Re: Trimming toenails

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

Here's one I found VERY helpful with toenails. We did them initially in the
kitchen and would put a glob of peanut butter on the stove door or the
fridge door and while the hooligans were scarfing up I was hysterically
cutting nails! lol! quite the act but it did work for an amazing amount of
time.

Debs

ps... I ONLY changed to a grinder when we covered the bedroom walls with
Rosie's blood (it was spraying like a faucet) after one especially trying
wrestling match with Boyd, me, and this little dog and a pair of nail
clippers. I never did find that bottle of Kwik Stop, lol. God knows where it
got kicked to. She couldn't have weighed 30lbs but it was like working on a
greased hysterical pig!

I was at Sears the next morning and had a grinder. Not a problem since then
although it took another year before I could approach her with clippers
again. Now I will occasionally use them on her dew claws just to keep her
used to seeing the clippers appear.

While I'm thinking about nails and the wrestling matches we went through,
the neatest trick my first breeder EVER told me was to pull the couch
cushions out about 7", flip Rosie over and stuff her into the couch crack
and clip away. Damned if that wasn't the neatest trick and it worked really
well until she got too big to handle, lololol!



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>From: Linda Shipman <Linda.Shipman@chezor.alaska.com>
>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>Subject: Re: Trimming toenails
>Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2000, 11:11 AM
>

> At 10:24 AM 6/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>Linda,  I suppose you would still have to have that paw very still so as not
>>to cut into the quick.
>
> With a dremel, you make a pass over the toenail instead of staying in one
spot.
> There's not as much danger this way of cutting into the quick.
>
> And yes, our girls do move their feet around occasionally, especially
> the back paws, but we're patient and quick at catching the moments
> when they're still <s>
>
> We can have both girls on and off the grooming table in less than two
> minutes when there is one of us giving them treats as they're worked
> on! :-)
>
> Also...you all may already know, but I haven't heard it mentioned yet.....the
> quick grows out with the length of the nail.  If the toenails are very
> long, the
> quick will be out there almost as long.  You want to take small amounts of
> nail off each time.  As you do, the quick will recede back from the end of
> the toenail.  So if you miss doing the toenails and have to catch up, just
> do a little bit every few days, allowing the quick to pull back deeper into
> the toenail.
>
> Probably more than you ever wanted to hear about toenails :-)
>
> Linda
>
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