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08-05-2006, 10:13 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana
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| I Did The Nails Myself!!! I finally can trim Joey and Izzie's nails. My other two will let me no problem, but those two were awful. Last time I took them to the Vet and the Vet Tech did them....for $10.00 a piece. I thought I'd better get my "you know what" together cause that was just too much for me. So, I took the advice of someone here on YT and wrapped them in a towel. They were starting to look like King Tut I wrapped them so tight, but they are done and I DID IT!!!
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08-05-2006, 10:15 AM | #2 |
Luv my Angel, too! Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA
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| Good for you!!!! I've tried the towel thing and it so doesn't work for us!!! What has been helpful however, was someone's suggestion to use a dremmel tool. I don't have a dremmel, but I have a plug-in nail buffer, finisher kit that I've had forever. I pulled that out, put in one of the filing attachments and voila!!! I'll definitely need to do this more often than trimming, but at least she holds fairly still and doesn't freak out!!
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08-05-2006, 10:16 AM | #3 |
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| OK, so tell me more about how I should be wrapping them....I try to do it tight, but they always wiggle loose!!!
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08-05-2006, 10:18 AM | #4 |
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| That is definitely an accomplishment! I've given up myself,
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08-05-2006, 10:24 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana
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| Okay everyone, here is what I did (I am so proud of myself ). I give my dogs a bath every other weekend (they don't go outside). So I trimmed them, gave them their bath and wrapped the towel around them. They squirmed out of it so I made them my own personal little mummy and wrapped them tight and held them on my lap. Since they were wrapped tight in a towel and their nails were soft from the bath, it took no time at all. I was so shocked!!! I also think it didn't bother them as much because I use to cut their nails before their bath, but after the bath the nails are softer and snip snip I was done!!!! Also, after trimming the nails, since the towel was wrapped so tight, they were only damp from their bath and the drying took less time too!!
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08-05-2006, 11:03 AM | #6 |
BANNED FOR NOT MAILING PRODUCTS PURCHASED | good for you Janet!!! your better then me, there is no way I can do it, I get so shakey and scared thinking I'm going to trim them to close and make them jump and bleed. It only cost me $4 to have her nails trimmed, so thats not to bad. But I was also told to put a blind fold on them and this way they cant see what your doing and they worry more on getting the blind fold off them what your doing to there nails. who knows, maybe one day i will get brave and try it lol |
08-05-2006, 12:51 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Illinois
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| I have never done it before either. I always have em done at the groomers when they get their haircuts. But it's been awhile since Louie has been to the groomers due to getting such a short cut the last time. And Elle (puppy)doesnt need to go yet. So I figured I'd better start getting used to doing them myself. I waited til Elle got really tired. I wore her out by playing hard. She barely even moved when I clipped em. I even took the time and clipped excess fur on her ears. Then I clipped Louie's nails. He will let me do it after I have to tell him No a couple of times for moving on me.
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