Yep. One of my cats does this as a part of grooming, apparently. It sounds AWFUL, too! Like a human nibbling their nails....makes me shudder. And she's not messing around, she is really pulling hard! Usually, I'll find her nail sheaths laying around shortly after this process. Her behavior isn't caused by not having scratching posts around. I've got the best! Cat's are just crazy, in a wonderful kind of way...😍
Then there's no need, they basically do it themselves. My cat pulls like the outside layer of his toe nails out (he's declawed up front), and leaves like the outside layer/casing of it randomly in carpets, in my bed, it's pretty fascinating how he does that, he clearly isn't putting out the whole thing because what I find are hollow pieces, like the sheath for a sword.
SunflowerMaze yeah. We didn’t know that was what they did. I was like 9 at the time and my mom didn’t know they cut the fingers off she just thought they pull the nail out.
