There is danger. If a cat does not defecate for a week, it is a very serious case of constipation, which needs to be dealt with immediately. Otherwise, the cat may suffer from colon disease, which may even be life-threatening. Moreover, when a cat is constipated, it will lead to loss of appetite and weight loss. When your cat first becomes constipated, you should take steps to help it defecate.

Adjust your diet

In fact, cats’ constipation may be related to their daily diet. For example, always feeding dry and hard food to cats, and not paying attention to whether the cat drinks water or not, will naturally slow down the cat’s digestion. , it is also prone to problems such as being unable to pull the cat out, so the owner can first adjust the cat's daily diet appropriately and replace it with softer and glutinous vegetable porridge, meat porridge and other foods, and can also prepare more warm water for the cat to drink.

　Supplementing probiotics

Some appropriate measures can be taken for cats, such as supplementing them with some beneficial bacteria, etc. You can feed them some old yogurt, honey water, etc. every day, or you can mix pet-specific probiotics into their daily food. Cats eat.

Appropriate massage and exercise

You can gently massage the cat’s belly clockwise or counterclockwise, or you can let the cat exercise more to help the cat’s gastrointestinal motility maintain proper peristalsis. After all, an overweight body will also affect the body’s gastrointestinal motility.

Solve the problem of hairballs in time

Hairball syndrome can also cause constipation in cats. If the cat licks too many hair balls, they accumulate in the intestines and form hair balls that block the intestines, which can lead to constipation. In this regard, the owner can give the cat some cat grass or hair removal cream to help the cat spit out hair and relieve constipation.