Ruth Reynold's wrote:
I rarely have to trim toenails on my dogs including dewclaw nails. I
always
figured the dogs wear the regular nails down through their daily exercise.
Ruth, I used to think the same, but not any more!
My 4 year old Berner gets tons of exercise and I NEVER had to trim
When I'm picking puppies, even nail wear (front back feet) is definitely
one thing I look for. If a dog's front nails are worn down, but the back
nails long, it indicates to me that the dog does not have good drive is
doing more 'pulling' with his front legs. If his rear is worn down
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From: Michaela Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Huh? How would they achieve that? Vertical rock climing? Abseiling? VBG
(dew claw wear)
Well, when they are running and doing corners, the dewclaws of sighthounds
do touch ground. The slow motion camera is a wonderful thing!
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:56:22 - Michaela Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Therefore, do you think it's perhaps simply due to
different genes which regulate the rate of nail growth?
Does your dog with the faster growing nails have the same feet as the one
that keeps his trimmed. I mean
I rarely have to trim toenails on my dogs including dewclaw nails. I always
figured the dogs wear the regular nails down through their daily exercise.
Dogs who are not as active or who have gross conformational flaws have nails
that need more attention at my house. Maybe they DO wear down
Maybe they DO wear down the dewclaw
nails through use.
My Tinka was thirteen when suddenly she would paw my leg and leave
scratches, did start to clip her front dew claws then! Until then, no
problem! My three at the moment have front dew claws intact, they still seem
to wear them down naturally
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Hi Jean,
Only thing about relying on roadwork to wear down nails is the dewclaws on
the front legs don't have contact with the tarmac. People should pay
particular attention to these as I have seen some awful sights at the local
vets!!
Rose
We had always clipped nails and most dogs did not object after we got them
used to it.
The were not crazy about the electric Dermmel so purchased a battery
Dermmel.
Much to our surprise not one dog objected to the Battery Dremmel. It sure
makes for nice neat nails.
One thing we do with a new
Poor Major -- first we hear about his personal (and private) adolescent
sexual escapades and now we learn that he is a major wimp when it comes to
his nails. Vickey -- did your children used to say that you were
embarrassing them??!! Oh well, we promise not to tell Major that his mother
is telling
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