Trim your dog's nails in a safe and effective way
Trimming your dog's nails can be worrying in the first few times, and when you know how to do it properly, you can trim your dog's nails yourself at home in a safe and effective way. We'll look at the pruning tools you need to complete this task, along with the best ways to trim your dog's nails.
Dog Trimming Tools :
There are several types of trimming tools you can use, you have to choose the type you are comfortable with, and most importantly the type you can hold well.
1- Trimming nails tools that have the shape of scissors:
When pressing this pruning tool, Its two sides meet for cutting, such as scissors movement. This tool can be placed on any of the nails easily, even in narrow areas.
2- Guillotine-shaped nail cutter:
This tool is combined together when pressed, but instead of cutting like a scissors, it cuts like a guillotine, placing the dog's nail in a round shape and when pressed, the blade moves through the nail like a guillotine. Using this tool may be difficult if your dog moves his foot frequently.
3- The nail clipper that finds the blood vessel inside the dog's nail:
There is a new product on the market designed specifically for pet owners. It is supposed to be able to find the blood vessel inside the dog's nail, allowing you to know where you can cut.
4- Palettes:
This tool is similar to polishing tools. They quickly polish the nail tip. Also, the nail is polished if you hit the blood vessel, but it is easy to trim the nail too much with this tool. Also, if you slide this tool from the nail, it is possible to injure your dog's skin.
Note: This tool is best used by an experienced person in cutting dog's nails.
5- Powder and coagulant:
Used to avoid cutting the blood vessel inside the dog's nails. If you cut it, your dog will suffer from pain and bleeding. Keep the powder or coagulant near you to stop bleeding immediately. Clotisol or tea powder is considered one of the best options.
How to trim your dog's nails :
The dog's nails are bent down, and if not trimmed, they will continue to grow down toward the dog's feet from the bottom. The dog's nails are worn naturally as they move. Where the nails of dogs spend more time digging or walking on cement nail worn faster than than dogs on the carpet.
Ideally, dogs' nails should never touch the ground. It is fine if the top of the nails barely touch the ground, but must be trimmed, as long nails hurt the dog's feet and it is easy to hang something and take off.
Getting started early is the best way to trim nails. You should start grooming your nails weekly once you bring them home. Where he will get used to this process and you will not be upset - and you should not be disturbed.
Even with adult or adopted dogs, you should start the procedure as described above and take care of the nails weekly.
Here are some tips during trimming your dog's nails:
- You want your dog to be comfortable while trimming and it may be appropriate to trim one nail or two each time, depending on how comfortable your dog is.
- For large dogs, you need two people for this process: the first to trim the nails, and the second to catch the dog and calm it.
- Keep some broken food such as cheese cubes, sausage pieces or the like nearby. You must have enough to give it when you trim each nail .
- Some dogs respond better when they are on the table. Make sure it is safe and that your dog can not jump off or get hurt. A person should stand next to the dog or in front of it and fix it as you trim the nails in the opposite direction. It is usually easy to fix small sized dogs in your lap.
- Hold the dog's foot in your hand so that you can see the nails, and you should hold the nail clipper with the other hand.
- Dogs have a blood vessel inside each of theirnails, and this vessel bleeds if you cut it. This vessel usually exists immediately before the beginning of the bend in the nail, but this is not the case with all dogs. You can see the vessel in dogs with white nails, and you should cut them a short distance from the end of the blood vessel . For dogs whose nails are black, you have to predict and estimate where is it located, but generally, you should cut a small amount of the curved part of the nail. If you do this periodically, the length of the part you will cut is about one inch or less, and it can be a quarter of an inch long if the period between nail trim is 2-3 weeks. You can trim the nail itself in several batches to make sure you do not cut the vein.
Place the nail trimming blade around the tip of the nail where you want to cut, and then press the handle of the pruner to trim the nail.
- Once the nail is trimmed, say "yes" and give your dog a piece of food that you prepared immediately beforehand, and repeat this process when you trim each of his fingernails. Your dog will start by linking the trimming process to the tasty food.
- Do not panic if you cut the vein, bring the powder or colicol put some of it on the end and press a little to stop the bleeding.
Tips to remember during trimming dogs nail :
- It is best to trim your nails weekly so that you only need to trim the nail top. If it is rough, you can fine-tune the little parties. Do not delay more than 2-3 weeks in nail trim.
- Your dog will accept the process more often the more you practice it. You can give him his lovely food when trimming his nails.
- It does not require every nail to trim the amount of it. Do not trim the nail without attention, as the nails wear out differently so that the back worn more than the front. Curvature values in the nail, curved tip pen, or nail tip only. The main goal is not to touch the dog's nails.
- Remember to recite the whole nail. These claws become very long if they are not trimmed as they do not wear out in a natural way.
- If you have not already trimmed your dog's nails before, it is preferable to take your dog to the veterinarian or the dog tclinic to trim his nails for the first time, and observe the process closely to learn.
Nail trimming will soon become an important task.
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