A Nail Grinder For Your Dog? As Good As Getting ... - Doctor 'Pets'

I was reading a newspaper article about trimming a dog?s nails. All was well until I came across a curious paragraph:

?Trimming your dog?s nails necessitates the right equipment. There are two basic types of nail clippers for dogs ? a guillotine type and a scissor type. Purchase the size that is correct for your dog. If a nail clipper is intolerable for your dog, an alternative may be a nail grinder ? an electronic tool that sands nails down.?

Well, I suppose that?s what you get when how-to advice is written by journalists and not field experts.

I have seen a few of those ?nail grinders? on the market (one of them is pictured above) and in all my years of veterinary practice I have never met a dog that would tolerate having their nails sanded down by one of those.

To suggest that if a dog?s nails can?t be trimmed you should use a nail grinder is like suggesting that if the jump leads wouldn?t start your car, you should try hitting it with a hammer! It?s ridiculous, shows ignorance and simply wouldn?t work.

So please, please do me a favour ? don?t buy a nail grinder for your dog. Not unless you really want to be bitten. Or maybe you just want a present for someone you don?t like.

And if you want to learn how to cut your dog?s nails ? I have written an article ?How to cut your dog?s nails?. And believe me, I?ve cut a few dogs? nails in my time.

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Dr Vadim Chelom is a Registered Veterinarian, a writer and an educator

Source: http://doctor-pets.com/2012/09/10/a-nail-grinder-for-your-dog-as-good-as-getting-your-teeth-drilled/

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