Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

I've had reasonable success with all the cats in my household - I had 2 for maybe 18 years total, then 1 for another 15-ish years, and now we have this new one. My 2 kids each have cats that stay with us for either a few days or a few weeks at a time instead of being boarded somewhere. I'm the one that handles pills, meds, injections, claw trimming, and whatever else needs doing. I take our previous vet's advice, "You just have to show them who's boss." It helps a lot that they are familiar with me, and I don't waste any time. Grab them, do what needs doing, and finish before they realize what just happened. Then give them a treat. I've bled a couple of times, but not many. Once I was trying to get a pill down the gullet of one of the cats and she jerked her head and I caught a tooth. I wasn't really bitten on purpose, but the result was the same. Another time I just didn't do a good enough job of securing one of the cats and it tried to push off with a back leg and a claw caught me.

It happens.

I think I'll let this one settle in and get comfortable a little while longer before I attempt any claw trimming. The more you do it, the more they get used to it. They never seem to enjoy it, but they seem to stop putting up as much of a fight.
 
Family quotes

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
— Nora Ephron

“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”
― Charlotte Gray

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
― Mae West

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
— Jerry Seinfeld

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw

"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
— George Carlin

“The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.”
— Oscar Wilde

“Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.”
— Pauline Thomason

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
— George Burns

“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
― P.J. O’Rourke

“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.”
-- Shirley MacLaine
 
Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? He needed some space.

Why did the blind miner fall in the hole? He couldn't see well.
 
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