BYC Café

[Sally PB]

Little dogs are WAY harder to do than big dogs.

I'm sure!

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning and thanks for the coffee!
I am off to take DAF to a few appts and
I can get some food shopping done, so it works out.
Have fun today, Cafe!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey morning Cafe.
I had my coffee, Moose woke me at 7.

 

[SkyAJK]

@SkyAJK I also use a Dremel like @pennyJo1960 does. But Piper is the only dog I trained to tolerate it as a puppy. All the Dobies were trained as adults.
One thing I do differently is that I start by doing a quick shaping of the bottom of the nail and only remove a small amount of length and move on to the next nail on the same foot. Then I go back over each nail and tap down the length a little at a time and move on. I make about 3 passes over the nails on each foot before moving on to the next foot. The Dremel is not only loud and vibrates through the foot (they need to learn that although scary and uncomfortable at first, it doesn't hurt and they will not be allowed to get up until it is over) but it gets hot.

If you leave it buzzing down on a nail too long it is going to make it hot AND you are getting ever closer to the sensitive quick. Removing smaller amounts of nail on each toe avoids the heat build up. The last thing you want to do when first training them is to quick them.

One last thing: they get a special treat after getting their nails done. This very special treat is ONLY for after getting nails done and nothing else. My girls know this.

I will do nails, ears and teeth all in one session on both girls. Then they get a dumpster load of treats.

Thank you.
We used the dog nail clippers yesterday and it took 2 people to cut 1 nail and he was screaming so loud as if he was being cull, the next door neighbour came out.....We gave him a bit of treat, the other dog was hiding under the car so he escaped it.

I will use the Dremel today! Those nails are so long.

When we had Dobes, we started them as pups with the Dremel for nail trimming. Another thing that helped was for me to hold the nail firmly with fingers on my left hand, and do the Dremeling with my right. This helped to dampen the vibration.

We got both dogs as adult so it is a bit harder.

Let do with a good treat hanging in front of them, hopefully they more focus on treat and less screaming.

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning,
Coffee is ready and it is 1st of April over here 7:50am. April fool day...I have not any thought on April fool practical joke...but I will watch out for having that on me.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Just takes a bit of calm talking to teach a adult to have a dremel used Hold the toe your doing as it wont worry them.