Shes 5 months old and it used to be easy cause she would pass right out after playing and i could do them there with out even wakin her up.. no completly different i pick up the clippers and she flips out?!?!?!I
2006-08-29 14:07:51 · 14 answers · asked by hips03 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
The most important thing is to show her through experience that if she stays still, she gets treats.
First, sit down with her every day with the clippers in your lap or near you. Don't use them yet. This can be your bonding time with her. Have some little treats you can give her. Put the clippers down on the ground and put a little treat right next to them, and even on top of them. After a few days, start gently tapping her feet and nails with the clippers. Keep praising her calm and ignoring her fear or excitement. What you are doing is 1) desensitising her to the clippers, 2) teaching her that if she is calm around the clippers, there will be rewards, and 3) letting her learn from experience that the clippers are not scary and they do not hurt.
When she lies calmly to have her nails tapped with the clippers because she has learnt to expect a treat if she behaves calmly in that situation, it's okay to start clipping her nails. Always give a little treat afterwards. Use lots of calm praise and require her to lie calmly. If she keeps pushing her nose into your hand to stop what you are doing, start again with the clipping. Just do one paw at a time for a while, and give lots of praise and a treat after you're finished.
After a while, she will have learnt through her own experience that they don't hurt, that you require her calm co-operation, and that her co-operation in this situation has rewards. Make darned sure you don't cut them too short and hurt her. It takes a lot to undo that mistake. Put a lot of time and patience into this learning procedure as it is really worth the effort to have a dog that is handler-friendly, it makes her life easier too if she is easy to handle when she is groomed. Don't rush her through the desensitisation process; you want her to have plenty of time to learn for herself that the clippers mean nothing except a little treat when it's all done. If it takes a few weeks for her to learn that they aren't a signal to behave like an idiot, then it's still worth it.
2006-08-29 14:44:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't say if your dog has white or black nails? If the dog has white nails you can actually see the quick running down the inside of the nail and where it stops, so giving you a guide to where to clip to. If the dog has black nails it is more difficult and you need to tread carefully just taking very small amounts at a time until you feel you can take no more off or the dog lets you know you have hit the quick! If the dog walks outside alot or is in a concrete enclosure this will help to keep the nails down naturally and you wont need to clip them!
2016-03-27 00:42:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Play with her feet as much as you can. Every day take the clippers and rub her and her her feet and give her a lot of positive attention, but don't try to cut the nails just yet. Once she gets used to you with the clippers around her, try.
2006-08-29 14:17:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dogs' nails have blood vessels and nerves in them. If you cut the nails too much, you risk hurting the dog.
Instead of cutting her nails, walk her on concrete for about ten minutes a day. The concrete will keep her nails short.
2006-08-30 05:00:00 · answer #4 · answered by dogglebe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the special animal nail cutter from the pet store
It prevents you from cutting down too low
2006-08-29 14:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have somone help you hold her, just don't let her get hurt. The safest bet would be to pay the $8 for the vet to do it.
2006-08-29 14:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by emmadropit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-29 14:16:51 · answer #7 · answered by butterfly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just make sure you dont over cut them or else it will be painful. Nails dont have life so it doesnt matter if you do it yourself.
2006-08-29 14:15:40 · answer #8 · answered by dog_hell_red 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard if you set them on a cold metal table that somehow the cold relaxes them and then you can cut their nails!!!!!!!!!!! Try it and see thats how that cut them at a vet!!!!!!
2006-08-29 14:23:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
have someone hold her while u do it.... if ur unsure of how to hold her take her to a groomer or a vet and they will show u the proper way to restrain the dog
2006-08-29 14:11:33 · answer #10 · answered by TropicalGlitter31103 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