Does your dog let you trim its nails?

[JacksonsMom]

Anytime I've taken him to the get just his nails clipped - by the vet or whatever, he gets sooo freaked out and expresses his anal glands. It's a HUGE amount of stress for him so I always put it off.

He seems okay when his normal groomer does it, she comes about every 10 weeks and does it as part of his grooming, but I really need to keep up better with them. He's a lot more okay with me doing them and he's not so much "squirmy" as he just decides to move his paw so I can't tell where I'm cutting - then I'm worried I'm going to cut into the quick.

Basically, we're working on it. He'll LET me but it takes me a long time and it's a task. He spazzes when others try to do it. So I think I'm just going to keep working on it and getting better at it myself as to not put him thru the stress. When I'm doing it, it's more of an annoyance... "c'mon, Mom, don't do this to me...." LOL.

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

my guys don't enjoy it--but they know that it's going to happen, so they need to deal with it! I use a dremmel--and ample treats for good behavior! Hounds and their food--well, it works!

 

[smkie]

My dogs, my neighbor's, my Mother's dogs, my brother when his lab was alive, no problem.

 

[*blackrose]

Chloe used to try to kill me when I so much as touched her feet. Now I can do her nails without any problems at all. Cat food is a wonderful thing.

Rose and Cora are both good for their nails in the since that they don't try to bite, they just flail around and won't hold still. I can do theirs without any problem if someone holds them for me.

Cynder is a very good girl for her nails, too. She's better for the grinder with her daddy, but she lets me trim them just fine, too.

 

[Michiyo-Fir]

Nia is absolutely terrified for nail trimming which is why we dremel only.

She doesn't growl or snap or anything with either but she sits there and shakes like a leaf. She's much better with the dremel but she certainly doesn't like it!

 

[Backward_Cinderella]

Yes, we made the dremmel a positive thing when we bought it, and its the best investment we ever made. Regular cutters were never a HORRIBLE thing, but they were a little bit of a struggle.

 

[dog&cat]

I have not tried to do this )

 

[TicTacTug]

Yup. I can clip her nails without a problem - don't even have to hold her still - she'll just lay in my lap. I tried a cheapy dremel knock-off once, she didn't like that one bit.

 

[yoko]

Yoshi will sit or stand with her head down treating me like I'm some sort of torturer but she lets me do it without any sort of struggle and she'll even lift each paw up for me. I don't think it's so much I'm clipping her nails as much as it's me making her stay still.