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.

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I feel bad 'cause she HAD a set regimen for clippings and I just let it slide. What with the trip to Boston and the job search upheaval I just had other stuff on my mind. But Duchess doesn't scratch much, so she's more "at risk" for this sort of thing. She has even had an ingrown claw before.

This one was way deep. Poor girl. Blood and all... and such a BIG piece to pull out. She's walking without a trace of a limp, which amazes me.

Now I know I can't let this slide!