Cats nose

Fridaycat

con1888 wrote: »

He does yes, what do you think I should get instead, ceramic or glass or metal?

I had a cat at my parents house and her nose was a black nose and always kind of moist so not used to this. His nose is gunky but looks scabby at the corners sometimes. I wiped the gunk with a baby wipe but he resists.

My cats have ceramic bowls for water (4 of them spread throughout the house and away from their food) and metal bowls for their food which are cleaned after every meal, wet or dry.

Desperado99

con1888 wrote: »

ps, I have never trimmed his claws. My cat at my parents never had her claws trimmed but she went outdoors from time to time. My cat is an indoors cat and doesn't really use his scratching post, well he does play with it and knock it over fighting with it but he doesn't use it to scratch. Is it okay to trim by myself or should that be done at the vets?

As FridayCat says you can do it as home, but we tend to go to the vet.

Ours is an older cat, so he doesn't wear his claws down as much as he needs to, which is why we have them trimmed.

h007

SnowyOwl wrote: »

My dear Teddy - now departed from this life - used to get a bit of black build up around his nostrils. I asked the vet and he said there was nothing there to worry about, and just clean it off for the sake of Teddy looking gorgeous. So that's what I did....I used to use my nail to just sort of dislodge it and take away. Teddy would wait for me to do it as it seemed to be a bit annoying for him have a snotty nose. I know I sound minging, but there ya go!

one of mine is the same - she has a pink nose and gets little black bogies that i either wipe or if only little i tend to leave them and they come off themselves

Slinky

con1888 wrote: »

I wiped the gunk with a baby wipe but he resists.

Probably doesn't like the smell of the chemicals. I just use a tissue on our cat.

spike7451

con1888 wrote: »

He does yes, what do you think I should get instead, ceramic or glass or metal?

I had a cat at my parents house and her nose was a black nose and always kind of moist so not used to this. His nose is gunky but looks scabby at the corners sometimes. I wiped the gunk with a baby wipe but he resists.

Daisy has some sloped sided soup bowls that I inherited from the works canteen & some saucers & a large steel bowl that has her water in.

con1888

Thanks will pick up new bowls next time I am out.

I also never ever knew that cats preferred water away from their food. I put mines next to food and always have done. I will put a bowl in the livingroom for him also. He seems to drink enough though and when I am in the toilet/bath he likes the water tap to be on so he can play with it and drink from it.

For a cat he has an unusual likening to water that no other cat of mine has had. When running a bath he tries to sit in it and doesn't move until it's half way up his legs - I now lock him out the bathroom when doing this as I am afraid he pees in it !!!!

Fridaycat

Desperado99 wrote: »

As FridayCat says you can do it as home, but we tend to go to the vet.

Ours is an older cat, so he doesn't wear his claws down as much as he needs to, which is why we have them trimmed.

I do three of my five cats' claws. The two Bengals because they are show cats and you need to trim them before each show (at least you do if you don't want them scratching the judge and losing any chance of a placing :rotfl:), but I do them even more frequently than that - every two weeks or so as they grow very quickly, despite having access to a ceiling-high cat tree which they do use to scratch and climb on and sleep on several times a day .

I also do Friday cat's claws as she is getting on now, and doesn't keep them trim herself, other than on the sofa :eek:

So, I do them myself otherwise I would be at the vet every other week!

I use these trimmers: (though mine are just plain black):



Before doing them at all, though, I asked the breeder of the Bengals (who is also a vet) to show me how to do them.

I don't trim Harry's or Robbie's claws as these two regularly go outside and are up and down trees and fences and also need to defend themselves from other cats in the area.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Lovely. Cat bogies. Eye bogies and nose bogies. Wonderful.


I have to clean them off the mob. One gets her nose so caked up with snot and fur and food that it sometimes gets completely blocked hard (like human 'crusties' _pale_). Removed with thumb nail, rub the sinus gently and you sometimes get the nose running for a few minutes, a couple of sneezes and they're fine.


It's the feline equivalent of blue bellybutton fluff. Black cat bogies instead.


We have porcelain crockery (charity shop, they're not that posh) and metal bowls. Varying slopes, varying depths, no difference made to bogey accumulations.



And I nip the tips off their claws with toenail clippers when they start clickclacking across the floor like they're wearing high heels.