Don’t bathe your cat without blow-drying it in the summer. Cats' hair is extremely thick, and it is almost impossible to let the cat dry naturally after taking a bath. Even if the surface hair is dry, the underlying coat is difficult to dry. Moreover, the evaporation of water from the hair will take away a lot of heat from the cat's body, and the cat will easily catch a cold. If the hair is not combed out, it will easily become tangled, eventually leading to alopecia areata. In severe cases, the cat may suffer from dermatitis or skin diseases.

Precautions for bathing cats

1. When bathing a cat, you must use a cat-specific hypoallergenic bath liquid. Do not use human bath liquid. Prolonged use of human bath soap will destroy the cat's skin barrier and reduce the cat's skin resistance.

2. Try not to bathe a cat that has not completed its vaccination. The cat's resistance at this time is very weak. Once bathing causes the cat's stress response or causes the cat to catch a cold, then they are likely to be infected by the virus.

3. When bathing a cat, be careful not to get the bath liquid and water into the cat’s eyes and ears. The bath solution will irritate the cat’s conjunctiva and cause eye inflammation. If water gets into a cat’s ears, it will be difficult to get it out, and it can easily lead to infection.