Things to note when cutting your cat’s nails

Feb 23,2024
3Min

Precautions for cutting cat nails:

1. To cut cat nails, you need to use cat nail clippers, try not to use them for humans. Because human nail clippers are not particularly convenient for cutting cats' nails, and they can easily damage the cat's nails.

2. Before cutting the cat’s nails, you need to soothe the cat’s emotions and keep the cat in a relaxed and quiet state. When a cat refuses to have its nails cut or even becomes irritable, do not force the cat to have its nails cut. Because forcibly cutting a cat's nails will make it resist, and it will easily make it not want to have its nails cut again in the future.

3. The cat should be fixed when you start to cut nails. If it is an obedient cat, just hold it in your arms. If it is a cat that likes to resist, you can wrap the cat in a blanket and expose it to cut nails. Just one foot. Hold the cat's paw with your hand and gently press the pad to squeeze the cat's nails out of the pad. Then you need to determine the cat's blood line. The blood line is usually the color boundary. The common areas near the toes are pink and the areas far away are gray and white. The gray and white area is the area that can be cut. Cut the arc-shaped part of the nail clipper and put it on the cat's nail. Be careful to keep it slightly away from the blood line, do not cut along the blood line, and then cut it off. If you cut the blood line and bleed, don't be nervous. Use toilet paper or cotton balls to press it to stop the bleeding. If the bleeding doesn't stop, you can apply a little Yunnan Baiyao.

4. After cutting the cat’s nails, you can reward the cat with delicious food. This will let it know that cutting nails is not terrible, and it will also get delicious rewards.

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