On 2/27/2021 8:47 PM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:31:02 -0800 (PST), "
> > wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 3:20:35 PM UTC-6, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>
>>> There is nothing stopping a person using clippers and trimming the
>>> front paw nails, has worked with all my cats. Need to do it about
>>> every 2 or 3 weeks.
>>>
>> I would trim Pema's back claws every 2 or 3 weeks. When she'd walk across me
>> and I'd feel those little daggers digging in I'd trim them the next day. They were
>> trimmed the morning she got sick and went to the vet for the last time.
>>
>> :`o(
>
> To prevent furniture clawing you only need to do front claws.
>
Joan's point wasn't about furniture clawing. It was those little
needle-sharp rear claws when they're walking across you. Buffy likes to
sit in my lap when I'm typing. I wear shorts in the house mostly year
round. I have to place a double folded towel across my lap because when
she jumps up and turns around a few times before getting settled those
rear claws hurt! Buffy's vet trims both front and back. It's nice not
to have sharp little claws making pinpricks in your skin.

Jill

dsi1 wrote:

> On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 11:39:32 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:33:18 -0500, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
> > > On 2/27/2021 4:20 PM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:10:35 +1100, Bruce >
> > wrote: >>>
> > >>> Yes, it's mutilation. If you're that worried about your
> > furniture, get >>> a goldfish.
> > >>
> > > My cat Buffy has all her claws. You can buy large rolls of clear
> > > double-sided sticky tape. If you don't want want your cat to claw
> > > the furniture, try putting some of that on the areas where they
> > > like to scratch the fabric on furniture. Cats don't like sticky
> > > tape.
> > >
> > >> There is nothing stopping a person using clippers and trimming
> > the >> front paw nails, has worked with all my cats. Need to do it
> > about >> every 2 or 3 weeks.
> > >>
> > > Nothing, perhaps, except the cat itself. Initially Buffy had
> > > no problem with me clipping her nails. I was very careful not to
> > > cut too far back. She decided she didn't like it, though, and
> > > started fighting me tooth and nail (pardon the pun!. Her vet does
> > > it, no charge.
> > It's strange how cats can let the vet do to them what they won't
> > let their owners do. They go in some sort of freeze mode at the
> > vet's and don't resist much, as long as it doesn't really hurt.
> > --
> > The real Bruce posts with Eternal September
>
> That's what happens when you're taken out of your normal environment
> i.e., your comfort zone. Well, if you're a cat anyway.

Not Daisy-chan though. She was easily handled by us but tended to turn
into a whirling ball of claws at the vets.

On 2/28/2021 10:26 AM, Gary wrote:

>>
>> To prevent furniture clawing you only need to do front claws.
>
> True. Back claws on both cats and ferrets usually stay dull too. Only
> the front ones can get very sharp and if you don't trim them, they will
> actually grow long and curl back into their toes.
>
> I don't think trimming cat front claws stop the scratching but it does
> reduce the damage they can do.* Ferrets don't scratch anything like cats
> do.
>
> Mr.Kitty was retarded. After his morning poop, he knew to scratch but
> never learned it was to bury his poo.* He would scratch the wall next to
> his litter box and leave to poo unburied.* Did that every morning and
> the smell would drift into my room. Had to get up and bury the poo for him.
>
> This could have been an ongoing contest of who was the Alpha here. LOL

So did you bury Mr. Kitty one morning?

On 2/28/2021 9:00 AM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
> Trees are normal scratching posts in the wild. Wood wears down cat claws,
> carpeting does not and may even harm a cat as the claws become snagged
> in the carpeting.
>

Does your Mexican skank pussy enjoy morning wood?

