Comments on: Kitty likes to scratch http://kitsandmortar.com/2008/09/13/kitty-likes-to-scratch/ writing our home into existence Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:05:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Suw http://kitsandmortar.com/2008/09/13/kitty-likes-to-scratch/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Suw Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:52:18 +0000 http://kitsandmortar.com/2008/09/13/kitty-likes-to-scratch/#comment-154 That makes a lot of sense - it's the same technique for getting a cat used to grooming (which I'm trying to convince my parent to do with Fflwff). If you play with kitty's paws, then give them a treat, they'll soon be happy with you playing with their paws. Trimming the very tips off the claws or gluing on tips will be less... dangerous. Equally, brushing kitty a few times then giving him or her a treat will acclimatise kitty to being groomed. Fflwff has awful mats in her fur, and it's impossible to trim them out because she freaks out. I'm hoping that some preliminary training will go a long way towards helping solve the problem. That makes a lot of sense – it’s the same technique for getting a cat used to grooming (which I’m trying to convince my parent to do with Fflwff). If you play with kitty’s paws, then give them a treat, they’ll soon be happy with you playing with their paws. Trimming the very tips off the claws or gluing on tips will be less… dangerous.

Equally, brushing kitty a few times then giving him or her a treat will acclimatise kitty to being groomed. Fflwff has awful mats in her fur, and it’s impossible to trim them out because she freaks out. I’m hoping that some preliminary training will go a long way towards helping solve the problem.

]]> By: steph http://kitsandmortar.com/2008/09/13/kitty-likes-to-scratch/comment-page-1/#comment-153 steph Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:43:39 +0000 http://kitsandmortar.com/2008/09/13/kitty-likes-to-scratch/#comment-153 I read somewhere, someday, how to get yourself (and your kitty) to a point where you can clip his/her claws: when the cat is resting, and you're cuddling, petting, etc -- get it used to you playing with its paws and claws. If you do that all the time, then clipping claws isn't a big deal -- the cat isn't going to freak because all of a sudden your touching its paws, which you never do. I read somewhere, someday, how to get yourself (and your kitty) to a point where you can clip his/her claws: when the cat is resting, and you’re cuddling, petting, etc — get it used to you playing with its paws and claws.

If you do that all the time, then clipping claws isn’t a big deal — the cat isn’t going to freak because all of a sudden your touching its paws, which you never do.

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