Guinea pig - a good-natured and quiet pet. It is considered that pigs are more unpretentious, than dogs or cats. But some procedures of care for them need to be observed surely that the small animal was healthy and vigorous. For example, the attention is required by claws of a mumps: one-two times a year them need to be cut as at domestic rodents the claws do not grind off naturally. Too long claws can cause to a mumps of inconvenience, pain and will even complicate its movement.
It is required to you
- - special tweezers or scissors for cutting of claws (they can be got in veterinary pharmacy);
- - bright lamp or small lamp;
- - the assistant who could take a mumps;
- - disinfecting and styptic means in case of injury of blood vessels.
Instruction
1. Ask the assistant to hold a mumps before a light source so that you could having taken it for a pad, to see a claw on a gleam. It is necessary in order that when trimming claws not to touch blood vessels. Define the place to which it is possible to cut a claw: it has to be its transparent part completely visible on a gleam. If claws at a small animal dark, highlight them from below a dot small lamp. It is worth cutting claws alone in case you already rather well are able to do it, and a mumps very quiet.
2. Cut a claw within one third of its length. Try to arrange the tool so that the cutting edge was across a claw, otherwise the claw can crack. The mumps needs to be held carefully, but it is strong. What peaceful animal she would not be, but the procedure is unpleasant to her, and the pig, most likely, will try to escape, or to release a pad. In the same way cut other claws.