Part of it will be your demeanor and the confidence of your restraint. Most rabbits will flail and try and escape, so it’s up to each owner to find the best method to refrain their rabbit from moving. It’s important that you are calm and confident in your hold. A rabbit is more likely to harm itself if it slips out than being restrained against its will temporarily.

Do you have access to someone else to help you?

Asriel is like this, so I usually just pay the vet $15 and take him there. Which he’s never happy about ?

I’ll need to have my two buns’ nails clipped soon – I was thinking of having it done tomorrow but it’s going to be bitter cold in the morning, so I might have to wait until next weekend. Friends of Rabbits (the rabbit rescue I adopted Panda and Fernando from) does it for $12.

I used to get SO NERVOUS trimming my bunnies’ nails. And it definitely made it harder. The first few times I trimmed Jake’s nails, I was near tears I was so scared of hurting him! And the one time I cut his quick…forget about it! I felt SO GUILTY.

Then, I realized my nervousness was making the experience 500x worse. And the nearest place that trimmed bun nails was a long, stressful drive for bunny out of the way. So, I adopted a new attitude and new strategy and it worked so much better. I did the following:

1.) Picked the bun whose nails needed trimmed up like nothing was wrong
2.) Placed him/her on a soft fleece
3.) Petted him/her while I prepared stypic powder and moist q-tips “just in case”
4.) Placed a bright LED flashlight onto the buns nails to locate the quick
5.) Used the “press press clip” technique to help avoid the quick
6.) Held the bunny firmly and confidently to ensure s/he couldn’t flail and injure him/herself
7.) TREAT TIME!

I have purchased many different types of clippers and honestly, my favorite are the dog clippers from Dollar tree. I throw them out after a couple uses and get new ones to ensure they’re sharp and since they’re only $1, it’s no big deal. I also really like to file the buns’ nails down with a nail file after to make sure they won’t snag on anything.

Good luck and remember to be confident

Giving a bunny a pedicure or manicure is very nerve racking, I’m visually impaired so I do it the easy way, take Olly to the vets, he goes in with the nurse because if I go in he tries to get to me because he wants to go home.

If you have to do anything to a bunny, clip nails, brush, or even give medication you have to be confident.

Once bunny’s nails are done bunny will feel so much better and so will you