Nutrition

About the nutrition of cats there are different opinions. Everyone has to decide for himself what the best is for his pets. We give our cats every day of the week dry food (grains) and 3 times a week tin food or boiled chicken, fish,... etc.
We use a well-known brand of grain food because we are convinced that this brand has a well equilibrated food value. Until now we have never had problems with it and our cats are in top form. Especially in the summer the grain has more advantages then tin food, because by warm weather the tin food goes very quickly bad. We don't leave tin food standing for more then an half hour, after that we take it away. They can eat day and night of their grains. They mostly get some sweets during the day as well. These are for sale in the stores in the shape of hearts, fishes, etc. They have a certain value of vitamins and they find these very tasty. Still the prescription amount is not crossed. The drinking-water is refreshed mornings and evenings, but you should do it more with high temperatures.

We gave them a closed litter tray with a swing door. Possible smells are staying in the cat loo (litter tray). But since we have changed of cat litter, all these discomforts (inconveniences) are practically gone. The brand that we use now absorbs all fluid and shapes a clot. Besides that, when the filling is getting wet, there is a kind of perfume setting free. On condition that everything is staying clean, you have to clean out the tray every day. For that there is a special shovel for sale in the stores that works like a sieve. Like this only the clots are removed and the rest can be kept, and in this way there is no waste of the cat litter. The cat-box is disinfected regularly with detol.

The coat

A Sacred Birman is washed one day before the show, on the other hand the Maine Coon is only washed a few days before the show when it is necessary.
A Maine Coon must show her natural fat gloss during the showing (presentation). A healthy cat maintains her coat more than once a day. Both breeds are semi longhaired cats and are easy to comb, they don't tangle. Once a week a good combing is enough.

The nails

These are trimmed on time because our cats still can't walk outside on asphalt or concrete. Through that the nails can not wear off, but by this summer there is coming an outside-run with a reasonable coarse floor (concrete clinker). With that they can file their nails themselves. We use special nail-scissors. Only the points are trimmed.

The eyes

Check the eyes to make sure that they don't weap. If this is the case, contact your vet. There can be a lot of causes,that why it's better you don't play vet for yourself.