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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a skittish scratchy cat and found a great video showing how to clip nails of a aggressive cat, it involved wrapping their bodies, head exposed, in a small rug, and exposing one paw at a time for trimming.  Quite a racket of meOWing but I tried it and it works great!  At first I had to pretty much lay over her to keep her immobilized, and I spend half the time petting her and the other half clipping, followed by a treat.  After doing this twice weekly for a few months, she has stopped writhing and trying to escape, and she seems almost to enjoy it.  I use a towel, tightly wound, rather than a rug.[/quote]

This is my method too. I wrap her in a blanket with her head exposed and take one paw out at a time. I do this about once a month. SHE ABSOLUTELY HATES IT. She growls and meows but for some reasons doesn’t try to bite me. I don’t think she’ll ever get used to it but it’s one of those things I just have to do. If she’s exceptionally pissy, I skip her back claws til next time. [/quote]

Me again. I actually never clipped her claws for the first year I had her. She did a TON of scratching on her cardboard scratcher and her claws never seemed to bother her. But she loves to play, which includes using her claws, so it’s better if they’re trimmed. 
Dumb question but can you get away with just not clipping a cats nails? I would never neglect to do so if it was a health / physical concern but I’ve never really asked that. [/quote]

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