How Do I Get My Dog To Allow Me To Cut His Nails

Dear Cesar,

My dog Honey volition NOT permit us cut her toe nails. She is petrified. How tin can nosotros do this?

She is a therapy dog for elderly people and needs her nails cut on a regular basis. She has some anxiety bug. They arose later on her brother Bear passed away this summer. She saw it. Could this have acquired her anxiety? Delight help the states. We need to be able to cutting her nails and don't know what to practice. Our vet suggested drugging her. We tried this and she was sooo out of it. Help!!!

Sincerely,
Janine Thomas – Winnipeg, Canada

Dear Janine,

It sounds like this therapy dog could utilise some therapy herself! For this particular situation, I would recommend water therapy in the course of swimming. Since your dog is tense and anxious, your goal is transform this frantic energy into relaxed energy. Honey can do it; you just have to show her how!

Swimming, particularly in warm water, can assistance your domestic dog relax and besides drain her energy. If yous take a small dog, you don't fifty-fifty need a pool. You tin can use a modest tub of water. Simply hold the dog past the sides and allow her paddle. If your dog is uncertain about the water, kickoff by holding her on an incline, just permit her bottom half touch the h2o. Expect until your dog begins to paddle with his forepart legs, then you tin can slowly lower her forepart half into the h2o. If the domestic dog begins to splash effectually and panic, calmly return the dog to the inclined position once again – with the back half of the dog touching the water. And then in one case the domestic dog relaxes and begins paddling with the front legs once again, ship her dorsum in! Continue this until she becomes comfy with the h2o.

Once your dog has reached the lowest level of energy, begin by holding a paw and presenting the boom clipper to it without cutting anything. Then transport her right back into the water to drain even more energy. At the same time, you are softening her nails, and so they will really be easier to trim. Then, after another round of swimming, yous present the nail clippers over again. This time cutting a niggling fleck, just to let her feel it and encounter her reaction. If she panics, ship her right back in for more water therapy, but if the dog remains calm, do the whole foot – and then send her back into the water! This way, you're not giving the dog time to focus on the boom clipping, instead she is focusing on the h2o. We are exchanging one claiming for some other! Your dog can learn to acquaintance the nail trimmings with the time in between swims that she gets to relax and collect herself.

Keep repeating this process – let your dog to swim, trim the nails, and put her right dorsum in – until you've trimmed all iv paws.

I encourage you lot to visualize the scenario going well earlier attempting it. Don't panic or feel distressing if your dog is stressed. Instead, make your canis familiaris feel safe by maintaining the calm and believing energy of a pack leader.

Stay balanced,

Cesar Millan

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