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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    He only wounded me the first ever time I cut his nails. Never since. Like I said he's fine once I'm actually cutting the nails. Try reading my replies. I'm respectful of everyone who answered even though it's obvious some commenters did'nt bother to read my posts or replies since they post...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    I've had the one 20 year old get ingrown nails which was very painful and traumatizing for her. She hated vets and meds so had a lot of trauma with vets and meds and procedures that I could have avoided by just cutting her nails a bit more. I have two cats now and have had TEN cats die of...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    What I do for work doesn't really matter lol. I have a ton of experience with cats, dogs, horses and professionally in the mental health field with humans. Currently I work full time in an ER for the income and benefits bit I have many years experience training and instructing horses and...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    You should read my earlier posts and replies. Cats nails can actually grow into their paws since they grow in a circle. I've seen it happen in my twenty year old cat and I've had several senior cats get thickened nails splinter and break. If I'm going to feed and pay for vets and lifelong...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    That's a good point! I started out with lofty goals of training/socializing him much better than this. But working again full time in an ER is stressful and exhausting and I've focused on training my dog to be good when I take him out. Plus I got COVID a year ago before the vaccines were...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    I had one cat who lived to be twenty. She hated having her nails cut so I didn't do it very much. At twenty her nails literally grew into the pads of her paws and were very painful. As cats age their nails get thicker and break and splinter more and give them problems. They can give them...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    That's a good point. He actually just let me do it but he had to go all last night and today without eating and he's a total foodie who's usually constantly saying. I think he did eat earlier when I fell asleep but not as much as he usually does. He was trying to go out of the room after I...
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    Cat VERY aggressive with nail trims

    I'm not new to owning cats, I've owned them my whole life and have had at least 12 that I can remember and lost many to cancer and old age from ages 14 to 20. Most I had from kittenhood on but I've also taken in a few feral kittens, a couple of adult strays who were abused and even one adult...
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    Cat tried to attack my baby

    I'm glad you're going to try to work it out. Maybe in the future if you ever let her near your son on a trial basis sedate her beforehand? I had multiple cats and one was an adult senior feral who I've posted about years ago. He was heartbroken when his favorite tame cat buddy died suddenly...
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    Cat tried to attack my baby

    My dog gets aggressive when he's sick or in pain. He doesn't attack people he gets into provoked fights at the dog park or barks at people I had a cat that peed on beds when he was on pain he had a painful cancer and needed pain meds
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    Cat bites and freaks during nail trims

    Thanks for your reply! I'm always afraid that if I let them get away with an undesired behavior like pulling away and leaving in training them that they can do it and it's acceptable. I should have just done it in the bathroom like the previous times where he can take a break but not actually...
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    Does anybody else think of their cat as a “person”?

    Definitely! My animals are my family just like my human family!
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    Cat bites and freaks during nail trims

    I have 2 cats and a large dog who all get along well together. They're all pretty bonded to me. Both cats were feral street kittens. The older cat I found at 3 months old on the street in Aruba. I literally picked him up took him to the vet and flew him home to the US and he's almost 10 now...
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    Already Have A Male 7 Months Cat Neutered

    I've had long neutered males try to mount/hump both males and females, both for dominance and for fun. Neutered animals still feel all the pleasure that non neutered animals do, there's just no risk of pregnancy. I've had cats, dogs and horses for decades and definitely have heard that neutered...
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    Is My New Cat Harvey Weinstein??

    My cats were definitely humping lol. IIalso saw parts of them I never saw before or really wanted to see lol despite them being neutered. I know what fighting and play fighting looks like, quite different. Unfortunately I know only too well what true humping looks like, my large dog used to...
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