Cutting toenails - Page 2

I dremels my dogs nails... in fact I just did both Xena and Ice this evening. Ice is always very good for it. I started getting him use to the dremel as soon as I got him. It was dremel one nail and then reward. Now I just do them and at the end he gets a "good boy" and several pats...once in a while I will give a treat when I am done. I just have Ice STAND and do his nails. He lets me do each foot without a struggle at all.

Xena on the other hand has ALWAYS been a PAIN IN THE ASS to do her nails. I use to trim them and then several years ago I started using the dremel. She is better with the dremel, but is still not an easy dog to do her nails. She usually struggles and tried to pull her feet away. I have quicked her a few times because she is herky jerky all the time. I actually have to lay Xena down and hold the leg I am doing....

I by FAR like the dremel better than the nail clippers.. The dogs nails do not click on my hardwood floors. I usually dremel them every 3-4 weeks.

I've used a dremel for many years. My GSD would never growl at me or try to bite me no matter what I did to her, so that's never been an issue. Her nails grow fast,  I dremel her every 10 days, 2 weeks. She gets impatient some times.

I like the scissor type clipper because i've seen too many mistakes made with the old style golitune type nail cutters. Plus when they get dull they will bend the nail rather then cut it, dogs hate that. And they often pinch your palm when you close the cutter. Just never like them and not good for real thick nails lkke dans and dobies.

I train my pups from as soon as i get them to acept the nail clip. They don't have to like it just hold still so i cna get teh job done.

I've clipped thousands of dog's nails and the only dog i could not cut nails on was a wimie. She never tried to bit but even 4 of us could not hold her still to clip her nails. so fater a few rounds of dog wrestling and losing. We recomended a sedate and show clip. After then she came in 3 times a year for her show clip. Sedation was muck kinder then fighting a freaked out dog.

Fry

Sorry Fry -  can't imagine a Show Clip on a Weimeraner !

Neat solution, though.  Not such an obsession with coats & clipping

here in the UK, at least on dogs that don't have huge coats to start with.

I understand what you say about guillotine clippers, but most

of the decent types I've used I never had problems with - must

be one of those things where some brands are better than others ?

The biggest dogs / theoretically hardest nails I ever had to trim

(no experience re Danes or Dobes in this regard) were those belonging

to two Leonberger sisters.  Clippers didn't give me a problem then, either.

http://thek9guide.com/trimming-dogs-nails/   The first pic in this articale shows a show clipped length.

When i say "Show Clipping" i mean cutting the nail so far back that i that i an well into the quicks. Which when i did them i held the toe in such a way that they didn't bleed and i used Quick Stop to pack the nails so they didn't bleed after i let go. Never lost any blood the way i did it. But it could only be done under sedation. Any bad or aggressive dog that was under got a short or show clip on the nails. Has nothing to do with tocuhing the dog's coat.

But i would never ever cut nails that short on a awake dog. I use ot have to show clip one of my own American Bulldogs because even though i cut her nails and grinded them weekly they grew faster then i could cut them back. And the quicks grew out too. So i would show cut them to force them back for several months.

Ah !  TY for the explanation.  My apologies, its obviously one of

those trans-Atlantic translation errors.

The one pita that I have gets sat on lol, she will growl and show teeth, but the more its done, the more accepting she is... this is after all positive reinforcement methods have failed. After 3 years, we generally can let her stand up and clip like fry showed. All of my others have been taught to lay on their side with their paws up... also use the dremel after clipping. I can clip all 5 dogs in about 10 min.

Not a problem Hundmutter, because if i could have found enough coat to clip on a wemie it would ahve been one of those long coated types. :p

But the nail! her nails were like cutting concrete anchors in half. Sometimes they hurt my hand!

Thank you to all;  I have been cutting my boys nails since he came (13 weeks) without incident;  NOW all of a sudden since he is a big 10 months he has chosen to act like an ass even though I do think his foot or leg was sore;  actually snapped or really I say should put his teeth on me and has just become more mouthy than I like.  Well since he has acted like a bad boy he gets the muzzle now as hub's is not fond of holding him on his lap with his face near the boy's mouth, soooooooo needless to say neither of us are  too happy.  I do feel he has a little pano, nothing serious but it is there according to the vet so will proceed with caution.  I have tried all sorts of nail clippers, use the orange handled ones first then dremel or smooth off once I clip the ends of those miserable BLACK nails.  Have usually only done white nails for 40 years.  So  think I will buy another dremel as mine did wear out (cordless) after about 10 years or so now rely on power oster grinder and orange handled sissor type nail clippers. 

The mouthyness does bother me though and hopefully his trainers will solve this action post haste.  Will be seeing them on Sat. AM for an early morning training session then a little reminder or two.  Will post results.  Did nails last night along with grinder for the first time and all went OK.  Also with only 2nd time in muzzle.    Nan

i start with toenail clippers when they are very young - around 4 weeks.
just clip the tips while someone else is giving them treats. they don't even notice.
at 8 weeks, when its time for their new families, they've had their nails done 3 or 4 times so its old hat.
IMO, breeders responsibility to prepare puppies for real life after the leave.

as they grow older, i switch to clipping scissors,  they seem to think clipping time is treat time, as long as someone is feeding treats to them they are happy to not notice what's going on with their feet. by the time they're 4-5 months old, the treats are much less frequent.