I use a battery operated one I got at Wallyworld for about $20. I started with my dremel I use for woodworking but was concerned that the RPM's were way too high for "foot work".

You might want to try this one. No cords to drag out OR get tangled in. It comes with a wall charger and I just plug in the battery after each use.

Hope it helps!!

Happy to have a Toe Toe Boot Camp however! (We'll call it "FooFoo Camp! LOL!)

A local training facility is offering classes in just this. $80 for 6 weeks. I figure for that cash I can get his nails done by a pro 8 times.

We tried a battery operated one and it didn't seem to have enough power. My husband already had the dremel so we started using it. My only concern with the high RPM's is that it gets too hot which makes JD even jumpier. And as always, Mr. "I know what I'm doing" doesn't understand my concern.

I love my husband, really I do :-) I'll just start giving him advice about racing his motorcycles and he'll probably back off.

Foo-Foo camp - here we come!!!

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Have you thougth about taking clean up bags with you instead of flags? You are already out there anyway...

I was taking them with me initially, but Doc had some very soft poop when I got him. Now that we have his stool under control, I could probably go back to that.

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Must be a universal dog language - JD runs and hides behind the bed.

Not around here!! I use a dremel and when I go to the drawer to get that out, I have two dogs running to their beds because that is were we do "toes". Trained this with marker training and they still get treats after each toe. The one dog not getting dremeled also gets a treat every few toes to reward that one for staying on it's bed.

One of the few things I've nailed... training the dremel and doing toe-toes!

I need to do that with Sutter. We're just working on letting me handle his feet right now. We haven't worked up to introducing clippers.

In HS, I used to crittersit a GSD whose command to eliminate was "go play." I couldn't use that around here without confusing the toddler.

Not really a command, but whenever we look at the dogs and ask "what? what is it??" in a normal conversational tone they go absolutely nuts, wooing and groaning and dancing.

Anytime anyone says Dammit! all cats and dogs scatter to the winds LOL.

I am pretty lucky in that my dogs are all relatively good when it comes to nail trimming. I shot this video a couple years ago when Frost was a year old because a bunch of ACD people who have siblings of Frost were disbelieving of how good she is at trimming :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtFT5AbH24

Funny story on dogs disappearing - when I moved into my old house about 9 years ago I had 3 ACDs at the time - Poe and Tessa who were roughly 3 and 4 and Finn who was around 4 months old. I ended up buying a vacuum cleaner one day and got out the tool box to put the vacuum together in my living room.

As soon as I sat down on the living room floor it occurred to me that both Poe and Tessa vanished and only Finn was still in the room. I then realized that Poe and Tessa probably associated cursing and overall bad attitude with the my getting out the toolbox and only Finn as the puppy had not fully experienced the "Ingrid on the fix it warpath" like the other two had :-P I had a good chuckle at that point on how observant my dogs are to when I am likely to have a hissy fit ;-)

Re: funny commands - Frost has long associated "get the bad guy" with Schutzhund. I now use that command as a stress reliever before we enter the obedience ring. I have her in heel position and I ask her - "Are we going to get the bad guy?" and she happily gives a couple barks. Once she does that we enter the ring :-)

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I am pretty lucky in that my dogs are all relatively good when it comes to nail trimming. I shot this video a couple years ago when Frost was a year old because a bunch of ACD people who have siblings of Frost were disbelieving of how good she is at trimming :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtFT5AbH24

Funny story on dogs disappearing - when I moved into my old house about 9 years ago I had 3 ACDs at the time - Poe and Tessa who were roughly 3 and 4 and Finn who was around 4 months old. I ended up buying a vacuum cleaner one day and got out the tool box to put the vacuum together in my living room.

As soon as I sat down on the living room floor it occurred to me that both Poe and Tessa vanished and only Finn was still in the room. I then realized that Poe and Tessa probably associated cursing and overall bad attitude with the my getting out the toolbox and only Finn as the puppy had not fully experienced the "Ingrid on the fix it warpath" like the other two had :-P I had a good chuckle at that point on how observant my dogs are to when I am likely to have a hissy fit ;-)

All I have to do is bring out the vaccuum and JD is nowhere to be found! If it's turned off I can get him to touch it and he gets wild praise, but plug it in and he's a goner!

I use Butt instead of Sit. My attack command uses S's. lol