make your task much easier. But if you find that your Sphynx is sweating a lot, and there is grime between the folds of its skin, clean it with a damp glove. For the ears, use a special product and cut only the tips of the claws.

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The sphynx, although hairless, requires some care: your cat and your sofa will thank you if the various treatments are done regularly.

Ears:

Unlike other cats, the sphynx produces a lot of earwax. This earwax is a bodily reaction since the animal has no hair to protect it. Some veterinarians who do not know the sphynx, might think of gall, but do not panic it has nothing!

It is important to regularly cleanse the sebum from the ears using a cotton swab and ear milk or solution.

The frequency of cleaning is specific to each cat since from one animal to another the production of sebum is not the same, it is between 7 and 10 days.

The eyes:

Sometimes, and depending on the season, sphynx eyes may show some unsightly eye 'scabs' or poop. It is sometimes necessary to clean them gently, either with a moistened glove or with a standard eye solution.

Cleaning:

And yes, what a joy not to have hair to brush for hours! ... but we still have to take care of the skin of our babies.

The cat produces sebum by sweating, which is normally regulated by absorption by the hair, in the case of the sphynx, the sebum remains on the skin and can accumulate despite the cat taking care to groom itself regularly.

For the sake of your bed/sofa/armchair etc ... it is necessary to rid the skin of our sphynxes of this sebum: for this, I recommend several methods:

• that of the bath, radical, when the cat is really 'cracra'. Me the frequency is approximately every 3 to 6 months, I avoid baths as much as possible because the more you wash a sphynx the more its skin tends to grease. I use a special cat shampoo because the pH of their skin is different from that of our skin (therefore baby wipes or shampoos for 'bipeds' are to be avoided because they risk disturbing the bacterial flora and causing skin problems) . The water temperature should be 38 ° C. about.

• that of the washcloth moistened with lukewarm water, to pass as soon as the cat is a little dirty or in summer regularly when it is hot.

Claws:

The sphynx adoring to climb like a monkey on your shoulders, it will be necessary to regularly sharpen its claws using an appropriate tool. A vein passes through the cat's claw, more or less visible to the naked eye that must not be cut, at the risk of hurting the cat very much.