Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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I use an emery board to smooth out nails also since I clip & not dremmel. Just to difficult for me to hold the dremmel with arthritic hands. Using a dremmel is really the best way to trim nails.
Bob, thank you so much for posting that link about Dremeling nails. I didn't realize the Dober Dawn site was down. I have in the past referred people to it since it's so comprehensive and includes photos. So I've saved the link you provided.
I've used a human nail file or emory board to trim up the occasional sharp edge on my dogs' toenails, too. I've also occasionally trimmed my own fingernails while using the Dremel on them.
Connie and Bob, those are both great links. The one Bob posted is the one I used to have which I now have saved in my favourites.
Desensitizing her the Dremel is going really well. She'll relax and almost fall asleep laying beside me with it turned on. I've just barely touched a few nails and she's starting to relax when I do that now too. This may take some time; she's such a big chicken!
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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And the cool thing is, you thought ahead, so it doesn't matter how long it takes.
Thinking ahead about possible procedures and desensitizing/counterconditioning with markers is like a game .... a game where everyone wins big and your vet and her staff bow low when you come in with your dog. LOL
When I got my face-phobic dog to allow an eye exam on his painfully infected eyeball, with the light and the drops (and odorous warm rewards RIGHT THERE where he could smell them as I murmured "and then a treat"), the vet could hardly believe that this was the dog she had nicknamed Snapping Turtle for his reaction to fingers in his eye area. :-)
Good work, Debbie. Hard to think of a better way to spend a little time with the dog every day or even every few hours.
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