Sunday, May 02, 2004

I should clarify

Our kitten, contrary to what I posted weeks ago, is male. We were under the impression she was a he, but Nefret is now a Loki. We kept him, rather than an exchange for a female.

-And he scratches the hell out of everything
How to do

I guess I have no idea how to clip a cat's claws. I was under the impression that as I was doing this, my purpose was to stop him from pulling threads out of our pants and to stop him from leaving nasty scratches on our arms and feet. So I cut about 1/3 of his whole claw off (roughly 1/2 of the dead-skin claw). I steared clear of the flesh under his claw, and three times I cut his nails without so much as a sound of discontent from him. Then my girlfriend offered her help, I clipped a fourth claw. He let out a disgruntled meow which freaked her out. She's upset at me now, and I've got a kitten running around playing as he normally would, which is exactly what he should be doing.

I guess I'm wrong, I wasn't supposed to cut off enough claw so he'd never break our skin or rip our clothes. I was supposed to blunt the claw, take off a fraction of a millimeter from his claw. In doing so, he'd still be able to climb, still be able to 'play with his toys' but he wouldn't be able to scratch us.

-I was wrong

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