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**Pompompoms** · 01-18-2010, 03:42 AM

I have to take one of my Robos to the vet for nail trimming, we're off this afternoon as it goes.

Jam my Agouti is very good, he stays perfectly still while I trim all his nails, the most he will ever do is slowly tuck the foot you're working on in for a second, then let it out again.

The Cloud my Platinum is the oppostite end of the spectrum. Try to pick him up by his scruff and he actually screams, then if he can bites. I tried a few times with him but we weren't getting anywhere at all, and he was clearly finding it far too stressful. Even the nurse at the vets can't do him, we have to wait for the vet who pins him down so he can't move. The Cloud glares at him with hatered while he's trimmed, then sulkes in the corner for about two hours afterwards and refuses to go back to bed incase he's plucked from there again for more trimming!
He is generally highly strung to be fair though, you'd never think they were brothers!

01-18-2010, 03:42 AM
Pompompoms Retired Moderator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Hampshire Posts: 6,758	Re: Are your hamster's nails too long? I have to take one of my Robos to the vet for nail trimming, we're off this afternoon as it goes. Jam my Agouti is very good, he stays perfectly still while I trim all his nails, the most he will ever do is slowly tuck the foot you're working on in for a second, then let it out again. The Cloud my Platinum is the oppostite end of the spectrum. Try to pick him up by his scruff and he actually screams, then if he can bites. I tried a few times with him but we weren't getting anywhere at all, and he was clearly finding it far too stressful. Even the nurse at the vets can't do him, we have to wait for the vet who pins him down so he can't move. The Cloud glares at him with hatered while he's trimmed, then sulkes in the corner for about two hours afterwards and refuses to go back to bed incase he's plucked from there again for more trimming! He is generally highly strung to be fair though, you'd never think they were brothers!