Let us talk about grooming your pet and why it is so important for their overall health. One of the responsibilities of becoming a pet owner is ensuring their coat is well maintained, no matter what season it is. Maintaining your pets coat can be done from the comfort of your own home with regular bathing and brushing, alternatively you can utilize one of the great bathing and/or grooming services provided at the Maraboon Vet (Cats) and the Maraboon Pet Resort (dogs).
Maintaining your pets coat is important in keeping them happy and healthy. An unmaintained coat can result in many negative health effects for your pet. If you own a long haired animal and they are prone to become matted. This can cause serious challenges for your pet such as reduced circulation to their skin, hot spots and bacterial infections, not to mention painful as the matts forms they begin to pull on the pets skin until they are removed. It’s also very important to keep your pets hair short near their eyes to ensure they aren’t visually restricted, this also prevents buildup of 'gunk' in the eyes. Keeping the coat around your pets private areas short and clean also reduces buildup of feaces and urine as well as reducing risk of infection in this area. Your pet’s nails also need to be maintained as untrimmed nails can cause irreversible damage to the structure of a pet’s feet if they grow too long. They can also get caught and ripped, causing pain and discomfort until the nail grows back. The nails can also curl over and grow slowly into the foot if they aren’t trimmed regularly. Keeping the overall body of pet well groomed will remove loose hair and skin cells as well as improving blood flow to the skin and aids in spreading natural oils through the coat , this is beneficial for short and long hair coats. It will also reduce the risk of being infected by fleas and ticks and any other nasties.
Maintaining your pets coat on a regular basis can be a big task and we understand sometimes it’s not able to be completed at home. Don’t stress as we are here to help. The Maraboon Pet Resort are able to assist you in maintaining your dogs’ coat and the Maraboon Vet Surgery can assist you in maintain your cats’ coat. Dogs attend the grooming salon at the Maraboon Pet Resort and can receive many different services pending on their needs. Our Certified Groomers offer a wide range of grooms and extras including full grooms, Custom grooms, demaults, bath and blow drys, nail trims, ear plucks and colouring for your dogs.
The Maraboon Vet Surgery offer high quality grooms for your cat, we are certified cat friendly clinic so we make your cats visit here as peaceful as possible. We do this by making them feel comfortable in a warm quiet kennel sprayed with Feliway, which is a synthetic pheromone which minimises stress in a new environment. For this service we also put the cats under a light sedation so they are not stressed during their groom. Once they are lightly sedated they are clipped, bathed and blow-dryed before waking them up and giving them lots of nurse cuddles.
Not only is it so important to keep your pet groomed for their overall health, they also look amazing after a visit to our grooming salons. If you have any questions about your pet or would like to book your pet into our grooming salon, please do not hesitate to contact the Maraboon Vet Surgery 07 4987 6800 for your cats and the Maraboon Pet resort 07 4987 7748 for your dog’s.