Kitten Nail Splitting

[kayzee49]

So, I'm worried about one of my kitten's claws. He's about 8 months old and I've only started noticing this recently. I noticed last week his "thumb" on one side was peeling pretty badly and very waxy so I cleaned off the outer layers and wax only to find another large piece on the underside of the nail, I touched it lightly and my kitten meowed - I'm thinking it was a part of the quick but it didn't seem to be attached to the rest of his nail. 

I find fuzz stuck in splits in his claws pretty often, when I pulled one out tonight - it looks a little dirty as if maybe a small bit of blood got onto it. I looked closer at the claw and it seemed more red and bloody than the quick usually looks - there's no wet blood but I'm still a little worried. 

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• kayzee49
• Dec 31, 2015

 

[stephanietx]

He needs to have his nails trimmed regularly.  If you see nails sloughing off, that's the nail sheath and those fall off as part of the normal scratching process. 

 

[kayzee49]

We do cut his nails regularly, and this is beyond the nail that's sloughing off, it's actually bleeding from the splits in his nails. That's my main concern.