How To Restrain a Fractious Cat and Trim Cat Nails

this is dr. Andrew Jones in this section of NR secret I'm going to show you how to properly restrain a fractious cat and secondarily how to trim her nails so this happens to be my cat Gussie she really does not like having to get anything at Durrell whether I'm just trying to perform a sample exam on her show you any type of veteran procedure yet the least invasive thing even just a pet er for an excess of period of time he's a very moody cat as you know yes that's it I see she has her own ideas where on what she wants what she likes definitely under call for her own terms so to begin with I'm doing anything to worst but she such as trimming her nails she decides she can lash out I don't you can see that an opera even just trying to restrain her carplay she's giving me a big hook Gussie must be nearly 17 it's her to know but doesn't matter she's 17 and she's feisty so in terms of proper restraint what it means just sitting her here and this I've just got a big long blanket you want to you want to make sure you can restrain in front and your back legs we're just going to pull one leg out at a time it's a big long blanket might cover her entire body up here they can she she is here so she's well restrained he's all wrapped up it's like swaddling a baby in a big towel so what you're trying to do just swaddle them up as best you can if it means covering her head anything you can just turn your cat into a more pleasant creature so with her wrist she can't she's much more as you can see she's much more likely to be more amenable then her nails trimmed so there is one side I'll lie you on your side I'm going to get your right thing yes with me yes happy New Year to you too yes Jesse they're doing surgery on us just to give your nails get genuinely doing the back legs a lot easier you just sort of pin your cat down from the back they're really fast your front legs not so fast with your back legs there's are a lot more pleasant and easier they're whipped with their rows getting those front legs and claws out and when you're doing the nails I want me to see it now so visually it's quite easy to see here quick so I'm trying to cut the nail back all words white and avoiding the blood supply these nail turbines themselves are actually special nail trimmers from the clinic any pet supply store is going to have they're really nice in terms of trimming cats nails they open quite wide so I've got the full length of the nail long enough so if the nail has gotten a bit long up hiking criminals properly - I don't know if you can see they're not but I've just pushed out her nails they're extended they're usually retracted and you're just looking at the white the pink section is where the blood supply is the white section is the nail that you're wanting to trim off I'm trimming you know the quarter of an inch in front of that paint bird third is Trinidad snails thank you for watching nested ation about our secret what I want you to do now is click that link above you can subscribe to my youtube channel and then when you go ahead and sign up for my newsletter I'll send the mining special report on testing dr. Jones's advised list of dog and cat foods

Channel: Veterinary Secrets

Views: 472,375

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Length: 4min 9sec (249 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 06 2016