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(Don't click on the link if you're squeamish about blood. :D) This is why I need to remember to wear shoes when playing with the cat. Completely accidental - she was rolling on the floor attacking the string I was dangling and rolled over onto my foot at just the wrong time. She's done it before, too - running after the string and took a shortcut across my foot.
At any rate, the only time she has ever deliberately scratched me was when she was at the vet and after being given shots and poked and prodded and her dignity assaulted, she wasn't about to get back in her carrier (presumably because I was going to use it to ... take her to the vet again? My cat, she is not so much with the logic), and hissed at and scratched me when I cornered her. She's otherwise a really easygoing cat.
And now, a pic the way she is most of the time, to dispell the wildcat rep she's now gotten from that other picture.
At any rate, the only time she has ever deliberately scratched me was when she was at the vet and after being given shots and poked and prodded and her dignity assaulted, she wasn't about to get back in her carrier (presumably because I was going to use it to ... take her to the vet again? My cat, she is not so much with the logic), and hissed at and scratched me when I cornered her. She's otherwise a really easygoing cat.
And now, a pic the way she is most of the time, to dispell the wildcat rep she's now gotten from that other picture.
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Though they do take shortcuts over me. I was looking at a shirt and wondering "How'd I get all these holes on the back? Is the fabric rotting or something?" Then I noticed the pattern. Must've been wearing that one when a cat decided to use me as a step-stool. At least the blood washed out.
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This one hasn't destroyed any clothing of mine. That I know of. :D She just shreds my flesh accidentally.
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There's also some sort of note on my cat's record - now when I take her to the vet for her checkup, they don't even bother doing it in the exam room, but disappear with her in the carrier to the back, where they presumably strap her up in some sort of feline bondage gear to do the exam.
As a result of which, I doubt that I'd be able to trim her claws short of anesthetizing her. :D She's got a couple of things to scratch on, so she doesn't walk around the carpet with Velcro noises.
She's gotten more friendly recently, and more willing to be hugged (although I still can't pick her up without her struggling) and occasionally sits on top of me in teh morning before I get up. Maybe I'll be able to hold her long enough to pill her or trim her claws in a couple of years.
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I hope my first didn't come across as a "you should!" I just meant if I didn't clip my cat's nails, I'd end up bloodied, too. (Still do sometimes, like during the Yearly Bath... which should be soon. o_o;)
I still have to wait until he's in the right mood (ie, catnip-stoned and half-asleep) to trim Rufus's claws, or I get ripped up in the process. And sometimes that means only doing a few at a time. Rewarding him after he's let me do it seems to help... or maybe he's just using me. He is a cat, after all.
*still snickering at the idea of feline bondage gear*
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But I feel you on the wild-cat-ness. Mine is sometimes the same, recently she bit me on the hand when I was ruffling her belly, just grabbed on with all paws and chomp!
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