Jill

On 2021-02-28 8:46 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/27/2021 8:42 PM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:37:00 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:20:30 -0400, Lucretia Borgia
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:10:35 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:06:02 -0500, jmcquown >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/23/2021 11:25 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 9:04:26 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:27:43 -0800 (PST), "
>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My last 2? cats were indoor cats and that's because they were
>>>>>>>>> declawed.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wondering when de clawed will be outlawed in America. It's barbaric
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They came to me already declawed.Â* Any cats that I adopted in the
>>>>>>> past were
>>>>>>> all fully loaded.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I, too, think declawing is horrific.Â* My cat Persia was
>>>>>> front-declawed
>>>>>> before she ever came to live with me.Â* I would never do that to a
>>>>>> cat.
>>>>>> I noticed she used to step rather gingerly, especially on one
>>>>>> front paw.
>>>>>> Â* I'm sure having the end of her toes cut off (ugh) had something
>>>>>> to do
>>>>>> with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it's mutilation. If you're that worried about your furniture, get
>>>>> a goldfish.
>>>>
>>>> There is nothing stopping a person using clippers and trimming the
>>>> front paw nails, has worked with all my cats.Â* Need to do it about
>>>> every 2 or 3 weeks.
>>>
>>> We've got a scratch pad for our cats. One of them uses it the moment
>>> he sees me get up in the morning. "Food's coming, time for a
>>> celebratory scratch!"
>>
>> Yes I have those too, but that doesn't prevent her from showing
>> dislike by clawing the furniture too.
>>
> I don't think it's dislike.Â* It's a natural thing.Â* Buffy has a piece of
> cat furniture with four wooden posts and she definitely uses them.Â* She
> has a flat cardboard scratcher, too.Â* She uses them a lot but it doesn't
> trim the nails and they didn't stop her from stretching up and clawing
> the back corners of the Queen Anne style chairs in the living room.
> That's when I applied the two-sided sticky tape.Â* That stopped her.
>
> Jill
How many days ago was it that I reckoned any post to Jill would end up
about cats? :-) :-) :-)

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:26:01 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>On 2/27/2021 8:47 PM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:31:02 -0800 (PST), "
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 3:20:35 PM UTC-6, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is nothing stopping a person using clippers and trimming the
>>>> front paw nails, has worked with all my cats. Need to do it about
>>>> every 2 or 3 weeks.
>>>>
>>> I would trim Pema's back claws every 2 or 3 weeks. When she'd walk across me
>>> and I'd feel those little daggers digging in I'd trim them the next day. They were
>>> trimmed the morning she got sick and went to the vet for the last time.
>>>
>>> :`o(
>>
>> To prevent furniture clawing you only need to do front claws.
>
>True. Back claws on both cats and ferrets usually stay dull too. Only
>the front ones can get very sharp and if you don't trim them, they will
>actually grow long and curl back into their toes.

We never trim our cats' claws and they don't curl back into their
toes.

--
The real Bruce posts with Eternal September

Bryan wrote:

> Lucretia Borgia wrote: (about declawing a cat)
>> It is such a cruel operation it was banned here several years ago.
>> Very simple to trim the claws regularly.
>>
> Very easy to return it to the animal shelter to be gassed.

LOL. I like your sense of humor.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> Gary wrote:
>> Mr.Kitty was retarded. After his morning poop, he knew to scratch but
>> never learned it was to bury his poo. He would scratch the wall next
>> to his litter box and leave to poo unburied. Did that every morning
>> and the smell would drift into my room. Had to get up and bury the poo
>> for him.
>> This could have been an ongoing contest of who was the Alpha here. LOL

> So did you bury Mr. Kitty one morning?

I sure did, sadly. It wasn't over the litter box thing though. He just
died of old age at 19.5 years. Big loss. Even the 2 ferrets kept looking
for him for awhile on his "favorite chair."

On 2/28/2021 12:21 PM, Bruce wrote:
> Gary > wrote:
>> True. Back claws on both cats and ferrets usually stay dull too. Only
>> the front ones can get very sharp and if you don't trim them, they will
>> actually grow long and curl back into their toes.
>
> We never trim our cats' claws and they don't curl back into their
> toes.

All that says to me is that your cats have found something to scratch
and trim their own claws.

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 06:26:43 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>On 2/28/2021 12:21 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> Gary > wrote:
>>> True. Back claws on both cats and ferrets usually stay dull too. Only
>>> the front ones can get very sharp and if you don't trim them, they will
>>> actually grow long and curl back into their toes.
>>
>> We never trim our cats' claws and they don't curl back into their
>> toes.
>
>All that says to me is that your cats have found something to scratch
>and trim their own claws.

I guess so.

--
The real Bruce posts with Eternal September

jmcquown wrote:
> My cat Buffy has all her claws. You can buy large rolls of clear
> double-sided sticky tape. If you don't want want your cat to claw the
> furniture,

ha ha When I first started reading this, I though you were going to
suggest putting sticky tape on her paws.

> try putting some of that on the areas where they like to
> scratch the fabric on furniture. Cats don't like sticky tape.

I used to tease my cat and all ferrets by putting a strip of scotch tape
on their heads...long enough where they could see it up there. They all
went nuts trying to get it off. Didn't take long. lol