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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The cat-shaped thing that lives under my bed . . .

[adderyn.livejournal.com]

(aka:"Sushi")
Whom I inherited from my mom had two of them the other day.
(And a third one that was down by the toe, but hadn't gone in yet.)
In my defense, she's very skittish and doesn't hang around out in the open where I can check her very often.
She also doesn't seem to scratch on things much, or groom herself much at all from what I can tell.
For my tools, I use a set of toe-nail clippers that were made for use by humans. I've found they are faster to use on her than the little scissors types, and as such I can get more nails clipped before I have to do the "chase, tackle, and pin down" method.

Re: The cat-shaped thing that lives under my bed . . .

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I use human clippers too. They're just as accurate and quick to use, and they're a lot cheaper. :-)

I'm glad Duchess grooms herself pretty well, but like Sushi she really doesn't take care of her toesies!