So many nails!

[Reenie]

It was one of the recently posted memes which made me think of this. Every few weeks I have to trim 70 guinea pig nails - and that's just 5 piggies. I was quite surprised when I worked it out. How many nails do you have to trim? (This is not a maths test lol)

 

[Sophie B]

28?

 

[Lady Kelly]

56 and that's not including the doggos ones... Let's wait on Wiebke doing the maths... Hope she has a calculator to hand

 

[Swissgreys]

Only 42 here, but I am requesting that Ruby's count double becasue she is a biter

 

[Flutterby]

With mine and fosters we have here at the moment it's 196 nails

 

[piggieminder]

Good job it's not a maths test, I just failed first go!

120!

 

[Flutterby]

OMG so would I! Mine would be 392!

28 x 6 back nails
28 x 8 front nails
= 392 nails!

 

[GPTV]

56 and that's not including the doggos ones... Let's wait on Wiebke doing the maths... Hope she has a calculator to hand

Snap! I'm 56 nails too plus dog, but hers are much easier even though they're black - she just lies there & gives me dirty looks between sleeping. She doesn't leap around pushing, then pulling her feet in the Jaws of the nail clippers!

Wiebke, Eileen & Teddymouse will be needing calculators for sure!
So many piggy toes!

OMG so would I! Mine would be 392!

28 x 6 back nails
28 x 8 front nails
= 392 nails!

Now that's a lot of nails!

 

[Siikibam]

56 here, excluding the 60 human ones I have to contend with (my son cuts his own fingernails)

 

[piggieminder]

I just got that completely wrong - think I should go back to bed! Worked on piggies having 5 toes on each foot!
So ...... 84!
It just feels like 5 toes per foot when you're trying to cut them on wiggly pigs.

 

[Flutterby]

 

[piggieminder]

I've had piggies on and off for 50 years, how could I get that one wrong? Didn't realise my senility had got quite that far advanced!

 

[PigglePuggle]

112 piggy toes at my house but I get the vet nurse to do the nail trims

 

[Wiebke]

I am currently just one piggy behind @Flutterby , so that is 378 nails for me.
I don't do them weekly, though, and never do them all in one day.

 

[Flutterby]

I'm the same! I check whoever is on a full cage clean for that day (I do full cleans on a rota) and if they need doing I do them

 

[Wiebke]

I'm the same! I check whoever is on a full cage clean for that day (I do full cleans on a rota) and if they need doing I do them

Same here!

 

[DMS260820]

28 nails, boar all black nails, sow some black some white. And the boar with the black nails is typically the squirmer

 

[Gem789]

28 nails, boar all black nails, sow some black some white. And the boar with the black nails is typically the squirmer

That's why I go to the vets to have them done lol

 

[DMS260820]

That's why I go to the vets to have them done lol

I might start taking them to the vet to get it done. I don't really know how much to take off

 

[Gem789]

I might start taking them to the vet to get it done. I don't really know how much to take off

I'm the same and I can't stand it if they move their foot suddenly or make a loud squeak lol.

 

[DMS260820]

I'm the same and I can't stand it if they move their foot suddenly or make a loud squeak lol.

Yea it's horrible, I had to do a past gerbil of mines claws, she got old and stopped digging as much, so got long nails, it took me forever lol

 

[Abirose]

28 nails, i take my girls to the vet nurse for nail trims. Rosie's are all black and not brave enough to trim Abigail's, she's a feisty girl!

 

[DMS260820]

28 nails, i take my girls to the vet nurse for nail trims. Rosie's are all black and not brave enough to trim Abigail's, she's a feisty girl!

Its always the sows that are feisty. Boars are layed back

 

[piggieminder]

Its always the sows that are feisty. Boars are layed back

Shame you don't live closer I'd introduce you to Red!

 

[Sonnet]

Its always the sows that are feisty. Boars are layed back

Spud would like to deny that he’s laid back. Have to put up with him jumping around and flicking poo at me!

 

[DMS260820]

Spud would like to deny that he’s laid back. Have to put up with him jumping around and flicking poo at me!

Lol, ok, all of my boars ( 3) have been layed back.

 

[VickiA]

With the aid of my trusty calculator I make it 112. It takes 2 of us. Mr A holds them while I do the clipping.

 

[DMS260820]

With the aid of my trusty calculator I make it 112. It takes 2 of us. Mr A holds them while I do the clipping.

You wouldn't think 8 pigs would equal that many nails. It's surprising

 

[Rivervixen]

28 nails! Two wriggly boars x

 

[Betsy]

56 nails here. Dennis just lays on his back on my lap and just lets me cut them. The others aren't so easy!