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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I almost died reading Brudder Elwoods' nail trimming experience over the weekend. Ya see not more than 30 minutes prior, after catching my breath, we had just gone through something so-o-o similar in the Paul household with Stonewall. Ya see, da kid jest don lik his tooties touched!! I give both him and Samantha medication to "knock 'em out". It works great for Samantha, as soon as she is comatose, out comes the nail clippers and off come the long nails. Now Stonewall, on the other hand, just refuses to allow the meds to work. Oh sure he was sound asleep on my lap snoring, but as soon as I touched his paws, awake he became. I would wait until he feel alseep again; touched the toes, and wake he would become. Finally, I just tossed the clippers to DH and said "go for it". I held Stonewall tightly in my lap while DH clipped nails on front paws. OMG what a struggle - the screaming, the squirming, the teeth nashing (all from Stonewall). Finally after getting just the front toesies done, I let Stonewall off my lap just to let him calm down. That's when I knew he was really mad at me - he peed on me!!!!!! Well, both DH and myself just laughed and said "I just he just showed me what his true feelings are about getting his nails cllipped." I guess I will have have to call the vet and let them have him for a day as long as they trim them short enough (which sometimes they don't). Thanks goodness, no tail pipe emissions!!!!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Marie Paul</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Slave to Stonewall (no way in he*** will anyone touch my toeies)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And Samantha (what jus happened?)</FONT>
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