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Post by Shelly on Sept 3, 2012 16:39:02 GMT -8
then today she moved right when i was clipping her nails and then she was bleeding and bleeding  it finally stopped and i cleaned off her foot...  |
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Post by Casey on Sept 3, 2012 19:03:25 GMT -8
bunnies are soooo hard to trim their nails. my husband used to have one we had to trim her nails often. they kick!
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Post by Shelly on Sept 4, 2012 12:14:48 GMT -8
i have gotten mine used to me clipping her nails. for her front ones she sits on her little table and i just lift her paw a little and clip on or two then give her some oats  and even when they are not ready to be clipped i still pick up her paw and push the fur out of the way and kind of 'squeeze' her nail to get her used to the feeling of her nails being touched. and while i do that i say 'find the nail and clip it' and i say the same thing when clipping. once i just talked about clipping nails to her for about 10 minutes and after that she was pretty good with it. i try to do the same with her back ones but sometimes i have my mom hold her. but she will squirm and kick and even bite your neck (which also happens if you are carrying her around for too long |
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Post by Casey on Sept 4, 2012 17:19:38 GMT -8
my husbands bunny was wild. she was orphaned and he raised her and she was still wild. so she didnt want to be held much, though you could hold her and pet her when she sat on you, you just had trouble restraining her
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Post by Shelly on Sept 4, 2012 18:10:01 GMT -8
yeah they are really hard to keep still  |
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Post by Casey on Sept 4, 2012 20:54:41 GMT -8
im glad i dont have to trim the chinchilla's nails, they are very squirmy and very delicate!
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Post by Shelly on Sept 5, 2012 11:45:17 GMT -8
when i have a hamster it was nice not to have to clip the nails. it is so funny that the chinchillas look so big and when you pick them up they are small and weigh nothing |
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Post by Casey on Sept 5, 2012 12:42:54 GMT -8
theyre all fur lol they have 50 strands of hair per follicle!
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Post by Shelly on Sept 5, 2012 16:03:16 GMT -8
wow that is a lot of fur!
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Post by Casey on Sept 5, 2012 18:07:17 GMT -8
they are the world's softest animals too
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it finally stopped and i cleaned off her foot... 
and even when they are not ready to be clipped i still pick up her paw and push the fur out of the way and kind of 'squeeze' her nail to get her used to the feeling of her nails being touched. and while i do that i say 'find the nail and clip it' and i say the same thing when clipping. once i just talked about clipping nails to her for about 10 minutes and after that she was pretty good with it. i try to do the same with her back ones but sometimes i have my mom hold her. but she will squirm and kick and even bite your neck (which also happens if you are carrying her around for too long 