Sometimes I can sneakily snip 2 or 3 of my cat’s daggers while she’s sleeping before she wakes up and refuses any more. It’s dangerous and scary. There is no other way.
I have a dog (supposed to be) and my hands look like this as well.
I don’t think so. She looks a dog, barks like a dog but scratches my arms like a cat. Joking aside it’s my fault I like roughhousing with her and she gets carried away.
I got bitten on my head when rough-housing with the dog. She lunged like a wound-up bonehead, I ducked, my head bled from a chippy tooth she has. When I lose my hair I’m gonna have to explain the scar and get teased all over again.
(Doggy’s fine. We comforted her after the ensuing confusion and she still seems to think I’m awesome despite scaring her so.)
just tryna scratch that bug bite for ya
Trimming cat nails is animal cruelty
I think you’re thinking of declawing.
Trimming nails is good for the cat because otherwise the nail grows so long that it loops around and stabs into their hand. In the wild this is fixed by them breaking off as they do normal activities but they don’t do that nearly as much in a domestic situation.
Declawing though, is cruel
They couldn’t loop around really. And you can only trim the very end of a cat’s nail without injuring it. If it’s purely a indoor cat just give it a few ways to scratch their nails and everything is fine without ever needing to trim the nails.
Weird how that’s never been the case for many of my family in the 40 years I’ve known us to keep cats.
My sister runs a vet hospital. Last time I checked the prevailing wisdom was “yeah of course you’ll have to trim them because there’s nothing inside that’ll provide the same wearing action and keep them short otherwise” but I can ask again if need be.
Where’d you hear such crazy ideas?
