The glue is a good idea, and thanks for bringing up the risks everyone too. I think as far as the licking she doesn't lick her back feet much if at all, she does lick her front feet all the time. Also its on the underside of the nail I would think that if she is going to lick her feet it would mainly be the top or maybe even her pad area not necessarily the nail. Also she has tons of hair on her feet so I don't even think she could get to the nail really. But it is definately a good point. I think I'm going to watch her, it hasn't gotten stuck today, and if it continues to get stuck maybe try the glue idea, I'm going to try to avoid it just in case. I can see the mess already, remember I mentioned about all the hair on her feet, I don't trim the hair there. I'm thinking I could try using a scrunchie, definately not tight, to hold up some of the hair just until the glue dried a bit.
I tried filing it a little bit, but really couldn't get to it. I'm going to keep trying that and just picking at it trying to get it to break. If worse comes to worse I'll try to glue and let you know how it goes.
The split starts at the end of the nail that is connected to the paw then goes towards then nail end. And its starts fairly close to the paw so I don't think I can cut the nail that far up.
Thanks everyone for your ideas I'll let you know if I end up having to try something other than just waiting it out.
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