Top Performance Nylon Cat Grooming Bag, Medium, Black Reviews

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1. 149 of 153 people found the following review helpful

   
   A Fantastic Kitty StraightJacket!, January 1, 2012

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   StealthBunny (Upstate NY) –

   I have often said that I would never have a pet whose nails I could not trim myself. Meaning that I would always train my pets well enough to be handled.

   Then two things happened. The first was gradual – my fibromyalgia advanced to a point where my hands were no longer as strong and steady as they used to be.

   The second was that I found a feral cat under my home and couldn’t bear to set her up for adoption, as I had several other strays that found their way to my all-you-can-eat buffet… er, I mean, birdfeeders. Little Mew wanted to become a housecat, but wanting and becoming were two different things, we both found out. Mostly over nail trimming. She was small and squirmy and not afraid to use her teeth, and I am large and clumsy and was definitely afraid of hurting her. Nail trimmings became an experience full of her strange angry-ferret noises (she makes the strangest noises when she’s angry!!), my bleeding, and her withdrawal to my linen closet (she lived in my linen closet for six months, but every time I went by, the closet purred at me, so I gathered she found it a great improvement over starving and freezing outdoors).

   Mew and I received this for Christmas. I had studied other versions, but they were much more expensive and then were no longer available here on Amazon. This looked like a hopeful solution, so I put it on my Amazon wishlist and Gramma Santa came through.

   In the preceding months, Mew had become much more comfortable with being held, but NOT with nail trimming. Getting her to lay on top of the unzipped-and-flat bag was easy. Zipping her up INSIDE the bag and velcro-ing snugly around her neck wasn’t that difficult either. No bleeding or angry-ferret noises yet. So far so good. I gave her a treat. Mew LOVES food. Reached into the first zipper pocket, trimmed a front paw’s nails. Some squirming. Another treat. Wow! This was working! Tucked her paw back in the pocket, zipped her in. Did the next front paw. A little more squirming. Another treat, tucked her paws in, zipped.

   The back feet were always the worst. She did NOT like having her back feet touched, much less handled. This was usually when I bled the most. Unzipped, reached in for the paw… Mew let out… well, not an angry ferret noise, but a low cry of woe. Touched the paw, and she tried to struggle out of the bag. And couldn’t do it. She managed to almost get a front paw out of the neck-hole, but I tucked it back in. She tried to roll, but the bag rolled with her. By this time, I had a bag of catnip open and shoved it up to her nose. Mew is a catnip whore. She sniffed deeply… relaxed. After that, I trimmed both back paws with no more fuss than one more mew of woe and every time she started to tense or struggle, I shoved the catnip bag back into her face.

   There was no bloodshed. There were no angry ferret noises. And once released, she let me snuggle her and was ready for treats and a game of Catch The Furry Mowsie. It was the least stressful nail trimming we had ever done. She even gave the grooming bag a good curiosity-sniffing afterwards, rather than being wary of it.

   Granted, this time I had the advantage of surprise and the next trim may be more difficult… but my first opinion of this is that it is fantastic and anything that helps keep my little ex-feral working in the right direction towards happy housecat is way up high in my esteem.

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2. 148 of 152 people found the following review helpful

   
   Gotcha now, you little s***!!, July 10, 2013

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   VietMom (United States) –

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   This is a kitty straight jacket and worked better than my Plan A (wrapping myself like a mummy in Carhartt) but I still sat on the cat’s ass while I snipped for old times sake. Plus, when I was done I could walk around town with a duffle bag full of madass kitty and nobody was messing with me then, no sir ee.

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3. 407 of 455 people found the following review helpful

   
   A Nightmare of a Disaster, July 9, 2010

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   Hope for the Best (California USA) –

   The two 10 month old cats I’ve adopted are seeming savages and think nothing of tearing into me if I dare touch them. This is not the personas they presented when I decided to take them home with me, but that’s another story. The simple fact is this bag does not work and lulled me into a state of security that left me brutalized. In a matter of one minute it was in shreds and so were my hands. It was as if the devil himself at burst forth from Hades, accompanied by all his legions of demons. I was in tears and my wife was screaming as the kitten darted around the living room as if it was in a scene from Alien. The sound that came from her tiny vocal cords is something that no one in my home will ever forget and prays they will never hear again. The bag failed and the pain, blood, and agonizing horror still haunt me. The cats continue to do as they wish and we are helpless. Their claws grow longer everyday and they become more unapproachable. I have had cats all my life and have never seen anything like this pair. Perhaps this product would work with an animal who was more domesticated, such as a pet ocelot or cougar. But if your cat enjoys seeing you in pain and inflicts it at its leisure, without hestitation and with a complete lack of empathy for you as its caretaker, this bag will prove useless.

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