Bunnylova4eva
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So you know that cute little white bunny face in my avatar on here? Guess what: I'm getting rather convinced he's just swapted with an impersonater of himself and he's run off to some field full of carrots or something to chow down :nosir: After all, Ripley just couldn't be badly behaved...right?!
Just kidding. Down to all seriousness, lets just say that today I realized I hadn't trimmed Ripley's nails in a while. In fact, it's been at least in mid february. I pulled him out and tried every trick in the book and couldn't hardly get them trimmed for the life of me. RIpley's never been a bad boy; a bit head strong (ok, very head strong) and he's never LIKED having his nails trimmed but he would at least kinda tolerate some of them. But now, he was REALLY bad. I mean really really bad. Ripley's never bitten, but today, I saw some teeth. Anybody have some tips? I tried getting family members to help holding him down but they just let go when he starts being squiggley. I can hold him down fine myself but then it's hard to trim too. I got the nails all done in the end myself, but let me tell you: it took some skills and half an hour of my day (at least!). Not only was it a huge pain for me, but I know he really was stressed by the whole ordeal. Not scared, he just hated it and wanted away. But the time we were done his eyes looked like they'd been running (there hadn't been a sign of that before)
Tips? Ideas for getting him to associate it as a possitive thing? He loves food opcorn2 and would eat it throughout our battle of nail trimming but he didn't seem to associate it with behaving, unfortunately.
Just kidding. Down to all seriousness, lets just say that today I realized I hadn't trimmed Ripley's nails in a while. In fact, it's been at least in mid february. I pulled him out and tried every trick in the book and couldn't hardly get them trimmed for the life of me. RIpley's never been a bad boy; a bit head strong (ok, very head strong) and he's never LIKED having his nails trimmed but he would at least kinda tolerate some of them. But now, he was REALLY bad. I mean really really bad. Ripley's never bitten, but today, I saw some teeth. Anybody have some tips? I tried getting family members to help holding him down but they just let go when he starts being squiggley. I can hold him down fine myself but then it's hard to trim too. I got the nails all done in the end myself, but let me tell you: it took some skills and half an hour of my day (at least!). Not only was it a huge pain for me, but I know he really was stressed by the whole ordeal. Not scared, he just hated it and wanted away. But the time we were done his eyes looked like they'd been running (there hadn't been a sign of that before)
Tips? Ideas for getting him to associate it as a possitive thing? He loves food opcorn2 and would eat it throughout our battle of nail trimming but he didn't seem to associate it with behaving, unfortunately.
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