Hi,
I'll keep this short. Basically, we recently lost our cat of 15 years to cancer who was survived by our 5 year old female black cat Sami and we have just recently got a 6 month old kitten JJ. Sami isn't taking to JJ too well (it's only been a couple of weeks but we're taking it slow) but we have high hopes since she has been around our deceased cat her whole life.
JJ is good about getting his paws touched and the foster parent we got him from said he is good with getting his nails trimmed. Unfortunately, we never did this with Sami and I KNOW she wouldn't stand for us to try and trim her claws at this point.
My concern is that, in these early days of getting to know each other, that JJ will be at a disadvantage if I trim his claws. Should I take Sami to the vet (which she hates anyway) and have them trim her claws to balance the playing field?
Any advice helps.
Thanks,
D
I'll keep this short. Basically, we recently lost our cat of 15 years to cancer who was survived by our 5 year old female black cat Sami and we have just recently got a 6 month old kitten JJ. Sami isn't taking to JJ too well (it's only been a couple of weeks but we're taking it slow) but we have high hopes since she has been around our deceased cat her whole life.
JJ is good about getting his paws touched and the foster parent we got him from said he is good with getting his nails trimmed. Unfortunately, we never did this with Sami and I KNOW she wouldn't stand for us to try and trim her claws at this point.
My concern is that, in these early days of getting to know each other, that JJ will be at a disadvantage if I trim his claws. Should I take Sami to the vet (which she hates anyway) and have them trim her claws to balance the playing field?
Any advice helps.
Thanks,
D