HEEEEEEELP!

I'm trying to clip Ruby's claws of doom, but she's just NOT playing along! She's too wriggly! I tried wrapping her back legs up in a towel so I could do the front, but she STILL managed to wriggle her way free.

It's easy with Motley - I can just hold her upside down, and although she does a bit of protesting it's not too difficult. Sparkle's and Rosie's haven't needed clipping as yet - but Ruby is very sharp and pointy in certain places! She's never liked being picked up - she just snuggles up to the side of me when she wants a cuddle (and won't let me hold her paws then either!)

Has anyone got any bright ideas that won't end up with me getting shredded? :lmao:

It's like she has DAGGERS growing out of her toes!

Marley was impossible to clip. It took two of us, and even then it was near impossible!! We'd wrap him in a towel and hold the scruff of his neck, but no matter... He scream bloody murder and wriggled like crazy.

I say have a claw-clipping party and invite some brave friends over. ;) Have some beer or wine handy for afterwards to celebrate and to help you forget your battle scars!!

What I do is wrap my cats fully in a towel, a full body wrap. I sit them in my lap like a baby, most times I fold the leg they're sitting on over the other leg to squeeze them a bit down there, too. I pull out one leg at a time, starting with the back legs.

Good luck - some of mine wiggle like hell but I just wrap them like mummies and make them stay put! :thumbsup:

Like Liz said, if you have someone else there to help you that may work, but I've found that someone else sometimes gets in the way (at least Erik does, he's scared to take control of them... :lmao: ).

You need mad wrestling skilz. ;) You just have to learn to ignore their howls unless it's a genuine case of you're stepping on them or cutting off their air. Anything else goes, as long as it results in your getting each claw still for the second or two it takes to clip it.

Then repeat 17 more times, give her a kiss, and you're done -- until next time. :lmao:

What I always did the first few times, though, is I'd show them me clipping my own nails first, so they can see it's not just them who has to go through it.

It also helps if you can snag them when they're asleep. Sometimes with my own cats, I'd be a quarter to half-way done before they were awake enough to realize what was going on:
:zzz: :shock: :ack: :fit: :scaredycat: :kittyluv: :hug: :smooch: :luv1: :luv2: :)

That's how I normally get Motley! :rotfl:

OK think I'll leave it for tonight, Rubes is already in a mood with me after my earlier attempts... then try again tomorrow after I've lulled her into a false sense of security! (She NEVER sleeps, so I can't get her that way....)

If I never post again, I'm bleeding to death! :lmao:

I can't even catch her tonight! I'm running round after her with a towel in one hand and the clippers in the other..... :lmao:

I think she's a ninja! :rotfl: