How to train your dog to relax for nail clipping - training a dog
How to train your dog to relax for nail clipping
Check out this video to see how you can get your dog to relax and be calm during nail clipping. Splash my BC falls asleep most of the time when I clip her nails. This is the safest way to clip your dogs nails without them struggling or snapping at or biting you.
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Okay this is great and I have been trying to be as patient as you, but how are you supposed to have your dogs nails clipped so they don't grow out. You said this could take weeks or longer?? My dogs nails all ready way too long.
ReplyDeleteNice video
ReplyDeleteI'm Here to get Relax! Not To Teach Relaxing To Dog
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you're rushing ahead to the actual trimming before doing enough ground work first to get her comfortable with the trimming. You also might want to just work on her getting comfortable with having her paws held first, without involving a trimmer.
ReplyDeleteThe pedipaws are pretty much a piece of cheap crap. The Dremel Minimite is much better.
ReplyDeletei live in qatar it 55 degrees Celsius in summer and 22 in winter bring her here her tail will be so far from her ass it might fall off
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for your videos!
ReplyDeleteI have a 10 weeks old samoyed and althought he is a bit stubborn I´ve managed to teach him how to sit, lay down and give the paw using the clicker and your methods.
Now I want to teach him how to stay and to obey me when I call him. Because everytime he sees a person outside he run towards them wacking his tail and some times just sits down and watch. And no matter how much we call him he just stays there.
I´ll shall use this method for grooming.
Thanks again!
Haha, that's how clipping nails looks at my house already! Great tutorial though!
ReplyDeleteThe little doggy looks like a deer So CUTE!
ReplyDeletenice job on the vid. well behaved pups.
ReplyDeletei really love your videos, i subscribed =) my hubby wants to get a husky and i want to make sure i know some things to try and train it so that it doesnt become a house destroying monster ^^
ReplyDeletehow i wish that you can come to my house and handle my dog who is extremely afraid of nail trimming. she bites my hand every time i trim her nails and now she started to attack me whenever i touch her paw.this is giving me a headache :( sad.
ReplyDeleteI need to try this on Wolf(my papillon) when I get back home..
ReplyDeleteCan't even touch his paws...TvT
Thank you for this wonderful method, I will try it.
You seem to use a lot of treats, my pup isn't interested in her dry food as treats, and normal dog treats like dried liver gives her the runs if she eats more than the tiniest amount, because she's under 16 weeks, is there any treats you recommend for young puppies?
ReplyDeleteJust tried to trim my pups nails for the first time tonight; I wish I'd watched this first. Very helpful! And you seem like you really love your pups and that makes me happy :) I will have to try this when I give another attempt at clipping my puppies nails, since we only managed to get half of the front ones tonight.
ReplyDeleteif you would stop screamimg it would help.
ReplyDeletelol cool idea!!!! seems like the dogs later would be too drunk on treats ^-^
ReplyDeletekeep trying, you might not get very far even in the first few sessions, but by the end your dog will be more than happy to let your trim their nails! much better than the forceful method of holding them down and going to town!
ReplyDeletebtw, clicker training does not make your dog fat, you subtract their treat portion from their meals, I've clicker trained my pup from day one, and she is not fat! yet every other dog I know that is NOT clicker trained is fat! LOL
I slacked on working on this with my puppy when she was little, but now I've been working on it again. Took about 3 sessions for me to be able to touch her feet. and then she was still a little iffy. got one foot trimmed today, but I had to start from scratch with the other one,dogs do not generalize well at all! LOL with a high value treat and a high rate of reinforcement (with some breaks in between) I was able to trim the other foot about 45 min later!! don't give up! take breaks, be patient
ReplyDeleteDo i have to have a "clicker" or cant i just clap my hands or some other clicking noise?
ReplyDeleteMy yorkie ( 11 monthed) just wont let me put her nail clipper next to her nail she just would move and she wont let me touch her paws any tips or ideas to help me with my yorkie?
ReplyDeleteYour videos are so helpful for my upcoming puppy, thank you! (He's just laying on his back being hand fed and getting a pedicure, looks like the image of lazy happy doesn't he?)
ReplyDeleteceaser milan is better
ReplyDeleteSplash looks like she's having a fabulous time, and it's lovely to see a dog (Kiko) actually ~queuing up~ to have her nails done! I love the way you make everything so much fun for the dogs.
ReplyDeleteWhoa, I wonder how Splash can be so calm! She's such a calm dog!!
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