 and just start lying next to her food dish before she eats or before you play with her. So she starts associating the clipper with something positive versus something negative. It's what we call counter-conditioning. The first thing we want to do is desensitize to the sound. Then the next thing we want to do is take what the cat doesn't like, the clipper, and turn it into a positive, something she does like. It's not going to happen overnight. I'm sorry that it happened to her.