Grooming Persians: Giving a Persian Cat a Bath and Combing
Here is Laura's' Persian cat bath: Bathing your Persian is an easy job once you get the routine down. Your Kitty should most likely get a bath once per month if they have whats called a greasy coat, other wise every other month will do fine while you're not showing. BTW- you need a bath when you are starting to mat and or knot.
An Anna Tip: cat tips are found all throughout our site: "Do NOT use hydrogen peroxide, Gold Bond, Oxi-Clean, or toothpaste cleaners to remove tear-stains! These products are not only unsafe for use on animals, but also make the stain harder to clean up".
Its smarter than you think to either clip nails before you bathe than after. However, you can clip an experienced kitty at the end of the bath when the nails are soft from the bath water.
For more grooming help, see our Grooming Help page or check out our free Grooming 101 E-Course.
Blow-dry carefully, not allowing the cat to be burned. Move that dryer and don't leave it sitting aimed at one spot of the skin...it gets hot! For Persians, my favorite dryer is (Air Force Commander 2-Speed Dryer 4.0 HP Motor S .) You really don't need anything stronger than the lowest 1 horsepower speed. It blows the water off the coat with nice cool air. This also helps not dry the skin quite as bad as the hand-held dryers and it dries the coat in half the time.
Once a cat has been bathed, make sure the eyes do not have any soap in them. Flush or rinse them with an approved eyewash such as Tomlyn Opticlear (Tomlyn Opticlear Eye Wash 4oz.) If an eye drop is needed, I suggest Systane Ultra Eye Drops, Lubricant, High Performance (.33fl oz 10 ml) . Do not use anything that says it gets the red out.
Ok, how about grooming a Persian kitten? I actually use the above bath to bathe my kittens from 3 weeks of age. Just make certain to not get water in the ears and dry 100% to keep the cat from catching a cold!
Learn a visual step by step bath with our Baths DVD.
To learn how to solve a few of the main cat grooming problems, read these articles. The comb section, nail clipping tutor and cat stud tail help with pictures.
Laura Thomas' Hollywood Purr-fect Bath DVD is useful if you are interested to know more about grooming Persian cats, including giving Persian cat baths and her Ringside Edition for actual grooming and combing. Laura's DVD has step-by-step instructions on how to do this and you can watch the DVD as many times as you need.More Steps for the Persian Cat Bath.
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