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12-13-2004, 01:16 PM | #16 |
YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada, mississauga
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| Hi browniesmom622, yes chester is the yorkie on the left. I know he is hard to see but I can not get the picture bigger. Chelsey is on the right. She is a Maltese.. 12 weeks in that picture and day two in our home. They got along right away as you can tell they were just sitting there beside each other so I snaped the picture. Mind you they are not always sitting still anymore.. they have to much fun together. This may be a better picture of them attached. mybirdys2003 for nail cutting all I can say is keep playing with there paws. chelsey hated it when I cut her nails at first. I play with her paws everytime I pick her up.. she still does not like it but she does not strugel anymore. I always clip her nails after her bath it is softer then. I think it is more of the sound of the clipers that bug them then the nail cliping. |
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12-13-2004, 01:29 PM | #17 |
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| Aw they are so cute. My mom had a little Maltese and it was her constant companion. She only weighed 2 # so was a tiny one. We all loved Lucy and when she died last year, it was a great loss, as she was the last thing we had left of mother. I do play with her paws as does my husband. Last week was the first time I toweled her to clip them, and don't think I will do that again. She went bananas! It just shouldn't be like that. So, every morning after her grooming, I pick up her foot and a clippers and just touch them to the nail...That's all....Maybe she will get use to it a little bit by doing that, I don't know. They can be tigers, though, can't they? Pat |
12-13-2004, 02:08 PM | #18 |
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| yeah, I think it is more the noise then anything. Do you use regular clipers for the once for dogs. the one where you can put a small part of the nail inside i find that to be better then the normal clipers. Also when Chester all we can do is judge it as all his nails are black except for one. so I only take of a very small amount to make sure no acidents will happen. Chester and Chelsey were both groomed by there beeders so that might have helped too. I know chelsey does not like the sound of the clipers. Other then that she is really good. Maybe try to give her some treats too while your doing it to distract her. |
12-13-2004, 03:46 PM | #19 |
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| We tried to do Bradley's nails the other day and all we did was pick him up and had the clippers next to him and he went nuts crying. He sounded like we were gonna kill him or something. He is such a BIG baby!!!! I will just have to take him to my friends sister's again to get trimed and all the other stuff, she has 6 yorkies so she knows what she is doing. She was a big help to me when we first got Bradley.
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12-13-2004, 07:50 PM | #20 |
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| Yeah, I take treats and break them up smaller so I can give her more. She can''t be bribed! Dang! I started using the clippers because I couldn't seem to see good enough with the sissors type. Was afraid I would take too much off. Her nails are also all black so can't see the vein. I just take the tips off tooo, I try to do it twice a month. But what a chore! When she had her stitches out after being spayed, the girl came out sweating. I said hard, huh? She said my god! It took three of us to do it. That can't be good either. Just hoping I can get her to let me do it without too much of a fuss. One thing I noticed about Yorkies is, they don't bluff. I think you could probably try to scare the heck out of them and they would just think Yea! You don't scare me! Ha! Pat |
12-14-2004, 05:42 AM | #21 |
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| Oh yeah , you can't fool a yorkie they are way to smart for that. I sware somtimes Chester is just laughing at us. Sometimes he plays dumb.. but we figured out he knows just what we mean. I mean the other day I let both chester and Chelsey out to play in the back. I said come, and inside.. chester came in but not chelsey.. she hates coming back in.. and it was snowing...and me in my PJ's refuse to go out and get her.. I said chester go get chelsey... he ran down the stairs an up the stairs to go get her but she would not follow. So I said darn, went to go get my long coat. when i turned around I saw chester coming throw the back door with chelsey following him.. he had run in to get the stuffy they play with to trick her and it worked. He is so smart. She saw that toy and followed him up the stairs... Oh he got lots of treats... but I tell yeah he does what he wants when he feels like it.. if it had noting to do with chelsey forget it. Any mybirdys2003 do you think maybe he had a bad experience before you got him with the cliping of the nails. Because if you clip to low once they will never let you do it again. They will always rember. Mybe try talking nice in very low voice and stoking his back and then wrap him in a towel so he can not move to much and then take one paw and talk to him again and stoke his paw. Don't clip them that day. Try that for like two to three days and then clip one nail and give a treat. Do it again the next day and clip an other nail and so on. lets cross or fingers. |
12-14-2004, 09:55 AM | #22 |
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| Will try that! I"ve been wondering myself if she didn't have a bad experience. Of course the vet's office doesn't help either when I bring her in. I can hear her yelling when they clip her nails on routine visits. She is a power house of 3#, let me tell you. However, I must say she wouldn't let me brush her teeth, and now we do it every day. Same with brushing the hair etc. It's just mostly the nails. Don't know if I will ever get her to cooperate or not. That was a GREAT STORY about your two dogs! Boy they are smart afn't they? If mine won't come in, I just come in and close the door and she runs right up to be let in. She won't let me out of her sight! Unless ,of course, it's nail clipping time. Ha! Ha! Pat |
12-14-2004, 10:39 AM | #23 |
YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada, mississauga
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| closing the door works for chester the yorkie but not Chelsey . I tried that before. She will just keep runing around even without chester. She does not mind the cold at all or even the snow or rain. She should be a post girl . I can't even bribe her with treats.. only chester can get her inside.. she is something... Well i wish you luck with the nails. Maybe keep trying by yourself... if she is screming at the vet.. she will always be afraid of the vet when you take her in. I guess you have to gain her trust that you won't hurt her. maybe brus her teeth first and then try the nails..One day at a time... I'm sure it will work out. |
12-14-2004, 11:16 AM | #24 |
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| Let's hope! I am touching the clippers to her nail after her teeth every morning. What a struggle! But am hopeful she will get use to it! Please!!!!!! Pat |
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