Nail Cutting?

So I was thinking that I would really like to learn how to cut my pugs nails and save myself some money but was looking for suggestions.

Darth is a go with the flow kinda dude and I feel like he would have no problem with letting me cut them but he is pretty hyperactive . Dyna on the other hand freaks out when we take her to the vet to get her nails cut and it is very traumatic for her. Someone had posted on here that it is a two person job with one person with a kong and peanut butter and the other person cutting on foot at a time....I feel like this may work with her since she is so food motivated and it probably would work with Darth since he is so ADHD.

I would just like to make it less traumatic for Dyna and save myself some money, but am not really sure how to go about learning how to cut them. Any suggestions?

Try a dremel. I think there is a thread on here already about it.

Pretty much the only think that works for me is...
I give them a bath and will let their nails/feet soak in water while I am lathering them up.
Normally the whole bathing process is tiring for the pugs in and of itself.
I will then wrap them up in a towel and cut each paw one at a time. Their nails are softer and it seems to be less tramatic for them.

It took me 7 years to realize and come up with this plan of action. It works for my two pugs.

Renee wrote:Try a dremel. I think there is a thread on here already about it.

We tried the Dremel at the vet - I think that's what traumatized her! Before that she was just fine and then once we tried the Dremel and the rest is history.

Its really pretty easy to cut your dogs nails. I would buy a good nail cutter like these Dog Nail clppers. I use them on Cookie and they are great b/c they are easy to use and they have a stopper so you know exactly how short to cut them. I always keep some styptic powder around like Kwik Stop just in case you cut to far! And that's it!! Lots of treats also help!

VeronicaA wrote:Its really pretty easy to cut your dogs nails.

If your dog is not Toddy...

Snifter&Toddy wrote:

VeronicaA wrote:Its really pretty easy to cut your dogs nails.

If your dog is not Toddy...

Or Chai or Ruby lol.

Dremel all the way here.

MandyPug wrote:

Snifter&Toddy wrote:

VeronicaA wrote:Its really pretty easy to cut your dogs nails.

If your dog is not Toddy...

Or Chai or Ruby lol.

Or Skeeter. lol

I like the dremel here too, my bunch get treats and they come running when they hear the little battery operated dremel motor, and start looking for where the treats are.

Frankly, virtually every groomer and every vet I know rolls their eyes when you talk about pugs and their feet. I've been lucky as mine are all okay with it--relatively speaking. But because two of mine are blind and one is both deaf and blind, the dremel is a disaster here. I think the noise and the vibration freak out the sensory challenged. I use old fashioned nail clippers and yes, it's a two person job, but no one is a lunatic.

Almost the entire litter of 7 that I fostered are drama queens and kings about nail clipping and we started handling feet and trimming nails from the very beginning and none of them have ever been quicked or otherwise traumatised. One of them starts screaming before his nails are even done--dremel or clippers. Even as an 8 week old, most of that litter would scream their heads off as soon as they were in the "nail cutting position". It was ridiculous.

northernwitch wrote:Frankly, virtually every groomer and every vet I know rolls their eyes when you talk about pugs and their feet. I've been lucky as mine are all okay with it--relatively speaking. But because two of mine are blind and one is both deaf and blind, the dremel is a disaster here. I think the noise and the vibration freak out the sensory challenged. I use old fashioned nail clippers and yes, it's a two person job, but no one is a lunatic.

Almost the entire litter of 7 that I fostered are drama queens and kings about nail clipping and we started handling feet and trimming nails from the very beginning and none of them have ever been quicked or otherwise traumatised. One of them starts screaming before his nails are even done--dremel or clippers. Even as an 8 week old, most of that litter would scream their heads off as soon as they were in the "nail cutting position". It was ridiculous.

I''m pretty convinced Sophie was the missing 8th puppy from that litter that somehow got sent down to Vegas. All of mine are terrible at their nails, we have yet found a way to get them to be good about it. The vet has to have 3 other people hold Hooligan down.

Otto will let me do his nose roll, his ears, his eye drops, brush him, but the minute I try to do his nails, you'd think the guillotine and tumbrel had rolled into the living room. I've tried it holding dog biscuits in my mouth to distract him, nothing works.

Luckily, we have cement sidewalks here in town, so long walks keep them short enough that it isn't a problem (much). I let the vet do the others when necessary, but HE rolls his eyes and grumbles when he has to do a pug's nails. He said he'd rather do a Rottweiler's or a Dobie's than a pug's.

Imon wrote:Otto will let me do his nose roll, his ears, his eye drops, brush him, but the minute I try to do his nails, you'd think the guillotine and tumbrel had rolled into the living room. I've tried it holding dog biscuits in my mouth to distract him, nothing works.

Luckily, we have cement sidewalks here in town, so long walks keep them short enough that it isn't a problem (much). I let the vet do the others when necessary, but HE rolls his eyes and grumbles when he has to do a pug's nails. He said he'd rather do a Rottweiler's or a Dobie's than a pug's.

It's pathetic, isn't it?

Saira wrote:

I''m pretty convinced Sophie was the missing 8th puppy from that litter that somehow got sent down to Vegas. All of mine are terrible at their nails, we have yet found a way to get them to be good about it. The vet has to have 3 other people hold Hooligan down.

You know that I've always been convinced that Leila and Sophie are from the same ill begotten litter. Way too many similarities--including the midnight "wake up and party" ritual--which is why Miss Leila is crated at night.

I have started having my favorite vet tech come to my house to cut the pug nails. I usually pay her what I would pay the vet because I know she needs the extra money. Mine do so much better at my house getting their nails done. She brings the clippers and a dremel and has them done in minutes with ***barely*** any screaming from Bubba. Peachy is 1000 times better having them done at home.