Thanks for joining me today as we trim nails
I will give you tips throughout the session, and at the end you'll see one more tip to helping keep your dogs happy and healthy
Thank you, Jackson, he's going to be our model. Thanks for the kisses. Thank you. He is going to show us how we trim nails
His nails are the hardest because they're black. It's easier to do the cavaliers
It's easier to do Hazel's nails. So we'll do his first, and you can kind of see what it's like
First a little lesson on nail anatomy for dogs. So this is the quick, the pink part, and that's the part we want to avoid
So we're going to trim where the yellow line is, so it's at a slight angle and it's where
the nail would touch the ground. Once we've trimmed it, we also want to round the edges slightly and that allows the quick
to move back over time and allow it to us to cut the nails slightly shorter
let's get to it. Okay, I use this Dremel brand, and it is really nice
It's got a special piece on here to protect their nails so that it doesn't hit anything
So it's got a plastic piece on here. So this is made specifically for Pett, but it's by this really good Dremel brand
Sometimes a lot of the other ones I've tried in the past, they weren't strong enough
especially for the bigger dogs' nails. Come here, buddy. I always let them sniff
Yeah, it's just fine, right? I usually put it on a level two
And then you want to do it straight on like where their feet would touch the round
You can only spend a few seconds on each nail and then you need to move on
It does get a little bit warm. They'll pull if they feel like it's hurting
The other thing that you want to do is you want to make sure that you are shaping around the nail and that'll help the quick row back
I'll keep it flat for the most part. I'm goingho around. First of all, make sure I don't get any sharp edges, but also to make sure that quick
again only a couple seconds on each now if you need to go back
back right now if you're going to do this on your own make sure that you check and see if they
have any dew cause are are down here so they like kind of like kind of like a thumb Some dogs have had them removed especially if you get rescued like we do
if you look and see if they have them. You have them in everybody except for breed
I think some of the breeders maybe take them up because they're afraid it'll hurt the siring up
So one more. One more. That's white. You can get a treat after this chick-fee
I just need to get that one. I've never needed it
There are statistics. In case you do, you get too close to the wick
But if you do this every other week or every third week
we're really not going to get long enough where you're going to need to do this. going to need to do that. And I have your other
closer by me so I could do this. All right. I don't normally do it like this
So he's, what do we do it? But I want you guys to be able to see what I'm doing
Jacks does a lot of running in the backyard. Let's take us to the walk
The concrete does help. kind of naturally shaped their nails some. But not enough
Longer than the others. And then again we're going to do his two-law
Good boy. Good job. Good job. I'm going slow
This is your first time. Just do it a little bit, especially for the dogs perspective
I've never seen this big thing that makes a lot of noise, a lot of dust
So just take your time with it. Give him lots of praise when they're darn good boy, Jacks, good boy
And then he's going to get a big treat, and that's something he loved. Yep, I said the word treat
So yeah, you look at your lips already. So I'm going to get him a treat after I finished tobacco
I finished tobacco pause. He's just fine, Charlie, but thanks for checking on him
This is Charlie. He's going to take a nap while I do this. Do you smell it? Nope. Just ready to go
So we're just going to get Charlie started. So again, his are a little bit harder to see because
he does have a lot of hair. I do trim his hair around his slosh just because it makes it easier for
this primarily, but it's still wintertime, so I don't. don want to trim too much of the hair around his feet that his feet get pulled His nails are a little bit smaller than jacks so it doesn take quite as much to prim them It a little longer
Again, their wicks are way far back because I do this every two to three weeks
Every time I bathe them. Good job. You check it out, see what I'm doing
Yeah, you can smell it. Your nose away though. And I just kind of keep my finger on their pad of their foot so it pushes out the nail
Good job. And he has a Dupah back here as well. These Dupas are super important to get them
Super important to get to. His hair out of the way. Good job
Can I have your next foot? Do your back foot first? He's got like automatic pulling foot
This is his... That has the automatic pulling. We call it a slumber foot
He has it, and so does free-breed. They just have one foot that kind of always..
pulls. I'm going to just pull the bed time too. Okay. Nothing's happening
Nothing's happening. Thanks for giving me kids. Nothing I hurt you from
Take me about a minute for a dog. Maybe a little less
Last one on this foot, Charlie. Good job, Charlie. Can we flip you over and do your other side
Good job, Charlie. Can we flip you over and do your other side
I'm a shot, I'll try
Some tips for cleaning the dog eyes on a daily basis
Charlie and I wanted to show you how we do just in-between washes
So every day, every other day I wipe down the cavalier's eyes
They can have a little bit of runny eyes. They get blueberries in their food
They also get filtered water. And that helps with the runny eyes that these dogs have
I think their eyes are fairly good compared to some other cavaliers
And I attribute that to the fact that we do this. So I do this with the three cavaliers
If sometimes Jacks will have some, just stuff in his eyes. So I also do that
This is BioTrue. It's just a saline solution from Bouchon Long. And it's like the same stuff that you would put in contact in human's eyes
And I just squirt it on this round. Really, like, I've been up here too long
I'm tired of it. Then I just wipe it along where their mark is
It will get any brown. And it just keeps them from getting crusty
which can then cause them to scratch at their eyes and things like that
So he doesn't love it. None of them love it, but I think Bree Bree has the worst of the eyes
and she really appreciates when this gets done. Her eyes is her eyes
looks so much better and then they don't itch. Right, Charlie? Try not to scratch it across his eyes
Their eyes are very sensitive so you don't want to scratch their eyes. But that told me that he, when he was a baby, his somehow, his little eyes got scratched
He's got little scratches in his eyes. I don't know if he played too hard or..
We also, our black lab likes to lick at their eyes. So I think he thinks he's being a good pop-off, but he's so big that I'm..
The vet said she doesn't think it's him. Anyway, Charlie has some scratched eyes, so I think that causes him to have a little
worst eyesight at night, especially. Sometimes he gets confused about where he's supposed to come in
Could be some doggy dementia, hard to tell, but, uh, anyways, usually I have teeth brushing
as well. But just wanted to show you this. Most people know how to do teeth brushing, but this is a nice little option I have
I get this from Costco, but you can also buy it online. All right, thanks for watching
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