going to kill him or cut off his toes and we could just (gently) grab a paw and start snipping.
my parent's grumpy old lady cat was a little bit more challenging, but only because i had to take her to a separate room - she (at first) needed the burrito method and made a lot of terrible noises, which upset my dad (probably more than the cat). it took a few months of burrito-ing her, but she also came around and got much easier to trim after we'd done it a few times. 