Clipped bunny nails ….

[Elrohwen]

… for the first time in two years!!! I’m so darn proud of myself and DH. We trimmed Otto’s a couple times when he was a baby, but started taking him to the vet once he got big and squirmy.

Yesterday we needed to check Otto’s bum because we thought he had some poop stuck there. By the time I was holding him over the kitchen counter we figured we should just try clipping his nails and he was fine! He’s such a good boy about being held now (though he obviously still hates it and we get lots of foot flicks and grouchy looks).

Then we figured we had to try Hannah. We’ve never successfully picked her up for longer than a couple seconds, so we tried putting her in the carrier and then letting her out on the kitchen counter. She tried to run away at first (not sure where she thought she was going) and I tried to pick her up to keep her from jumping off of the counter (I know she would do it too), but it didn’t go well. So I just put her down on the towel and wrapped her up a bit while DH held her still. She’s funny – even at the vet she’s horrible about being held, but if all four of her feet are on a hard surface she doesn’t much care what you do. Otto’s the opposite and if his feet are touching anything he’s going to kick and squirm, but if you pick him up and don’t give him anything to kick against he just sits here.

I’m so proud of us for just doing it! It saved us $30 at the vet’s office and having to rush out there after work.

[Sarita]

Good for you! That’s quite an accomplishment :~)

[Elrohwen]

We were both such chickens about it before. They have white nails so I don’t have a problem actually clipping, but we didn’t have a good technique to hold them and would just get really frustrated. I feel like a real bunny owner now instead of one who is afraid of 9.5 combined pounds of rabbit 😛

[Sarita]

Well that is alot of bunny there LOL. I do think the small ones are more difficult to manage though. Bobby is much harder to handle for nail trims than my big rabbits so I do understand where you are coming from.

[GrumpyBun]

I’m impressed! I have never dared try and trim my bun’s nails, partly because they have some black nails but mainly ‘cos they’re squirmy and I’m a chicken

[LoveChaCha]

Yay go Elrohwen!

I have armfuls of scratches from handling Chacha. Looks like I made a suicide attempt

[Michelle&Lolli]

Yay! I have to have a friend come over and clip Lolli’s nails while I hold her. I don’t think it’s ever easy to clip any rabbits nails. lol

[Ali925]

Good job! I was celebrating the same feat about two weeks ago. I am still proud of it lol. Our two hate being held too! It’s the simple things in life…

[peppypoo]

Haha congrats! I’m still no pro at trimming bunny nails (and too cheap to go to a vet too). So far, we trim Peppy’s nails one at a time…we try to catch her when she’s relaxing and sneak in to trim one nail at a time. It ends up being about one nail a day, which…isn’t very efficient, lol. But it (kinda) works!

[bunnytowne]

hey  thats good news

i have always done mine           cotton is so squirmy          ruby is much easier

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