• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 years 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?

    • SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years 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.

      • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipOP
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        2 years 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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            2 years 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

        • SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 years ago

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