When dogs actively walk, run much, their claws grind off and shortened. But at inactive animals they grow and begin to be bent down, pressing on fingers, being split and causing pain at the movement. Puppies need to cut claws regardless of their activity, otherwise fingers and paws can incorrectly be created.
Instruction
1. To define need of a hairstyle of claws at a puppy, put him on an equal floor and look whether they concern the earth – if yes, that it is necessary to cut off them. If when walking on firm surfaces you hear knock, then it is time to undertake scissors, to be exact, special devices – the kogterezk reminding the guillotine. Buy such tool in veterinary shop.
2. Puppies do not love the procedure of a hairstyle of nails, but it is necessary to accustom to it since childhood, carrying out it is regular. At this time you praise the pet, talk to him tenderly and console. Treat carefully a dog if you see that she strongly is nervous, transfer a hairstyle next day. Better choose such time when the puppy was tired and wants to sleep.
3. The first time it is desirable to address the veterinarian or the dog hairdresser, especially if the pet blackhas claws – perhaps, it will be difficult for you to understand, where to cut, and you will wound a dog. On a white claw it is well visible a sensitive part, it pink color. Ask to show how it is correct to use kogterezky. When you develop skill, you will be able independently to cut claws to a puppy.
4. You carry out the procedure in well lit place, ask somebody to shine with a small lamp on claws. Choosing the place of a cut, you look at a bottom side of a finger – there living tissue more noticeable. Cut off gradually, monitoring reaction of a dog. When you notice a dark stain in the center of a claw, it means that blood vessels and the nervous terminations close. After cutting it is possible to start the following claw, and it is possible to process it a nail file.
5. If you after all touched the sensitive place and blood went, take the absorbing laying and press it on the cut-off end for several minutes. Treat the wound peroxide of hydrogen or use a special styptic pencil. After a hairstyle give delicacy to a puppy that next time he was not afraid of this procedure.