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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Overgrown Embedded Roller Blade Claws in Cats, Felines by Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates

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Cats claws or nails grow continually during their lives just like our finger and toe nails. We trim our nails with nail clippers or files. Cats in the wild will scratch on trees to keep their nails in check. Indoor cats will scratch on rugs, cat trees or the sofa to keep their nails in check.

Our nails grow continually in a single layered nail. Cats nails grow differently with multiple layers and sheaths. The outer layer or sheath is generally shed when they scratch on cat trees. You will find nail sheaths stuck on the cat tree or around the base. They look like the below photo, like splintered bits of nails or may even look like an entire nail.

If cats are older, sick, disabled, have arthritis, they sometimes stop using cat trees. The sheaths are not removed and build it. As the nail continues to grow the full nail will curl around and embed into the paws or legs if it's a dew claw. Dew claws are the most likely to be overgrown. The front claws grow faster and longer than the rear claws. Front claws are more likely to be overgrown. Below are photos of embedded claws, nails. First three are front dew claws. All of these cats were very old and not scratching on anything because of their age.

If your cat has embedded claws, see a veterinarian. If you are a veterinarian or vet technician, you can trim them yourself. First time I saw this I took the cat to the vet. He forgot to trim them. I realized this when I got him and he told me to trim them myself which I did. Still, we are not veterinarians and are not giving veterinary advice. If your cat was declawed and claws regrew under the skin and maybe poke out a little, see a cat declaw repair, claw specialist veterinarian only. Never try to trim or remove those as they must be removed by surgery after xrays. It's not just the claw growing under there but the leftover amputated bone, nail and nail cells. There's generally also lots of infection and scar tissue which must also be removed. Contact thepawproject.com for declaw repair specialists.

Make sure you never trim into the quick which is the pink area which is the blood supply to the nail bed. It will cause pain, bleeding and your cat will never allow you to trim their nails again. We trim an area away from the nail bed and away from the quick closer to where the natural nail tip end would be. We also trim within 1/8 " from where the nail is entering the paw pad or skin. See photo below. Remove that little section which generally falls off. Then we slowly remove the embedded section gently in a curved motion similar to the opposite direction in which it grew into the paw. If it doesn't come out super easy, if it bleeds, if it hurts the cat, let an experienced cat claw vet do it. It should just fall out.

After you've removed the embedded part go back and trim the nail to the proper length making sure you don't clip the quick. If you can't see the quick because of sheath overgrowth making it too thick, you can use tweezers to gently pull off the dead outer layers of nail sheaths. Below are photos of some removed embedded and overgrown nails. The top ones were more deeply embedded. They just fell out of the paw when the first section, arc was removed. The force of the nail is what's keeping them in the skin. They did not bleed at all.

In order to prevent embedded claws trim your older cats nails once a month or so. At least check the nails once a month. Always provide cat scratching trees, mats, toys.

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Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate Services has been in real estate since 1983, over 35 years. She is licensed by the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Mary Cummins was an agent and broker licensed with the California Department of Real Estate selling residential income, commercial buildings, raw land and homes for Merrill Lynch Realty in Beverly Hills and Westside Properties in Los Angeles before concentrating on appraisals. Mary Cummins currently provides real estate appraisals, expert witness testimony, historical research, legal real estate research for mortgage brokers, banks, lawyers, factors, insurance companies, financial consultants and private individuals. Mary Cummins was born and raised in Southern California. Cummins attended Beverly Hills Good Shepherd Catholic School and Beverly Hills High School. Besides being on the Dean's list, Mary Cummins was a top ten national swimmer and competed on the men's water polo team. Mary Cummins began college at the age of 15 attending the University of Southern California on scholarship, majoring in Psychology/Sociology. http://www.animaladvocates.us http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

"Beverly Hills Vet" television series by Animal Planet on Discovery - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates

"Beverly Hills Vet" was a television series made by Animal Planet on the Discovery channel. This episode "Julianne's Choice" was from 2003. Mary Cummins played herself. The star and host is Katrina Warren a veterinarian from Australia. In this jepisode a kind man finds an orphaned baby squirrel, brings it to Mary Cummins who raises it for release back into the wild.

Video will be posted later. Here are some stills.

Mary Cummins Animal Planet Katrina Warren Animal Planet Discovery Channel television series wildlife rehabilitation squirrel rescue Los Angeles, California

* The video is not 100% what actually happened. Some scenes had to be rearranged due to time constraints. Some were reenacted for the same reasons. Sound effects were added in some of the edited parts.

LOS ANGELES, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In Animal Planet's new series BEVERLY
HILLS VET, Katrina Warren, the dynamic Australian veterinarian and expert in
animal behavior, lands in Beverly Hills to take viewers on a whirlwind trip
around Los Angeles where she prescribes cures for animals with unimaginable
oddities and meets their equally eccentric families. The biggest challenge
Katrina faces is figuring out if some pets' real problem is the one they can't
shake ... their owners. Viewers learn how Katrina Warren diagnoses these
animal anomalies and if their commanders will obey when she comes to the L.A.
area's rescue in the world premiere of BEVERLY HILLS VET on September 2, 2003
from 8-9 p.m. (ET).

Throughout the series' episodes, Katrina analyzes a parrot that hates his
new owner so much that he uses four-letter words to tell her so and an alpaca
that can't seem to stop banging his head on the wall. She treats "Bitey," the
snake, who lives up to his name and the pampering couple living with "Ribbet,"
the 200-pound pig that needs to visit "Little Orphan Hammies," his favorite
pig camp more often to help him leave is brutish home behavior behind.
Katrina even uses hidden video to spy on a schnauzer that raids the
refrigerator when no ones around to catch him in the act!

Soon after her arrival in California, Katrina is not only faced with the
difficulties of moving to a new place with quite different and unusual people,
but is also confronted with correcting the weird behaviors of exotic pets
she's never seen in her Australian homeland. Katrina is so determined to
offer owners every possible solution to their pet's problems that she ends up
making many human friends along the way. She finds specialists across Los
Angeles, who lend their advice to help her make the best diagnosis. For
example, she meets Ian, the herpetologist who really knows his way around a
snake; and Susie, the pig expert from "Little Orphan Hammies" -- where pigs
without a home find refuge. All in all, Katrina's just the woman to make
people and their pets happier together.

BEVERLY HILLS VET is produced for Animal Planet by Fox TV Studios in
association with Painless Productions. For Fox TV Studios, David Martin is
executive producer. For Painless Productions, Jim Casey and Joe Carolei are
executive producers, Katrina Warren is co-executive producer and Jacqueline
Bender is supervising producer. For Animal Planet, Jeanie Vink is executive
producer and Kelly Lueschow is associate producer.

Animal Planet, available in more than 81 million homes nationwide, is the
only television network dedicated exclusively to the connection between humans
and animals. The network's original programming brings together people of all
ages by tapping into a fundamental fascination with animals and providing an
entertaining mix of programming including original movies, adventure series,
sports, drama and sitcoms. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery
Communications, Inc., operates and manages the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal
Planet, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids, and a
family of newer, targeted channels. The unit also distributes BBC America.
Visit Animal Planet on the Web by going to www.discovery.com and clicking on
Animal Planet.

SOURCE Animal Planet

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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