gracie needed her nails trimming, allthough we kept away from the quick on a couple of ocassions she really flinched and pulled her paw away as i went 2 snip it, this upset me and the mrs so left her after that and gave her a good fuss as we felt soooo guilty!

we were terrified we'd actually hurt her, will we have caused pain or will it have just been the stress of being handled so much

when my OH does bobbys nails he pulls away the vet did it for us before that and showed us how to do it and he was pulling away she said it was cause he has tickley feet......

We now get him to play dead when doing it as he doesn't move an inch but he will still move his feet a bit it's hard watching as i feel he gets stressed at times too but he is fine after it we usually give him a treat after doing it.

*Kara*

Lottie flinches sometimes when I'm just about to snip even though I'm nowhere near the quick- I think its a bit of worry on their part-for all they know you might be too far down and they won't know until you've snipped that they are actually ok. It won't cause them any pain as long as they don't bleed, you just have to keep telling yourself your doing them a favour. I stop after each foot and give Lottie a treat to calm her down

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ok will persevere with it, bluddy horrible thinkin your stressin them out! for example trying 2 get chewy in from the garden lastnite giving us both the run around then i managed 2 grab a hold of him and held him up into my chest he was panting like hell but then a few seconds later, chatterin his teeth like ive never heard before! mustve bin a happy chappy after all that

plenty of tummy strokes to quieten down, then two to do it... just make sure you dont cut where they nail goes darker this is the blood vessel and yo ucan end up cutting the bunny - just a little bit off

yeah thats the thing i always leave a good gap between where i cut and the quick, but still flinch bless them......must just be a reaction 2 being messed about with

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