Domestic cats lead less active lifestyle, than their wild relatives – also do not manage to grind off the claws. Therefore owners periodically should cut claws to a cat – and it is necessary to do it so that not to damage to a pet.
Why to cut to a cat claws
Claws of cats, as well as human nails, constantly grow. Street cats constantly grind off "surplus", running on asphalt or getting on trees, but pets have no such opportunity therefore claws constantly grow. Also there is it even in case the cat constantly uses a claw sharpener: claws become more sharply, but is not shorter.
If cat's claws became too long – they can prevent a cat to move, clinging to a carpet or covers. Time of a cat try "to gnaw nails" during washing, trying to truncate them. It and also the amplified aspiration to sharpen claws about furniture and other firm objects, can be the certificate that the time of "manicure" came.
Besides, cats have also the fifth claw located on front pads. It does not grind off during the ordinary cat's games and grows freely. If it reaches excessive are long – they can begin to grow or pierce in small pillows of cat's pads when walking, causing to an animal unpleasant feelings.
Growth rate of claws at animals can differ, respectively, and the necessary frequency of a hairstyle can vary. In most cases owners should do cat's "manicure" approximately once a month.
Whether cats can cut nails in house conditions
Most veterinary clinics renders service of a hairstyle of claws at animals. Owners of animals with difficult character who are difficult for holding on the place during a hairstyle and also the beginning kotovladelets sometimes resort to the help of doctors in holding this procedure. But the procedure of cutting of nails at a cat is rather simple, and most of owners do it independently.
Sometimes claws at cats cut off usual cuticle or kitchen scissors, but it does the procedure quite risky: the animal can be wounded in the course of a hairstyle. In pet-shops and veterinary pharmacies it is possible to buy special guillotine scissors (they are called still trimmers or nail clippers). It is much more convenient and simpler to cut with them claws at cats, besides, trimmers have no acute external angles and the animal will not be able to be cut about them.
As it is correct to cut claws to a cat
Before a hairstyle attentively consider a cat's claw. At claws at the majority of cats light and translucent and, having looked on light, it is possible to see a pulp – the darkened area where there pass blood vessels. At a hairstyle it cannot be mentioned: damage by a vessel can lead to bleeding and inflammation, without saying that it is very painful for a cat.
Scrap of an edge of a claw where there are no blood vessels, for a cat it is painless. But, nevertheless, the majority of animals react to the procedure of "manicure" very nervously, sometimes aggressively. In that case the cat can cut nails together: one holds an animal, the second makes cutting. It is possible and wind a cat with a towel, having left outside only one pad – but in that case, of course, the animal will be strongly revolted. Therefore it is better after all to try to agree with a cat the world. After your alumna understands that in a hairstyle of nails there is nothing terrible, it will begin to treat this procedure more quietly. First the cat can cut off nails only on one pad for once.
The sequence of actions at a hairstyle of cat's claws will be following:
- Put a cat on knees, calm, stroke then take one of pads in the left hand. Record a cat's finger between the fingers (big and index) and slightly press on a small pillow. The nail plate will move forward outside.
- Look at a gleam, having defined where blood vessels come to an end.
- Arrange kogterezka tweezers perpendicular to a nail slightly lower than the level of a pulp and one movement cut off a claw tip. It is not necessary to have tweezers parallel to a claw – otherwise it can then begin to be stratified.
- Acute angles on a cut can be smoothed and rounded off by means of a usual file for nails.
- Process consistently all claws.
- After the end of a procedure praise a cat, give it delicacy, stroke. If it has pleasant memories of this procedure – next time it will be simpler to cut claws to a cat.