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11-15-2007, 06:47 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maine
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| Trying to cut nails! Help! Any advise on how to cut nails would be very helpful. I tried tonight, but was so unsure of what I was doing, I basically chickened out. Is there a easy way of doing this??? Thanks! Lori |
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11-15-2007, 07:18 PM | #2 |
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| Black nails are difficult to cut. Even vets go too far sometimes and make them bleed. If that happens you can dip the nail in Quik Stop or Corn Starch. To cut a black nail you just cut the end and you will see white. Keep cutting little pieces of white off until you see a black dot in the middle of the white. That is the quick and you don't want to cut it.
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11-15-2007, 07:21 PM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cambridgeshire, England
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| Easy way...that's how I do it...Take'm to the vet as say cut his nails please.
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11-15-2007, 07:30 PM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maine
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| What does your vet charge to do this? |
11-15-2007, 07:32 PM | #5 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cambridgeshire, England
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| I get his nails cut and anal sacks sqeezed and he charges $8.00. Plus I can walk in any time without an appointment for that.
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11-15-2007, 07:35 PM | #6 |
Inactive Account Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| I can't do it.... Waaaayyyy to chicken! I'm so scared I'll cut the quick! Your thread made me wonder how many of us are in the chicken club - I just started a poll to see how many of us are brave enough to do this
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11-16-2007, 03:56 AM | #7 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NJ
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| I'm in the chicken club!!! I find that if I sing to her and act very confident it goes well but the second I second-guess myself I'm done!! Sheba knows she's got mommy wrapped around her little paw so she gives me a hard time and the techs at the vets don't have their hearts invested in her so they just get the job done. Mine charges $15 but if I bring in both dogs they only charge me for one. If you have a really good set of clippers that you're comfortable with and a setting that you both are comfortable with and if you wait till they're "in the mood" it can be done with little stress. My problem is that I can't handle possibly making her bleed!! Sometimes I do one foot a day while I have her on our make-shift grooming stand combing her hair and brushing her teeth. It's less stressful I find if I spread it out. |
11-16-2007, 03:59 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: MA
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| I'm a member of the chicken club. LOL I take him to Petco for 10.00 |
11-16-2007, 06:03 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: london
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| i am in the chicken club as well im just way to scare that i will hurt him, so everytime when i cut his nail, i will cut a little bit once at a time, he is always being really good to me, sit on my lap and let me do his nail..only if it takes too long, he will lose his patients, and start being a little cute devil.. |
11-16-2007, 12:36 PM | #10 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: So Ca
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| I gues I'm not the only one who takes the easy way out. Its better for the furbaby and me He goes to the groomers or petsmart |
11-16-2007, 12:45 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: California
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| Just be careful not to go to far down... When I cut Mekas the first time, I did end up cutting one a little too far down and it bleed for a few minutes. In fear of going to far down again... I just cut the tip of each nail and that's as far as I can go
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11-16-2007, 12:56 PM | #12 |
Mocha's Mommy Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| I bought this nail trimmer from PetSmart http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...earch&keepsr=1 and I love it! It's comfortable to hold, easy to use, and also has a styptic dispenser (in case you cut the quick and it bleeds) and a nail file that is stored in the handle. I would recommend that you get the scissor style and stay away from the guillotine one. It's a lot easier to use and I would imagine less painful for the dog, too. |
11-16-2007, 01:12 PM | #13 |
Living My Yorkie Dream Donating Member | I'm a member of the chicken club. I keep trying every now and then, but when I have the clipper over their nail, as soon as I feel like they are trying to pull their paw away, I freak out like I'm hurting them or something. The crazy thing is, the 4 puppies Lexie had about 5 weeks ago???? Those itty bitty tiny nails, that I can hardly even see..... I have no problem trimming theirs! What is up with that?
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11-18-2007, 09:19 PM | #14 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Maine
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| Anal Sacks??? |
11-27-2007, 03:09 PM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southgate, MI USA
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| trimming nails Yep, I'm in the chicken club. Trimmed my female's nails once, went to far, dog started bleeding and I panicked. Never again, it's too darn hard to see because of the dark color. How much does Petsmart charge just for nails? Usually I just have it done when they get groomed, but I'm trying to save money and not sending them to the groomers as much.
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