Neat Trick

[donn0128]

Friend gave me a neat trick for taking care of your pets nails.
Dremmel Moto-Tool
Yup, the Dremmel is the perfect tool for taking care of your pets toe nails. I use one of the sanding drums for Max our rescue retriever. When I call him over he comes and immediately lays down ready to get his nails trimmed. No fighting, ho hassles with splitting nails. I take my time and am careful not to over do it so the nail stays cool and do not go to far. I can be done with all four feet in less than five minutes.
As a real side benefit I have a really nice tool for lots of other uses.

[Pawz4me]

FYI for anyone who tries the hose trick -- If the dog's nails don't poke right through on their own, touch the nail very lightly with the Dremel. Then it WILL poke through!

[xteacher]

Panty hose tip appreciated! I usually clip our dogs' nails, then dremmel them smooth. I have a cheap corded dremmel from Harbor Freight and it's a three speed. I usually operate on low for my small dogs, but used to use the medium speed for my bigger dogs when I had them.

[Gunner45]

Pawz4me wrote:

Deb and Ed M wrote:
Be REALLY careful with long-furred dogs; their foot-fur can get tangled in the dremels...

That's why I only use the battery-operated Dremels. The corded ones are too noisy (which scares many dogs) and too dangerous if they get caught in fur.

An often-used trick for long-haired dogs is to slip an old (or cheap new) knee-high panty hose over the foot. The nails will poke through but the hose will hold the fur back. It's also easier to keep the fur away if the foot is wet.

Great tip 🙂

The 4-H kids are really good at doing their dogs nails. Now that our youngest is growing up and will be going to college in a few years I guess dh and I will have to learn to do them ourselves!


~ Dori ~

[Deb_and_Ed_M]

Pawz4me wrote:

An often-used trick for long-haired dogs is to slip an old (or cheap new) knee-high panty hose over the foot. The nails will poke through but the hose will hold the fur back. It's also easier to keep the fur away if the foot is wet.

Oh - cool!!! I'm going to remember that one!!

[AZPops]

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[Pawz4me]

Deb and Ed M wrote:
Be REALLY careful with long-furred dogs; their foot-fur can get tangled in the dremels...

That's why I only use the battery-operated Dremels. The corded ones are too noisy (which scares many dogs) and too dangerous if they get caught in fur.

An often-used trick for long-haired dogs is to slip an old (or cheap new) knee-high panty hose over the foot. The nails will poke through but the hose will hold the fur back. It's also easier to keep the fur away if the foot is wet.

[Deb_and_Ed_M]

Be REALLY careful with long-furred dogs; their foot-fur can get tangled in the dremels...

[Old-Biscuit]

Where do you think Pedi-Paws got the idea.......



Been using one of them for couple of years. And if you push to hard it just stops.......not so with the Dremel Tool

Our dog has black toe nails making it difficult to see where the 'quick'
is......using clippers was a pain. The trimmer/sander works great.

[Crowe]

Have been using a Dremmel for years for nails. If you go to far it actually cauterizes the nail. Use an electric one though-the battery ones die too fast.

[K_Charles]

about a 2 or 3 mile walk on a tar road every day keeps Charlie's nails just fine

[RoyB]

That would scare me to death with my HIGH SPEED DREMMEL tool. One false move might be dangerous haha...

My RV TOOLBOX has always had a Dremmel tool with the large accessory box with it. Seems to solve alot of problems along the road...

Almost has as many uses as my handy WD40 squirt bottle haha

Roy ken

[newman_fulltime]

Other things like ice sculpting since you have all that ice up there