Thanks you all for the great advice. I'm definately going to approach this from the massage point now. She is quite comfortable with me touching her ears/teeth/eyes/body etc, but the minute I get to her knees, she pulls away. For the time being, I'm going to back off completely and ditch all attempts to clip her nails, untill she is 100% comfortable with me touching her feet.
As it is, she is wary of me, and would rather sit with her Dad, as "Mom's the one who wants to do horrible things to my feet" Even when I get to the stage that I can touch her feet, I'm only going to do 1-2 a night, so that she does not freak out, and then lavish her with PRAISE and TREATS.
Just one last question.......while I'm decensitising her to the touching, do I have the clippers near by so she can get comfortable with having them around, or do I remove them so as to not make her anxious????
I'll keep you all posted on our progress.
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