Choose a small environment to avoid thermal oscillations

When bathing, avoid being subjected to thermal changes or to cool down. Therefore, it is advisable to choose a small room, such as the bathroom, because it is one of the hottest spots in the home, harvested, with low heat dispersion. You also choose a moment of calm and patience when you have at least an hour and a half to devote, otherwise you risk not doing the job well and shaking it. The acceptance of the bath by the rabbit depends a lot on the individual character: if you do not like it, do not insist on not loading the dose of stress.

Use neutral shampoo

Use a mild, neutral shampoo for children that do not produce too much foam or a specific dermatologically tested product in cats. You can use the sink as a sink or place a sink on the bottom of the bathtub. Put an old towel on the bottom so that the rabbit grabs your feet and does not slip. Put a little hot water in the container, taking care that the rabbit is only immersed with the legs, about 3 cm; avoid introducing water to your nose and ears.

Important recommendations for a perfect water bath

• It is essential to know some things that will allow us to make the bath in the water the least annoying.

• It is better to be helped by another person to keep the rabbit in the ideal position while we are going to wash it.

• The ideal position to keep the rabbit is vertical, with the back resting in the water tank or holding a hand.

• Never hold the rabbit with the ground parallel to the ground, as this position could cause excessive stress, although the appearance seems relaxed.

• Do not submerge the rabbit completely in the water! This could cause stress or even hypothermia. It is best to treat the individual area or, at the most, only submerge the back in no more than 6 cm of water.

• We talk to our rabbit in a quiet voice while we wash to calm him down.

• After washing, dry it quickly and gently with a towel or, if necessary, with a minimum temperature and no more than the same area (we could risk burning and irritating the skin).

• We do everything quickly to minimize stress.

• Reimburse the final cleaning for a positive mental association and get used to the procedure.

What are ticks? These are spider-like parasites that can vary from the size of a grain of sand to that of an aspirin. How is this?

You will have seen some small tick, right? They are reddish brown and flat ... once they catch on the skin of your pet and suck the blood, they inflate so much that they take a silver color and can be seen at a distance.

In a pet you can find up to tens of ticks, which creates great suffering and the possibility of contracting diseases such as Ehrilichiosis that can cause liver, lymphatic and even neurological damage.

And how can your pet fill up with ticks if you have a clean house? As easy as taking your pet for a walk or going out for a walk (like the cat would be).

Birds also carry ticks that they release when they visit your garden. Without a doubt, a good cleaning of the area where your pet is is recommended, but the ticks are very resistant. They can put up to more than 4,000 eggs on the skin of your pet, multiplying without control.

What to do? When the hot months begin, the hibernation of the ticks ends and they begin to reproduce.

Therefore, it is important that at least once a week and when you bathe your pet you check their skin for any tick that may be attached to the ears or in the middle of the toes of their legs.

If you get to find a tick on the skin of your pet, you must remove it using tweezers and then wash the wound on the skin with hydrogen peroxide (the tick takes a piece of skin with it.

What are you doing with the tick? There are medicines to kill the tick but as you will not always have them at hand, you can do the following: do not burn it or let it go on the floor or in the garbage can, do not burst it because the blood inside is contaminated, wrap it in a paper or newspaper so that it does not escape and thus wrapped the strips in the outside trash can.

There are powder talcum powder to repel ticks, you can spray a little in the area where the tick is to release; The drawback here is that the tick breaks loose but escapes. This powder is recommended as a preventive measure to repel parasites.

Now, you will have to check the area where your pet lives, which is probably where the parasite came from. Wash the area thoroughly with chlorine and make sure it is disinfected.

Keep in mind that it is inevitable that ticks invade your yard or your pet as they invariably appear in hot weather and are looking for a victim to satisfy their hunger.

You should also pay special attention because ticks can not only adhere to the skin of a dog or cat, but also to the skin of humans. Therefore, make war on the parasites for the sake of your pet and your family.