• Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipOP
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    I think you’re thinking of declawing.

    Trimming nails is good for the cat because otherwise the nail grows so long that it loops around and stabs into their hand. In the wild this is fixed by them breaking off as they do normal activities but they don’t do that nearly as much in a domestic situation.

    Declawing though, is cruel

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      They couldn’t loop around really. And you can only trim the very end of a cat’s nail without injuring it. If it’s purely a indoor cat just give it a few ways to scratch their nails and everything is fine without ever needing to trim the nails.

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        Weird how that’s never been the case for many of my family in the 40 years I’ve known us to keep cats.

        My sister runs a vet hospital. Last time I checked the prevailing wisdom was “yeah of course you’ll have to trim them because there’s nothing inside that’ll provide the same wearing action and keep them short otherwise” but I can ask again if need be.

        Where’d you hear such crazy ideas?

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          That’s not a crazy idea. Go ask your sis. Catss unlike dogs, have blood vessels and nerves in their nails so you can only safely trim them a few mm. A scratching post or something similar gets the job done in a safe way without trimming.

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            4 months ago

            Nobody is talking about cutting the whole nail off… We’ve been saying trimming this whole time. I don’t know where you got the idea that we were advocating cutting blood vessels instead of just doing the safe bit.

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              4 months ago

              He / she is an influencer or some other scum, don’t even pay attention to them.

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                “Don’t feed the trolls” is a Golden rule of the internet, However, providing well sourced and constructed counter arguments can be good for anyone else following the chain

                So they don’t hear only the crazies talking

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              4 months ago

              The trimming done in the pic is already too much. And why trim at all if normal scratching is more than enough?

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                The trimming in the pic is perfect. You can clearly see the quick (the opaque bit of the nail (in the shape of a triangle), before the nail starts curling) is about 1 or 2 mm away from the edge

                If the quick was cut, there’d be blood, and a very pissed cat

                I’ve got tons of cat scratchers, the ones that are very tall, so the cat can get a full stretch, and have a wide base, so they don’t fall over

                And 2 of my 3 cats still need nail trimmings about every 3-4 weeks. Otherwise their nails get stuck on things, or they claw me to death by accident since their nails are so long, they don’t fully retract

                My dog’s nails, I have the vet handle, because I cannot trim black nails without hitting the quick

                Edit: here’s a link to the scratching post I use and recommend

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            4 months ago

            of course just a few mm. but that isn’t equal to “Trimming cat nails is animal cruelty” you absolutely braindead nincompoop.

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            Apart from what other have said, you are also wrong about dogs. Dogs nails also have quick and need the same care as cats nails.