Cat staple trimming problem?
ok so everytime i trim my cats nails she gets scared and scratch me all the time! i cannot stand it. i dont want someone else to do it because i want her to get used to me doing it and i have the trimming scissors and it works great but she get too scaredd! what should i do??
Have someone else hold her while you do it. Generally speaking if you don't necessitate to trim a cat's claws. I got a kitten that had it's nails trimmed so she didn't know to "sharpen" them on the cat scratcher. So I have to trim them a couple of times but after a while she was using the scratching post regularly and I didn't need to.
You just have to learn to be as early as possible and know that she may never adjust to having her claws clipped. I had a cat that fought me at nail clipping time consistently for the entire 18 years he lived. It help to have someone else hold them while you're clipping. It's also easier if you stand them up on a counter or table so you can be standing while clipping them.
have you tried putting the cat contained by the microwave? my moms cat had the same problem and it fixed it right up. good 10 minuets aught to do it.
that's because it hurts them really discouraging. have you ever had your hand shut within a car door? well that's how it feels to them. Get a filer that help more and some cats cannot stand that you are holding them down agaist their will so he could be doing it for that reason as well.
Answers: Wait until she falls asleep!
Then pet her and then start clipping.
Don't cut past the quick, that's the pink bit of the nail.
I always clip my cats claws while they're asleep and they rarely struggle.
Hope this help!
Don't trim them? That road she can protect herself and run and climb like a cat should. If she's scratching the furniture there are other ways to stop it - approaching a squirt bottle.
