Trimming your cat’s nails may seem to be a strenuous task to you due to the risk involved. Not that you are worried about your own safety, but rather about your cat’s. You don’t want to trim its nails too short, so as to make it feel less confident after being denied its feline power, neither do you want to keep it too long, so as to leave the entire job of trimming futile. Here are a few steps that you can follow to leave your cat with just the right length of nails, so that it’s a pet inside, while a tiger outside.
5 Tips on How to Trim Your Cat’s Nails
1. Take a special claw trimmer
Never use a human nail-cutter or a regular pair of scissors to do the job. Cat’s nails are curved and need to be cut at a certain angle.
2. Put the cat on your lap
Make your cat comfortable, making it feel like it is going to have a manicure. Cuddle it for a while before taking its paw in your hand to gently trim the claws. Make sure that you do not cut too deep into the pink tissue, which is actually a part of its claw. If you cut the pink tissue, it would cause bleeding. It is important to study about the anatomy of its claws and paws, in order to know how to trim your cat’s nails properly.
3. Don’t force your cat:
Let the cat take a break, if it’s starting to get restless. If you force your way through, it might try to break away, which might cause it to get injured by receiving a cut.
4. Reward your cat
The best way to accomplish the task of trimming cat’s nails is to reward your cat every time you cut its nails. Give it some water or milk to drink after a nail-cut.
5. Do it at the right time
If you try to cut its nails at its dinner or lunchtime, you are only going to make the cat feel agitated. Choose a suitable time, when it would show least resistance- possibly a few minutes after a meal. Think of your cat as a baby; it’s best to keep it distracted when cutting its nails.
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