webjetter
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- Joined
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- Joined
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Just wanted to share this tip I discovered recently ... I've found that the best nail clippers are the ones for cats. I had been using the ones for rabbits but never could get a good enough grip to chop a nail before the piggie pulled her paw away. The one for cats is larger, quicker, and more effective. I purchased mine at Walmart and it's called Pet Nail Scissors -- Cats.
I also discovered that when each of my piggies is placed in an unfamiliar place, she freezes for a little while until I pet her and assure her it's okay. Now I keep the nail clippers handy when I put them in a new spot for floor time. I'll put one pig in at a time and sneak a couple of nail snips before she realizes it. Then I'll put in the other pig and do the same. It's much less traumatic than having my hubby hold her in that awkward "feet out" position while I attempt to cut nails. Ug. Mommy, Daddy, and piggies HATE that!
I came across a hysterical website called The Bad Pets List that had something so funny about guinea pig nail trimming ... this is a list of phrases Guinea Pig and other small furry critter ownees should get their naughty pets to write on a blackboard (like Bart Simpson had to do and maybe some of us had to do when we were kids and misbehaved in class.) This list makes me LAUGH so hard. Here's the one about nails we need to get our piggies to write on a blackboard about 100 times over and over:
"My toenails and hair do not have nerve endings in them. I do not need to act like my human is performing major surgery without anesthesia when she is only trimming my toenails or trimming my long hair so I can see where I'm going." -- (broken link removed)
heee heeeee!!!! lol
P.S. -- here are photos of the nail clippers:
I also discovered that when each of my piggies is placed in an unfamiliar place, she freezes for a little while until I pet her and assure her it's okay. Now I keep the nail clippers handy when I put them in a new spot for floor time. I'll put one pig in at a time and sneak a couple of nail snips before she realizes it. Then I'll put in the other pig and do the same. It's much less traumatic than having my hubby hold her in that awkward "feet out" position while I attempt to cut nails. Ug. Mommy, Daddy, and piggies HATE that!
I came across a hysterical website called The Bad Pets List that had something so funny about guinea pig nail trimming ... this is a list of phrases Guinea Pig and other small furry critter ownees should get their naughty pets to write on a blackboard (like Bart Simpson had to do and maybe some of us had to do when we were kids and misbehaved in class.) This list makes me LAUGH so hard. Here's the one about nails we need to get our piggies to write on a blackboard about 100 times over and over:
"My toenails and hair do not have nerve endings in them. I do not need to act like my human is performing major surgery without anesthesia when she is only trimming my toenails or trimming my long hair so I can see where I'm going." -- (broken link removed)
heee heeeee!!!! lol
P.S. -- here are photos of the nail clippers: