Trapped...

[roadie gal]

BTW, roadie gal, mine like to knead too, have you trimmed their claws? it's so easy to do and they can knead to their hearts' content and not pierce skin.

Oh, yeah, we cut his nails. He HATES it. It's a 2 person epic. First we put on our flameproof gloves and our body armor. Then we corner him and burrito wrap him in a blanket. One of us holds him while the other pulls out one paw at a time, cuts the nails, and then tucks the paw back in before pulling out the next paw. The whole time he's screeching and wiggling. By the time we're done all 3 of us are in a sweat. We do that about every 2 weeks. He's lovely to hold when his claws are cut, though.

[Veronica]

Yikes, that sounds unpleasant. We lucked out with Cassie and Tucker. They both are quite well behaved during claw clipping.

Tucker just got up from a nap and Cassie is in a mood and stalking him. Better him than the pencils she was just attacking!

Veronica

[marni]

there is a heated cat bed that you can buy from Dr.s foster and Smith that is a deep padded basket with a barely warm heating element that you can't really feel but keeps the temperature at a warm comfortable for dogs and cats with aging and arthritis issues. Our geriatric Cappucinno spent much of his last year, curled in his bed and snoozing comfortably. It eased his pain and movement.

As for clipping their nails..... although both of my cats hiss, moaan and complain about getting their nails clipped, they both know that I am bigger and meaner than they are and the clipping is noisy and a bimonthly event, they do eventually forgive us and when they knead, it is ever so much more comfortable.

[Pedal Wench]

I got stuck for an hour on the sofa once when my Mastiff decided I was more comfy than the plain old cushion. She got me pinned with my arms up on my chest, so I had zero leverage to push her off.