Very often it happens that animals stop eating due to extreme hot weather during summer.
Some Indian dogs and cats have taken full control of my house and I get a chance to observe them at very close range.
Dogs are comfortable with one full meal once a day and one or two roti or biscuit in the evening.
Cats on the other hand are voracious eaters . I have never been fond of cats and have never particularly adopted one . But animals tend to understand safety and security much better. There are two female cats in my locality. They come and sit on the kitchen window few times each day and we all have got accustomed to offering some rice along with fish or milk whenever possible . They are interested in only fooding and not lodging except in very cold weather. We have been observing that over the last few years these cats bring in kittens and keep them in our house. Comfortably they stay under the bed, on the rack or under the table. This despite the fact that we also have two dogs staying in. Once brought in it becomes our duty to protect the kittens and let the mother nurse them properly. Once these grow up , the mother would take them outside into the garden and play with them , teach them to hunt , feed them some hunted foods sometimes and teach them to climb trees and boundary walls. This normally takes three to four months . Soon the cat would desert them . By now these smaller kittens have got accustomed to staying inside the house and have chosen their place of sleeping at night and have learnt to avoid the dogs especially during time of feeding. The mother would once again switch over to the only fooding policy and stay hostile to the kittens . These smaller ones having been accustomed to our house since young prefer to stay with us. This way we have got a good collection of eight cats over the years. We have learnt to accept the kittens over the years and have become more of a amusement than anger.
Getting back to our topic. While dogs can go without food for a few days without much harm it is not so with the cats as their body tend to metabolize food very fast and they need food very often. While a bath or wet sponge is alright for dogs , cats do not like it and it tend to do more harm to their skin.
If a cat stops eating for a day or too , it is time to take action because they become weak very soon. Taking the cat to a vet is not always easy and with all respect vets tend to overlook diseases in cats or dogs and are more busy with bigger animals. I have learnt it the hard way on previous occasions. I normally use homeopathy medicines and a homeopath doctor, my friend, helps me a lot . Last time when one of the cats stopped eating due to hot weather he suggested me NUX VOM 30 . If that failed he told me to use ARSENIC 30. It worked. Since then I have been using nux vom in such conditions.
Both medicines are available in homeopathy medicine shops. Get 5/10 ml of Nux vom 30 or Arsenic 30. In quarter cup water add one or two drops . Such shops would also give you a plastic dropper , if not ask for one. Feed the animal one dropper of the solution. If required another dose may be given after about 8-12 hours. Discard the solution. The medicine itself keeps well for about a year and costs 20-30 rupees in most places.
Arsenic 30 is also useful in stomach infections in cats or dogs. Dogs that lose hair also respond well to Arsenic 30 given once a day for three four days .
Some Indian dogs and cats have taken full control of my house and I get a chance to observe them at very close range.
Dogs are comfortable with one full meal once a day and one or two roti or biscuit in the evening.
Cats on the other hand are voracious eaters . I have never been fond of cats and have never particularly adopted one . But animals tend to understand safety and security much better. There are two female cats in my locality. They come and sit on the kitchen window few times each day and we all have got accustomed to offering some rice along with fish or milk whenever possible . They are interested in only fooding and not lodging except in very cold weather. We have been observing that over the last few years these cats bring in kittens and keep them in our house. Comfortably they stay under the bed, on the rack or under the table. This despite the fact that we also have two dogs staying in. Once brought in it becomes our duty to protect the kittens and let the mother nurse them properly. Once these grow up , the mother would take them outside into the garden and play with them , teach them to hunt , feed them some hunted foods sometimes and teach them to climb trees and boundary walls. This normally takes three to four months . Soon the cat would desert them . By now these smaller kittens have got accustomed to staying inside the house and have chosen their place of sleeping at night and have learnt to avoid the dogs especially during time of feeding. The mother would once again switch over to the only fooding policy and stay hostile to the kittens . These smaller ones having been accustomed to our house since young prefer to stay with us. This way we have got a good collection of eight cats over the years. We have learnt to accept the kittens over the years and have become more of a amusement than anger.
Getting back to our topic. While dogs can go without food for a few days without much harm it is not so with the cats as their body tend to metabolize food very fast and they need food very often. While a bath or wet sponge is alright for dogs , cats do not like it and it tend to do more harm to their skin.
If a cat stops eating for a day or too , it is time to take action because they become weak very soon. Taking the cat to a vet is not always easy and with all respect vets tend to overlook diseases in cats or dogs and are more busy with bigger animals. I have learnt it the hard way on previous occasions. I normally use homeopathy medicines and a homeopath doctor, my friend, helps me a lot . Last time when one of the cats stopped eating due to hot weather he suggested me NUX VOM 30 . If that failed he told me to use ARSENIC 30. It worked. Since then I have been using nux vom in such conditions.
Both medicines are available in homeopathy medicine shops. Get 5/10 ml of Nux vom 30 or Arsenic 30. In quarter cup water add one or two drops . Such shops would also give you a plastic dropper , if not ask for one. Feed the animal one dropper of the solution. If required another dose may be given after about 8-12 hours. Discard the solution. The medicine itself keeps well for about a year and costs 20-30 rupees in most places.
Arsenic 30 is also useful in stomach infections in cats or dogs. Dogs that lose hair also respond well to Arsenic 30 given once a day for three four days .
