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Be ready to be patient if your dog fears small appliances. We still have to hold him and feed him when we want to do his nails (a two person job).Product itself works well. but my dog is terrified. It took several weeks of "peanut butter therapy" to get my beagle to relax around this thing.
She's 60 pounds, so I can't do it alone. However, I can't get the dremel close enough to her nails to even trim them. Still working on this one. OK so I'm not sure yet about this product. My dog is not afraid of the sound, which is great and surprising at the same time because she's afraid of a lot.
We have to be extremely careful or her hair gets caught in the spinning shaft (even when using the suggestion of covering her foot with a nylon stocking and allowing the nails to protrude). The dog allows the grinding but is not very happy about it. I am not very satisfied with this product. Our dog is small (12 pounds) and her toe nails are small enough that it is difficult to grind from their bottom side without touching hair or the pad of her foot. If I could have tried it first, I would not have purchased the tool. We have determined that it is too much grinding to only use the tool on our dog's toe nails. Therefore, we are clipping first and then using the grooming tool to finish the process and smooth the nails.
And once they don't react to it, dremel their nails being careful to not get close to the quick. Just let the pet get used to the noise, praise them, give them treats for staying calm near it. The same way you'd do with any other nail trimming device.If you don't have a dremel, you could get this one primarily to use on your pets, but you can still use it for any other dremelly purposes.so that's handy. It's just a dremel with an insert describing how to use it with pets. There's no guard to prevent one from dremeling too close to the quick.If you already have a dremel, use that.
She trembled for 20 minutes after just having it near her. So I gave it to my daughter who has two larger dogs and also helps out at a dog rescue.
Clipping dogs nails is just tough and I am disappointed that this wasn't the answer for us. So maybe she will get some good use out of it.
I purchased this with great hopes that this would solve the anxious time associated by triming the dog's nails. My Yorkie never wanted her nails clipped but this added noise and vibration and freaked her out.
Good luck. After following the prescribed method that came with the device and gradually introducing my Yorkie it just didn't work.
If your dog is a bit nervous, this will not help.
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