Try to make nail trimming an enjoyable experience through reward-based training. It's a good idea to get your dog used to having their paws handled from an early age to make nail trimming less stressful for both of you. Nails can sometimes seem to bleed a lot, which can be very upsetting and worrying to see, but is unlikely to cause problems for a healthy dog. Ask someone to contact your vet straight away for advice. Find a sterile and non-adherent dressing and apply it directly on the nail, applying pressure with your hand, then use a bandage to wrap over the dressing and nail, then around the paw and secure it with a piece of tape or by tying a bow with the bandage material.
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Light colored claws are easier to cut than dark claws as the blood vessels and nerves that supply the claw, called the quick, are easier to see. The handles of the trimmer can be held pointing toward the floor, as pictured at the left cutting the nail from bottom to top or the handles of the trimmer can be held pointed towards the ceiling cutting the nail from top to bottom ; which ever is more comfortable in your hands.
The tip of the nail is placed in the stationary ring in the trimmer with the clipper perpendicular to the nail cutting either top to bottom or bottom to top. If the trimmer is placed parallel to the nail cutting from side to side , the nail is crushed and may splinter. The cutting blade should be facing you, NOT the dog. The screws on the handle of the trimmer should be facing the dog. If you turn the trimmer around with the screws toward you, the cutting blade is cutting closer to the quick than if the trimmer is held with the cutting blade toward you.
You are less likely to cut into the quick if the cutting blade faces you. You cannot see the quick on dark colored claws, making them more difficult to trim without cutting into the quick. As you cut off small pieces of the nail, look at the cut edge of the nail. The light tissue 1 is the curved bottom part of the nail.
The mottled light and dark tissue 2 is the top part of the nail. As you cut the nail deeper, you will see a homogeneous gray to pink oval 3 starting to appear at the top of the cut surface of the nail. Stop cutting the nail at this point as additional cutting will cut into the quick. The sharper the trimmer, the cleaner the cut. The cutting blade on guillotine-style cutters can be replaced when it is no longer sharp. A correctly cut dark colored nail next to an uncut mixed colored nail.
The mixed color nail is darker close to the base of the nail preventing one from seeing the quick. This nail should be trimmed in several small cuts. If the toenail is cut too short, you can use a styptic pencil containing silver nitrate to stop blood flow, although many animals object to the styptic pencil as much, or more, than toenail cutting. The black end of the stick is held to the bleeding nail and gently rotated until bleeding stops.
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Day 3: Touch the nail clipper to each paw and squeeze the clipper so the puppy hears the sound, or turn the grinder on and let the puppy feel the vibration. Day 5: Try trimming off just the very tiniest tip from one front paw nail. Only do one nail.
Offer lots of happy praise and a treat if your puppy lets you. Even if he lets you, just do one.
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