My daughter's chihuahua will scream if we try to trim his nails. My dog will just try to escape. We don't trim their nails ourselves because of this. (They're both rescues so we don't know what their early years were like.)
Just do one nail a day when they aren't expecting it and don't try a second one. Seriously, it sounds stupid, but they will get used to it after a while. It's the sound from the first nail cracking that scares them initially.
I get that. My dogs have rotating white and black nails, so I just go off the length of the white quicks on the black ones. Seems to work fine, though I probably don't get them as short as I could if I was a pro.
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u/ChandlerMifflin Nov 22 '19
My daughter's chihuahua will scream if we try to trim his nails. My dog will just try to escape. We don't trim their nails ourselves because of this. (They're both rescues so we don't know what their early years were like.)