{"id":3972,"date":"2022-11-16T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T09:38:54","slug":"caring-for-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/11\/16\/caring-for-a-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for a Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Maria Ceriani Jasa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When people first adopt a cat, a lot of them don\u2019t know some basic things about how to take care of their animal. This infographic shows the three main categories of basic cat knowledge: Grooming and hygiene, health benefits and having fun, and owning a cat with other pets. For the first category, the pet owner must learn that their cat\u2019s nails must be cut when they become long so they animal doesn\u2019t hurt themselves when scratching. They must brush its hair daily to avoid hairballs and bathe them once a year or when they are dirty to avoid illnesses. The animal must eat a well-balanced healthy diet along with drinking fresh water daily. Lastly, cats have what is called a litter box for them to do their business inside the home, this must be cleaned out daily, so it doesn\u2019t smell. The second category is about the health benefits cats bring humans and how to have fun with them. Cats help humans reduce anxiety and improve their immune system. To spend more time with their cat, they can play with them with cat toys, and watch them scratch their nails at the scratching post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"859\" src=\"https:\/\/mcmhub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221116-caring-for-a-cat-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221116-caring-for-a-cat-02.jpg 598w, https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221116-caring-for-a-cat-02-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221116-caring-for-a-cat-02-292x420.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Ceriani Jasa When people first adopt a cat, a lot of them don\u2019t know some basic things about how to take care of their animal. This infographic shows the three main categories of basic cat knowledge: Grooming and hygiene, health benefits and having fun, and owning a cat with other pets. For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[67,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-3972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-infographics","8":"tag-infographics","9":"tag-lifestyle-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}