Miss Moppet is an indoor cat. Her claws are talons. I am afraid to try to clip them. At present I am even uncomfortable taking her to the vet to get them done.
The reason is that I have tried gently picking her up and she tenses up and wriggles out of my hands. Her body is powerful but she is so tiny I don’t want to wrestle with her. I would have to catch her up in a towel and stuff it into a carrier. I had to do that with former cats. Then an hour’s drive to the vet’s. Too much, too soon.
That leaves the nail clipping to me. I bought a clipper. I introduced it to her. She sniffed it. I tried stroking and holding a paw. No. She pulled her paw away. I brushed her with her little brush on the cat tree and kept the clippers right there. As she lay in ecstasy, one hind leg drooped over the edge, claws extended.
Perhaps she was being helpful in her own way. I clipped one claw, not holding it, while she lay. She did not flinch.
I clipped as little as possible, hopefully not too much. There are 15 more claws to trim, plus dew claws. I found the procedure unnerving. I wish I could get her outside where she could wear the claws down naturally by climbing on garden bed frames and clawing trees.
If I can’t progress with the nail clipping, I will need to get her into a carrier for trip to the vet. She must have had her claws trimmed before she came to me. Or she had some sort of super scratching post.
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