¿Por qué NO debes bañar a tu gato? ¿Puede enfermar? 🙀

Carlo, come on, you have to shower.

No, I don't shower.

Well, here you go. Oh my gosh, what you have to do for the fans. Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Cats are very special animals. Well, I'm sure if you live with one, you already know this. When you come to the office with a tiny, tiny, adorable kitten with a cotton ball, you have questions all over the place. And that's normal, because no one knows what kind of care your feline companion needs, which is a lot, especially if it's the first time you've lived with a cat. The thing is that during that first appointment, there's always the typical person who asks me, hey, can I walk the cat? At that point, my response is, usually, get out of the office. What I mean is no. My response is usually very assertive, man. Keep in mind that a cat is not a dog that gets scared very easily and that walking can be somewhat stressful for him. And we should not apply what works with a dog to a cat. Today we are going to deal with another of those tricky topics that at first glance seems to have a very obvious answer. But judging by the number of times you ask me about it, it seems that it is not so much. Can I bathe my cat? How often should he bathe? And that is why I am making this video, as always, Carlos to the rescue. Well, come on, put up today's poster. Oh, how beautiful it looks, girl. Beautiful. The best I have seen you do. This type of doubt about feline hygiene and whether cats should be bathed is one of the typical questions that always comes up in the first consultation with a young kitten. And attention. Spoiler alert. In this video, I am going to give you my opinion, although if you are a bit observant, you will have already read in the title of the video what I think. Broadly speaking, I am against bathing cats. And I'll repeat in broad strokes, although now I'll explain and discuss why humans are completely obsessed with hygiene and that makes us want to wash everything around us. No matter how much I think about it, I can't find a single logical explanation for why you should bathe your cat. Because if you know them, you'll know first, that they are extremely clean animals, that they wash themselves very frequently, and that they don't usually get dirty easily, and second, that they are animals that don't usually go outside. Therefore, they don't come into contact with the dirt that may be in a park or under a car. So think about it. If they wash themselves, don't usually go outside, and don't usually get dirty. Why are you going to waste time trying to bathe your cat? And this doesn't mean that you should completely ignore your cat's hygiene. You should keep an eye on the outside of their body to make sure that everything is fine, as you would with any pet. As I've explained to you a few times, cleaning your cat's ears regularly, as we've shown you to do in the canal, or brushing their hair from time to time, is very beneficial and something you should do, especially if your cat has long hair. But this has nothing to do with bathing them. And let's see, water is not bad for your feline companion. If you pour it on them, they won't multiply into evil clones like a Grenli. But I'm sure you know that cats have a secret, an open secret. Do you know that your cat hates water? And not just your cat. Most cats hate taking a dip, being put in a pool or in your bathtub. Every time you try to bathe your cat, it's certain that both they and you are going to have a very frustrating time. You feel like the executioner who is going to execute his victim. And you have to find tricks and ways to take the cat to the bathroom, close the door and start fighting with it as if you were a circus tamer. And it attacks. And in the end, you are going to put all your effort into finishing quickly and badly. And it is possible that you will end up wetter than your cat and your cat will be trying to escape from you all the time. And you will become its number one enemy at that moment. And it may become aggressive towards you and even attack you because you are causing it a lot of stress. And you know that stress is very bad for cats because it can cause them diseases. In short, unless you are going to march, this is a nightmare for both of you. And I can't think of a single reason why you should bathe your cat. So why do you need to go through this ordeal? None. I'm telling you so. No, don't do it. Okay, so you've bathed your cat and saved your hands with dignity. But now comes the worst moment of all. Drying time. With all your best intentions, you're going to try to keep your cat from catching a cold, and you're going to try to dry it with the hair dryer. You approach it with a gun that makes a lot of noise. Knowing how sensitive cats are to noises, and on top of that, you're spewing hot air through your mouth that your cat doesn't like at all. The hairdryer can become the final straw in the torture your cat is undergoing. To him, it's like a dragon spitting fire from its mouth. In short, a nightmare that never ends. Everything I'm telling you has the perfect ingredients to turn into a tragedy and end up making your cat distrust you. So why do we insist on continuing to bathe our cats if we all know that they hate water? It seems ridiculous. Why do we insist on continuing to traumatize and stress them, knowing what stress can do to their health? Well, the answer, even if it seems unrelated to this topic, is always the same. Out of pure selfishness. