The MiL has a cat which we have significant difficulty trimming her claws. Namely, the cat HATES being handled unless it's on her terms. The MiL lives alone with the cat, so the cat is also only occasionally meeting us.
Now, the wife read something that suggested that, as long as the cat has one or more decent scratching posts and you monitor the claws to make sure they're not curling around into the pads, that you don't really need to trim their claws. The cat does have a nice cat tower with scratching posts, we also just bought one of those carboard scratchers as well (which the MiL said the cat was going to town on the day we brought it in)
So, is this correct, can we reduce the number of times we try to trim the claws? I'm also suspecting the suggestion from some here would be to either "purrito" the cat or scruff the cat to trim the claws. Well, to purrito the cat, you need to be able to grab the cat, and to scruff it you have to be able to grab it. Now, my other thought was, and we've not really looked into this, are there cat treats out there that will "calm" a cat? Such as the claims made by CBD infused treats?
The one thing we've noticed is, on the occasions the wife has gone to trim the claws, and the cat has been napping on the bed, getting the cat while she's still waking up works, she's FAR calmer at that time. The problem is, the MiL is almost a 45 minute drive from our place, so getting there while the cat is napping is, difficult...
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/l8nws6/trimming_a_cats_claws_or_leaving_them_be_with/
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