meinws
As crazy as this sounds…. IT WORKS.
I have sibling kitties, one brother and one sister. My girl kitty will sit on my lap and let me file her claws with a nail file – my boy kitty – not so much. He stresses a LOT when we try to do his claws.
I don’t remember where or why we tried this, but we took a sock (men’s sport sock – clean) and put it over his head. The second the sock is on – he thinks he’s somewhere that he can’t move, his paws come up and he basically gets in a fetal position. It takes about 45 seconds to clip the nails – on all four paws – and when you pull the sock off – he’s just excited because he’s out of the ‘hole’ he was in and has no idea that we’ve clipped his nails.
Good luck – this method was the result of trying posts, tapes, sprays, etc. to no avail.