If the above tips do not help, you have to cut the nails. It sounds worse than it is. You can use your own nail scissors to cut the nails, but you can also buy a special Rodent Nail Scissors. The advantage of a rodent nail scissors is that it takes into account round nails, our scissors do not. I use baby scissors to cut my hamster’s nails, it has no sharp points. You have to be very careful not to cut the quick, because that is very painful and causes blood! As a rule, you need to cut the lightest tip of the nail.