How To Cut Your Kittens Claws

Never cut a cat s nail close to or with flush with the toe.

How to cut your kittens claws. Check to see how much of a trim her nails need and notice where the quick begins. With your cat in your lap facing away from you take one of her toes in your hand massage and press the pad until the nail extends. Your kitten s claws are too sharp and you. We trim their claws because they re inside only cat.

Kittens are seemingly inexhaustible furry bundles of energy. Your aim is to clip off only. There are plenty of ultra close up view. Suddenly neither your furniture nor your skin is safe from the vicious scratching of the little tiger.

Trim your kitten s claws every few weeks or take your kitten to a vet to do it. The quick is the living part of the nail and contains blood vessels and nerves so cutting a cat s nail to the quick is quite painful for the cat. If you ve recently gotten a new kitten it might have surprised you how such a soft and fluffy creature can have such murderous claws. Running at warp speed through your home chasing after every real or imaginary stimulus and pouncing on anything they see.

I ve been doing it this way for six years with big dee and two years with lu and never had any issues. When your cat s claws are extended you ll see the thick part of the nail and towards the cat s toe a pinkish area inside the nail called the quick. Now trim only the sharp tip of one nail release your cat s toe and quickly give her a treat. How to trim your cat s claws.

Even before they are mature enough to leap tall buildings in a single bound thanks to their claws they can still manage to climb claw and snag their way up almost any surface your leg included. Get the right supplies trimming a kitten s claws is just as easy as trimming your own nails but you will need a special cat nail trimmer you want to make sure that you are using cat nail trimmers and not a human nail trimmer as using the wrong tool may result in an injury to the kitten. In this instructable i m going to cover how to trim your cat s claws safely and easily. Don t declaw your kitten.

If your cat didn t notice clip another nail but don t trim more than two claws.