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msobey · 02-09-2010, 11:48 AM

I have tried everything. We have tried a pedi paw, a dremmel tool on lowest setting, clippers. He won't even let you hold his paw long enough to clip it if you wanted to and he screams if you do happen to get lucky enough to get close to his paws. Like I said I took him to 3 vets and they all checked him and said there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him or his paws. I thought maybe he had a toenail infection, but they all said no. I don't know what his problem is but I have to get his nails clipped. He has extreme seperation anxiety he hates it when I leave him anywhere I think because we are his 3rd home and he just thinks we are going to leave him, but we never do. That's the only type of anxiety I had ever seen prior to this past year when he won't let us cut the hair on his legs or his paws. I have tried treats, doesn't work. I tried natural calming aids, they don't work. I have tried praising him and talking to him, doesn't work. He will NOT let me or anyone else touch his paws. Even the vet had a hard time looking at them when I took him in- it took quite a while and 3 or us holding him. It's especially bad because his back knees are bad and I don't want to hurt him cutting his toenails. We have 3 yorkies and the others are fine, but he is not. He is fixed too, so it's not like he is aggressive or anything. I don't know what to do and was hoping someone might have experience with anti anxiety meds.

02-09-2010, 11:48 AM	#3
msobey Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Killeen, Texas, USA Posts: 14	I have tried everything. We have tried a pedi paw, a dremmel tool on lowest setting, clippers. He won't even let you hold his paw long enough to clip it if you wanted to and he screams if you do happen to get lucky enough to get close to his paws. Like I said I took him to 3 vets and they all checked him and said there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him or his paws. I thought maybe he had a toenail infection, but they all said no. I don't know what his problem is but I have to get his nails clipped. He has extreme seperation anxiety he hates it when I leave him anywhere I think because we are his 3rd home and he just thinks we are going to leave him, but we never do. That's the only type of anxiety I had ever seen prior to this past year when he won't let us cut the hair on his legs or his paws. I have tried treats, doesn't work. I tried natural calming aids, they don't work. I have tried praising him and talking to him, doesn't work. He will NOT let me or anyone else touch his paws. Even the vet had a hard time looking at them when I took him in- it took quite a while and 3 or us holding him. It's especially bad because his back knees are bad and I don't want to hurt him cutting his toenails. We have 3 yorkies and the others are fine, but he is not. He is fixed too, so it's not like he is aggressive or anything. I don't know what to do and was hoping someone might have experience with anti anxiety meds.