The cats who are constantly living in house conditions have no opportunity to fully grind claws about various surfaces and to get rid of the excess horny particles. The animal needs to be helped with "manicure", otherwise its claws will begin to break, be bent and damage small pillows of paws. The hairstyle is fraught with injuries therefore it demands ability and care. Before starting this procedure, observe work of the expert.
It is required to you
- - apron or a dressing gown with pockets ahead;
- - cap and sheet (diaper);
- - table;
- - bath mat;
- - lighting fixture;
- - nippers for a hairstyle of claws or cuticle scissors;
- - file for nails or emery bar;
- - sterile cotton wool and peroxide of hydrogen.
Instruction
1. Prepare for a hairstyle of cat's claws. If the animal is not accustomed to this hygienic procedure from early age, then for certain will quietly not suffer it. To be necessary for you the assistant to hold a cat. Put on a dressing gown or an apron with pockets ahead and put in them necessary tools – that "manicure" did not drag on, you have to have everything near at hand.
2. Wrap a cat in a sheet or a big diaper, and put on a special cap the head (it can be bought in pet-shop). It is necessary to secure itself against stings and scratches. In processing of claws you will release paws of a pet on one.
3. Put a steady table in well lit place (before a window, near the powerful lighting fixture) and lay it a rug for a bathtub on suckers – then you will not be afraid that the resisting animal suddenly will slide.
4. Slightly press down a small pillow of a cat's paw from above and from below a claw – it will be extended and it will be possible to start its processing. Begin to cut to a cat claws small parts, slowly. Near a corneal layer there is a pulp which you should not touch at all. Examine a claw on light and if it not pigmented, then you will see a blood vessel (pink basis).
5. Cut off a claw of a cat at distance about 2 mm from a visible sensitive zone. Dark claws to make secure, do not remove too shortly - repeat a hairstyle in two weeks better. If after all you damaged a vessel and there was blood, process a wound hydrogen peroxide.
6. Do only cross (not slanting!) cuts cuticle scissors or special nippers for a hairstyle of claws of animals. Track that the working tool was very sharply ground.
7. Pay attention to claws in a paw of a cat (so-called "pribyly claws"). They can grow into a small pillow and hurt an animal therefore they are subjected to obligatory processing.
8. Polish the uneven ends of the cut-off cat's claws at first largely, - then a fine-grained file for nails. It is possible to use also emery bar. Surely calm the cat and give him a favourite treat, otherwise for the postponed stress this freedom-loving animal can nurse on you a grievance.