Those cats that are very good at cutting their nails belong to other people’s families. My cat is very resistant to having their nails cut. After practice, I have summarized some tips for cutting cats’ nails and shared them with everyone.

The safest and most convenient way to trim your cat’s nails

Trim the cat's nails when the cat is sleeping. At this time, the cat will not wake up no matter how hard you try, so feel free to trim it without any problem. There will be no problem at all.

Of course, you need to be careful not to cut the cat’s blood line and the cat’s small paw pads.

Gently pinch the cat's paw pads, and the cat's claws will protrude from the pads. In order to prevent cutting the blood line and the cat's paw pads, you can make the cat's claws protrude longer.

If the cat wakes up as soon as you move its paws, it means that the cat is not sleeping deeply and is between half asleep and half awake. At this time, you can rub the cat’s paw pads, hide the tools, and pretend that nothing has happened. If this happens, touch the cat's head and let it continue to sleep.

Just change it to a time when the cat is sleeping.

If you insist on cutting, then do it one nail at a time. Cut one nail and pet the cat for a while before cutting the next one. A half-asleep cat thinks you are petting it, but in fact you are secretly trimming its nails. ​​​​​​

Forcing cats to cut their nails

Wrap the cat in a blanket and expose its head. Put an Elizabethan hood on the cat. Clamp the cat's hind limbs with your legs. Take out the paw that needs to be trimmed.

If you don’t have an Elizabethan hood at home, you can make one yourself out of a paper shell.

Continue to wrap the trimmed paws in the blanket, and replace the paws that need to be trimmed.

It would be much easier if there are two people working together, one feeding the cat delicious food to comfort the cat, and the other trimming the cat's nails. If you are alone, you need to stop clipping the nails and give the cat a tasty bite to comfort it when it resists fiercely.

Give the cat something delicious to comfort after trimming its nails, so that the cat will be less averse to the nail trimming behavior.

It should be reminded that it is best to use professional nail clippers for cats. Scissors and human nail clippers are easy to split cat nails, and it is not easy to control the depth, and may cut to the blood line of cat nails.