And I thought I'd had a bad week or two

[cjsmith]

Lately I've been noticing Duchess, the largest of my cats, clicking when she walked. Time to clip her claws. She doesn't love it, but she permits it. I started in on her a half hour ago.

I was way, way too late.

Ever seen an ingrown claw? A badly ingrown claw? On a forepaw, which the cat uses to dig in the sandbox?

I just doctored one.

She is the sweetest, most patient cat in the universe. I am not speedy with this type of thing. I am positive that it hurt, probably badly, at more than one stage in the "treatment". But she didn't do more than twitch and make a little vocal complaint.

Poor Duchess! She's been walking on that thing for ages like this. And she just had it pulled out, by an amateur, with (forgive me here, folks, it's the best thing I had for the job at hand) a pair of pliers. I can only imagine how much it's been hurting. I am such a bad kittymom, letting it go that long :-( :-(. At least it's out now.

Comments

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

My brother-in-law is a vet and his cats are declawed. I don't think he would do something that was detrimental to the cat so PTTHHHBT on the people who say mean things. Plus, you cat (who is very cute btw) probably batted the sense out of those mice and then just chomped on them, so no claws needed. My cat doesn't use her front claws for anything killing wise. Sadly she has NO TOLERANCE to me touching her feet so clipping claws is no fun for me. I tend to bleed after, but I will check for ingrown claws now. Each and every time she professes her love by kneading into me I will look and see if all of the implements of scratchy doom are fine.

*MEOW FFFFT FFFFT*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*grin* Yeah, some of 'em tolerate claw-clipping just fine and some really fight, don't they? Jackie is a freakin' terror, but Duchess and Little Girl are both very calm about it. Thank goodness. Two out of three isn't bad.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

when maxling was a kitten i started touching his paws all the time to get him used to it. so claw clipping time is a breeze with him now. i am *SO* glad i did that!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, well done! There are advantages to having a cat from kittenhood! :-)