[diospyros]

My cat has always been a bit prone to getting his claws caught in carpets and fabric, but it's getting worse.  He has access to outside, does lots of fence climbing, and a nice wooden mushroom he likes to sharpen them on.  He is probably about 13 now.  Is it something that gets worse with age?

I tried filing them with an emery board which he took great exception to and kept chasing it and trying to bite it, but he let me clip them with a nail clipper.

Just wondered if anyone else has experienced this?

[Trillium]

We have to use the nail clipper on our terror otherwise the furniture would be in total shreds by now. She hates it but a vet trick we learned is to hold the cat down on the back while all 4 feet are tucked down as usual in a crouch. It's very hard for the cat to escape from this position. Now you can take a paw at a time and clip them.

[madcat]

And yes they do find it harder to keep them down as they get older.  Ours at 17 has to have claws clipped about every other month.  Nail clippers definately work best.

[diospyros]

Thanks - it is clippers for us then.  From experience, you can do something he doesn't like about half a dozen times before he starts thinking about serious avoidance measures, so this should give me a year or so before I resort to judo holds!

[grendel]

we use a decent pair of toenail clippers on our 6 cats, about once a month keeps them in check, front claws tend to need doing more often than back, some squirm a little, if they squirm a lot use teamwork, one person uses the mummy cat hold on the scruff of the back of the neck and they will go docile, and present 4 paws ready for clipping to your accomplice.
-Mummy cat hold - https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110920183804AAa7cH7
Grendel

[Casey76]

Scruffing doesn't work for all cats though   My female cat, Domino, goes completely mental if you scruff her.  She also hates being confined, held, her somach touched...

All worming etc has to be done in a sneak attack with a spot-on.