Here it lays before me, a fluffy peach lump with sensitive, hardly the raised ears - my cat Funtik. Near to it, held with a tenacious cat's pad, the semitorn apart rag mouse - an obedient victim of entertainments in wakefulness is based. Even to look at this living thing - pleasure, to squeeze it, to scratch behind ears, to kiss on a nose... Stop! And here it, appears, is fraught with troubles. Because my small Funtik, as well as any other cat or a cat, can appear a carrier of all infection and a source of many troubles. So now and to touch it it is impossible, and a toilet tray to wash in rubber gloves? And how in general it is possible to combine impetuous love of owners to the house pupil with rules of protection from the various diseases cats become which carriers often? And cats would be quite good for protecting from these troubles.

Worms

Whence? Worms of a cat can catch through crude meat, river fish. Besides cats adore to hunt on flies with whom so it is pleasant to have dinner. And flies before it sat... To put it mildly, it is not known where. Result - the larvae which have got to an organism of worms.

True sign. The cat assiduously represents "sled", squatting on hinder legs and scraping a back part by the ground. If it occurs not right after toilet visitings (some irresponsible cats thus wipe to the priest), and how from that from this - means, the itch of back pass caused by worms became the reason.

The transfer moment is, about, horror! - that harmless kiss in a nouse, in eyes, even stroking its fur. After all the seal for a minute before could lick a back place where just and eggs of worms gather. And you after stroking and kisses have forgotten to wash hands and have sat down to have supper. Or simply an apple have eaten. Also the scenario for a film of horrors about hit of "strangers" in an organism is already ready.

Treatment. Tablets from worms for cats - such as "Febtalе", "Panakur", "Drontal", - is in the majority of pet-shops. And too it is necessary for owners to spend on drink worms medicine  as serious by-effects from these preparations it is not observed.

Preventive maintenance. Not to feed a cat with crude fresh-water fish and meat. Some advise completely to translate an animal on a dry feed and canned food. Regularly to wash the cat's bowls, and also to wash hands after everyone "an ironing session", not to kiss a cat. And for especially tender owners who squeeze the cats on hundred times on day (to wash hundred times in day of a hand is from fantasy area) an exit one - kill the worms that is to banish worms (even if they are not present) at a cat, and at the same time and at themselves, times in half a year.

True sign. At cats - characteristic "bald spots" on a wool nearby ears, a tail, on paws. At people disease first signs usually appear for 4-7th day after contact to a sick animal in the form of 1-2 large or several small roundish or oval centres of pink colour on opened, and sometimes and on the closed sites of a body. Stains quickly increase in size and in quantity. There can be also centres baldness on a head. From here also there was an illness name - "cutting deprive".

The transfer moment. Any close dialogue with the infected animal or subjects with which such animal just contacted, and also to the polluted sand, for example in children's sandboxes. Kids often bring from street of vagrant kittens, play with them, bathe, start up in the bed and thus catch microsporiya.

Treatment. If you or your child are already infected, as soon as possible address in the nearest kozhno-venereologic establishment. In an arsenal of doctors-dermatologov there is a wide range  preparations. In the first days when there are first stains on a skin, illness to cure easily but when the centres arise on a head among hair, course of treatment is extended till 1,5-2 months.

Preventive maintenance. Do not allow the child to take on hands of street cats. If you have taken pity over ill kitten and have decided to take away unfortunate to yourself home, take it in gloves and, having placed in a basket for resocks of animals, carry to the veterinary surgeon. Gloves after that are better for throwing out (alternative: to give a wash in a washing machine), a basket - carefully to disinfect. If to the veterinary surgeon this very day you do not get - grease the amazed places of an animal with iodine by means of a wadded stick.

Illness of the cat's scratches


The true sign is absent. The cat is infected or not - it is possible to learn, unfortunately, only after it has bitten or has scratched you. If your child actively plays with a kitten, probe its lymph nodes - their increase can specify in illness of the cat's scratches.

Treatment. If illness progresses, the doctor appoints antibiotics. In heavy cases hospitalisation is required.

Preventive maintenance. Be cautious, playing with kittens. Not to admit an artful and sharp-clawed attack on your leaving naked feet, carry houses trousers, instead of shorts or dressing gowns. If contact to claws to avoid it was not possible - there and then disinfect scratches, greasing them  iodine.


Preventive maintenance. Meat for you and your cats should pass full culinary processing. Besides during pregnancy there is a fine occasion to entrust cooking of the meat dishes which well boiled thoroughly and have been fried, and also cleaning of the cat's toilet to the careful husband. Put on gloves, working in a garden. If you had been ill тtoksomaplakos to pregnancy, and at all to worry it is not necessary. This disease can be "picked up" only once in a life.

If you have decided to protect the health, and also health of the beloved seal, take into consideration recommendations of doctors about carrying out of preventive actions since the earliest childhood of your pupil:
The first medicine for worms - 11th week of a life;
The second medicine - 16th week;
The first inoculation from infectious diseases - 7th week;
The second inoculation - 9th week;
Inoculation from furiousness (only for the cats, let out to walk on street) - since 3 months, then annually;
The third medicine for worms - in 6 months;
The third inoculation from infectious diseases - since 6 months, then annually.
Well and about itself favourite to forget it is not necessary. The reasonable safety measures described above, will relieve you of superfluous problems. After all the healthy mistress is necessary to your seal.