So I was cuddling with my old kitty, Amadeus today and I noticed his foot looked funny. I took a closer look and one of his nails had grown all the way around and partially in to the pad! I feel to bad I hadn't even noticed! It was like it hadn't shed like normal. He wasn't limping or licking it or anything. So I carefully clipped the nail away (with much grumpiness and hissing lemme tell ya!) and cleaned up the pad with some peroxide and put some panalog ointment on it. It looks better already and he's leaving it alone.

I've never had this happen before, has anyone else? Is it more common with older kitties? Amadeus is 13 and I'll be keeping an eye out to make sure it doesn't happen again. I felt so neglectful!