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello. Dig. Run home. He step on my phone. Look, humans tend to want to humanize everything around us. You don't bathe your cat because your cat really needs it, but because you perceive it as a necessity. It's very simple. Since you shower every day, you try to convey to your cat that need for daily hygiene from the shower, and your cat doesn't need it. It's the same thing we've already mentioned in another video. Most of the aesthetic perceptions of pets have to do with ourselves, since we want our cat to match us with our lifestyle as if it were an accessory, instead of thinking about its needs. Although cats, especially short haired ones, do not need to be bathed, there are some, such as long haired ones, that do need grooming sessions in which they are bathed and brushed thoroughly to remove knots and improve the health of their skin. However, this is a specific case for this type of breed and cannot be extrapolated to all cats in general, because, unlike the other ones, we do this with their dermatological health in mind. Although they do not enjoy water either, we are pursuing the greater good of their health. Finally, when you bathe your cat and apply perfumes or shampoos to their fur, you have to keep in mind that these types of animals lick and groom themselves very frequently so they can ingest the remains of these substances that remain on their skin. And this can end up being harmful to their health. Furthermore, your cat does not want to smell like roses. That is a need that you have. Your cat washes itself with its tongue and wants to smell what cats smell like, their natural perfume. I think I've already given you enough compelling reasons to reconsider bathing your cat. Look, I understand that I've gotten a bit carried away and that I've been a bit picky. About this whole bathing thing. But it could also be that you are bathing your cat simply out of ignorance because you thought that this was a physiological necessity for him, and what you were doing was simply applying a human need to your pet. I wanted to make this video precisely so that you both can get rid of the heavy burden of bathing and that you can take advantage of those moments with games, caresses, and rainbows of color for you. He's coming this way again. What's happening? He's already turned around. You've already turned around. Come on, run. Come on, run. Yaboo. I'm sure that right now someone is saying to me, well, my cat loves water. Well, the truth is that I'm not going to argue with you because you know your feline companion better than anyone and each cat is different. I also know that there are cats that have been used to being bathed since they were little and don't have the problems I just mentioned. But it's one thing for them to tolerate water and another for them to need it physiologically. But I'm not going to be the one to tell you whether or not you should do it. If both you and your cat enjoy this time as a fun activity together, then go ahead. Although I still don't see the point and don't recommend it. Although, as I've said, water is not harmful to your cat, but the chemical products used in the bathroom, such as perfumes and soaps, can be. Therefore, you have to make sure to read the label carefully, use them with caution, and above all, if you're going to bathe your cat, use ones that are specifically for your cat. Don't give your cat Johnson's baby. Well, as a matter of curiosity and to change the subject a bit, because you know that I am like that, I love telling you one thing. And its opposite, I can tell you that although most cats hate water, there are some breeds in particular that do not. This is about Bee's cat breed, which is a cat originally from an area between Turkey and Armenia, well, around there. The fact is that this breed comes from the shores of Lake Van and loves to take a dip in its waters. It has learned it, it has it in its genes, and it loves water. For all these reasons in the consultation, I will continue to recommend that cats not bathe and I will do so convinced that it is the best thing for their health. Because as I have already told you, and you will get tired of hearing me say on the channel, stress is one of the main causes of illness in cats. So I advocate avoiding it in any situation, even if this means that in the end we bring fewer cats to the clinic's grooming salon so that you realize that vets are not motivated by money, but by animal welfare. Here's what I owed you.

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