1. Learn how to properly clip nails. It's important to learn to properly trim your dog's nails before diving in. If you clip to short they will beleed. Which brings me to my second tip: make sure you have good clippers!
2. Always keep Kiwk stop nearby.
This is where murphy's law comes into play- if you don't have it next to you when trimming your dog's nails, you'll accidentally cut too short.
3. Trim often.
The more you clip, the faster the quicker the quick will pull back. If you clip or file a little off a long nail every few days, the blood supply will continue to recede.
4. Trim near a light or in daylight.
Always make sure to have a bright light behind you or do it in day time. The enables you to get as close to the quick as possible without causing the nail to bleed.
5. Bend their front paw back.
if your dog can watch you, they will anticipate the clip and freak out. A good solution sis to ask your dog to sit, giving him or her a treat and then grabbing their front paw, folding it under so that her paw was facing the ceiling and then clip one front nail at a time. Treats can be given in between clips.
6. Bring on the treats!
Treats are essential. your dog will associate nail trims with fun one nail = one treat. a tiny treat, but a treat nonetheless. Start small by desensitizing them to the nail clippers. Touch their paw with the clippers and in return give them a treat. Doing this for several days can help get them use to the clippers and you touching their paws. Next would be to do a few nails at a time. You can work up to this as well. It may be 10 times easier to do this when they are pooped out from play!
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