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Maintaining Healthy Skin in Your Senior Cat

By: Author Paris Permenter

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Yesterday in our series of tips on senior cats, Wendy Diamond looked at sharpening your cat’s mind. Today Wendy examines another important part of senior pet care: maintaining a healthy skin and coat:

As any organism ages, the functions of life begin to slow down, which is why you need to stimulate your cat’s skin to keep them feeling like a kitten and to release their natural oils.

These oils promote healthy skin and fur and are essential to your cats comfort. These natural oils benefit skin elasticity, which is a quality of youthful skin that depletes with age.

By keeping your cat’s skin youthful you build their protection against the cuts and scratches that can plague dry, brittle skin. The Cat Spa and Cat-Comb products are two excellent ways to encourage your cat to get the natural oils flowing on their own.

Tomorrow: You Are What You Eat
The Senior Cat Series:

  1. Assessing Your Cat’s Age
  2. Sharpening Your Senior Cat’s Mind
  3. Maintaining Healthy Skin in Your Senior Cat
  4. Senior Cats: You Are What You Eat
  5. Visiting Your Vet With Your Senior Cat
  6. Increasing Agility in Senior Cats
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