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Originally Posted by YorkieRose  I have done both methods...believe me "clamp and twist" is so easy, fast and bloodless. When I cut and stitched, I got bleeding.
Another reason I like the clamp method is the way the hair drapes over the healed end..stitches can leave a scar and the hair does not grow in that area..it may be small, but I notice the drape. The ends of gthe skin are gathered into a pucker. Crushing leaves no scar tissue.
Plus, I can work the clamp between the cartiledge so fast..the tail needs to be pulled gently out and the clamp slips into that groove between the cartiledge..cutting with scissors slices through it, not between it...but that is JMO and the way my pup suffer less. |
agree!!! I learned clamp/twist from my vet employer way back in 1966....never dreamed I would be doing it some day at home, but all those tails I did at that vet office certainly paid off! And the biggest bonus of all is the way the tip heals doing it this way....no "blunt, squared off cut" across the end.