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The groomer gets expensive, though. Cooper's nails need clipping once every few weeks.
Cooper tolerates the old-fashioned clipper pretty well. The cats don't. Or... didn't, until we discovered scruffing them. If you grab a cat by the loose skin on the back of its neck, it suddenly relaxes. In the cat's mind, it's mother has it and there's no sense in fighting mom. They may not like it, but they resign themselves to it.
It's still a two-person job. One of us (me) scruffs, the other (lurkette) quickly clip-clip-clips, and it's over in thirty seconds. Versus, used to be, I'd wrap a cat up in a towel, extract one paw while avoiding teeth and claws, clip 'em, rewrap, unwrap... Like a cat tortilla. Long, miserable process for biped and quadruped alike.
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