Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍃 Wednesday, April 24, 2024
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago
How does a pampered house cat get her claws so sharp?😖 She’s tap dancing in my lap, pulling threads out of my good trackies and the skidding is dragging her claws through my flesh.
She much prefers to be grubby but I need to clean her eyes, have another wipe at the remnants of the ear drops and clip her nails.
ajsadauskas@aus.social 5 months ago
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ How often do you trim her nails?
A good scratching pad can help too.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago
As often as she allows - which is to say, not often. She also grows them back so fast.
She’s got two cat trees she uses but those just seem to file them sharper. I’ll see if I can find an affordable scratch pad
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
sharpening is exactly what she is doing, she’s removing old nail layers to reveal the new sharp ones
walking outside tends to dull cat claws
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Ahh, no chance of that. If I let her outside she’ll pick up fresh fleas and/or abscond
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It might not. I have two, one blunts himself perfectly, the other is pointy as F. Same scratch trees etc never tried cutting them. Best guess is the blunt one spends more time in the tile end of the house, grout.
ajsadauskas@aus.social 5 months ago
@Catfish I've found the secret is to get them when they're still half asleep.
And just one paw at a time — don't think you'll get all four done in one go.