Chapter 1641 Summer Anorexia

The area of ​​the pet store is not very large, and most of the space has been effectively used to place display cabinets and leave enough space for the kittens to move around. Now there are three more adults who are not consumers in the store, and three are not consumers. For an adult who stopped emitting heat, the thought of the rapidly turning electric meter made Zhang Zian very irritable.

"What else do you have?"

So he took the initiative to ask Zhao Qi, and the ambiguity was nothing more than that if you have nothing to do, go and do your work, don't stay in the store to cool off.

Zhao Qi glared at him, "You're too snobbish, isn't it just because you didn't buy anything from you? Here's an order to evict you."

"How is it possible that I treat consumers equally." Zhang Zian said awe-inspiringly.

"But we are not consumers if we don't consume, right?" She rolled her eyes, "Forget it, anyway, I don't want to stay longer in the hot weather, so I just want to ask, my Lanlan's condition seems to be a little bit wrong recently, Give me an idea, do you want to take it to the hospital to see if this is considered after-sales service?"

"Oh what's wrong," he asked, "you have to make it clear before I can offer advice."

According to Zhao Qi, Lan Lan was a bit overweight from her feeding, and Ying Short had a round head and round brain. When she realized it, Lan Lan had already exceeded the standard weight by a lot. She knew from Zhang Zian that being too fat for a cat is just as bad as being too fat for a human, but losing weight is more troublesome for cats than for humans, and it is impossible to lose weight by exercising, especially for cats like Yingshao who are quiet and not active species, so we can only rely on eating less.

Losing too much food all of a sudden can easily cause the cat's stress response and develop fatty liver, so she is also quite entangled in how to help Lan Lan lose weight slowly.

However, through observation recently, she found that Lan Lan's food intake seemed to have decreased, and there was often some left over of the cat food she usually ate. Did she also know that she should lose weight?

Lan Lan's weight did begin to decrease, and the speed was relatively gentle. Zhao Qi was quite happy. She reduced her food intake, which meant that she was full. This was different from being forced to reduce food intake, and would not cause a stress response.

It was a good thing that the food intake problem was solved, but she also found that Lan Lan's drinking water had also decreased, which was not a good thing. She asked Zhang Zian on WeChat, but because he had no signal in the redwood forest, and when he got a signal, he received hundreds of text messages, WeChat messages and emails at once. He could only pick up important replies, so he sent Inquiries from her and other customers regarding pets were ignored.

"Lan Lan used to drink 300 to 400 milliliters of water a day, but now she only drinks 200 to 300 milliliters. Is this normal?" she asked.

"It's not normal. The hotter the weather, the more water you drink. The standard is 50 milliliters of water per kilogram of body weight per day. You can calculate whether you have reached the standard. I think your Lan Lan seems to be anorexic in summer, and she is not very energetic. Well, what's the temperature in your house?" he asked.

"Uh, it should be about 28 degrees." Zhao Qi is not sure, "But my house does not have a central air conditioner, so some rooms are inevitably hotter and some rooms are cooler. I can't catch cold, so I didn't adjust it too low, and I go to work during the day When you are not at home, the air conditioner is not turned on 24 hours a day, but the windows are open to ventilate, otherwise the electricity bill will be high.”

"It should be hot. It's no big deal. The most suitable temperature for cats in summer is 25 degrees, which is lower than that of humans. Because of their fur, kittens are active. I set the temperature here to 24 degrees." He pointed The LCD screen of the air conditioner cabinet.

"No wonder it feels chilly." Zhao Qi wore a lot of sun protection, and at first she didn't feel the difference between the temperature here and her home.

"Then should my house also be adjusted to 25 degrees?" Tian Yi had been listening to their conversation carefully, and hurriedly asked.

"No, the temperature in your house cannot be lower than 30 degrees. The kitten's body temperature regulation ability is very poor, and its fur is very short, so it cannot catch cold." Zhang Zian promptly dissuaded him.

"30 degrees" Xiao Wang's face is full of pain, men are more afraid of heat, and the air conditioner cannot be turned on at 30 degrees in summer, and it is uncomfortable to play games.

Zhang Zian asked a few more questions and learned a detail. When Zhao Qi was at home, if Lan Lan couldn't finish eating cat food,

She will quickly clean up the remaining cat food to prevent insects from being attracted in hot weather. Even if insects are not attracted, cat food is prone to moisture and deterioration when it is directly exposed to the air.

But this is actually the wrong approach. Cats were originally nocturnal animals, and they ate in the dark at night, but because they lived with humans, they barely adapted to human schedules. Cats do not have an accurate concept of time, and judge the time by the light and shade of the sun. In summer, when the sunshine time is longer and hot, their biological clocks are deviated. The reason they can’t finish eating cat food is not because they are full, but because they think it is not time to eat. time, or the time for eating has passed, so in summer, the feeding time should be adjusted appropriately, or the indoor shading should be strengthened. When people are not at home during the day, even if the air conditioner is not turned on, at least draw the curtains and turn on the fan, and prepare glass or tile countertops without sharp edges or sharp corners, so that cats can lie down on them to cool down when they are too hot.

As for drinking water, cats do not like to drink water is also a long-standing problem. At this time, catnip can only be used. Tear catnip into small pieces and sprinkle them in the water. A better way is to make catnip yogurt, lactic acid bacteria decompose the milk The lactose in it, even cats with lactose intolerance can drink it without any problem, it is nutritious and delicious, even people can drink it without problem, but they may not be able to bear the acidity.

"Wait a minute, my Lan Lan doesn't seem to like catnip." Zhao Qi frowned, "I tried teasing her with catnip, but she didn't respond, maybe she doesn't like the smell of catnip."

"This is also the case. Some cats just don't like catnip by nature, but it doesn't matter. You can try other cat grasses. Cat grass is not only catnip, but also wheatgrass, barley grass, alfalfa leaves, etc. Try more. There's always something a cat can't get enough of, not to be confused with wheat and barley leaves."

Xiao Wang and Tian Tian tried their best to digest the conversation between Zhang Zian and Zhao Qi, many of which were unfamiliar to them, two new cat owners.

Zhang Zian has taken care of their feelings when he was talking, and tried to make it easy to understand. They have to face unimaginable hardships in raising kittens. When the kittens grow up a little, because there is no teaching from the mother cat, they will Facing the dilemma of insufficient socialization, not knowing how to collect claws, not being good at co-existing peacefully with other cats, emotional ups and downs, etc., and maybe not even going to the toilet by yourself. These things need enough patience to teach, and even with patience, there may be little effect After all, a human is not a cat, and cannot replace its mother. I can only hope that this couple can persevere.

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