• SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago

      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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        4 months ago

        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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          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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              4 months ago

              “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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              4 months ago

              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.