• Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipOP
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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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        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