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Good grooming practices are essential for maintaining health and happiness for you and your cat. This is a forum to exchange tips and advice for proper care of your cat's hygiene needs.

  
Miles

Eat first, taste- later		 
 
Purred: Sat Jun 16, '07 11:38am PST 
I've got dry, cracked paws (or as my mommy would say crusty, rusty paws). When my sister and brother get dry paws, usually in the winter, mommy puts mineral oil on their paws and all is better. But I don't like anyone messing with my paws. I won't even let mommy or daddy cut my nails. I bite them off myself thank you very much. I should mention that I'm part feral and I bite hard when anyone messes with the paws. Mommy and daddy have to sneak up on me while I sleep.

When mommy comes near me with the mineral oil, I run and hide. I can smell the mineral oil miles away. I hate that stuff. Anyone know of another product I can use. Maybe I can tolerate something else.
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Hunter

Lazy, Lazy, Lazy		 
 
Purred: Sat Jun 16, '07 7:33pm PST 
Avon's Skin So Soft is safe for use on cats.
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Toby

Taking it one- crash at a- time...		 
 
Purred: Sun Jun 17, '07 9:29am PST 
Kitties ususally get dry skin and dry paws because they lack natural oils in their diet. I bet you don't feed them wet food, or just not enough. Try starting your kitty on a quarter can of wet food every day. Or you can also put a tiny bit of vegetable oil over the dry food if the kitty doesn't like the wet stuff. If you can't get the kitty to eat either of these, there's always Omega3 pills from the vet. Omega3 is made of fish oils, so it's natural and perfect for the dry skin. You should also know that the winter is the worst time of the year when it comes to getting dry skin. So with the warm weather it should make it a faster healing process now! kitty

Edited by author Sun Jun 17, '07 9:32am PST

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