Incredible Pet Nail Trimmer?

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My sister saw an infomercial for this nail trimmer and told me that I should get one for my cat. I looked at it on their website, but I'm concerned that it is just a scam. After all, if it was good, wouldn't all the pet supply places have it? Anyone have any experience with this--or opinion?

If it's "better," I'd certainly get one, but I'm not sure that it's what they claim it is.
 

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I'm assuming its the PETicure. I think there was a recent post about it. I dont' believe it seems worthwhile.

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If it's the Peticure, I agree it seems like a scam. For one thing, they don't let you hear what kind of noise it makes...probably a really loud motor (cats don't like loud!) and it's not hard to trim their nails every once in a while. IMO, any 'high tech' way of trimming nails is more work than the old fashioned way, just some cat nail trimmers.
 

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When I saw that I thought it looked like it would take longer with that thing then just clipping them. After all no cat likes to sit like that for any length of time. Plus that cat getting it done looks like they gave him drugs to make him sit like that. He looks kinda spaced out!
 

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Originally Posted by Aileen06

Plus that cat getting it done looks like they gave him drugs to make him sit like that. He looks kinda spaced out!
Lol..that's exactly what I thought! My mom and I saw the commercial and she said "somethings not right with that cat"
 

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All the pet nails in that ad are also ALREADY done!!!

Sorry, but as an experienced dog\\cat groomer, I can honestly say I would not add something like this to my tool 'shed'. Most animals will take a long time to get used to anything like this tool; I very occasionally use a regular dremel tool (one with variable speed settings) on dogs...and it is MUCH longer to dremel their nails back, than it would be to simply take a nail clipper after them...
 

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I had my dogs in for their annual appointment and had the vet trim their nails for me (huge dogs = huge nails). He whined about his poor hands - laughingly - and that brought up the nail grinder. As he said, it's noisy and pets don't like that. And it doesn't do anything to sense the nerve or vein, so you could grind into it.
 

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I don't believe it is a clipper more then it's a fancy, electronic nail file. I don't think my cats would put up with it. It would take too long.
 
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