How To Get Your Dog Used To A Nail Grinder

How to Desensitize Your Pup to a Blast Grinding Tool

Jan 27, 2015

Paws and Claws If your dog hates boom trims, you're far from alone. If you lot've purchased a grinder tool (like the Dremel or Pedi-Paws) to ease the discomfort, yous're in good company! And if your domestic dog runs at the sound of the tool, you're probably very frustrated, just this tin exist fixed with a picayune time and patience.

First off, a nail grinder is a great alternative to precipitous clippers. In that location's much less risk of harm when used correctly. However, your first challenge is getting your dog to cooperate long enough to employ information technology properly! Rather than fighting with your pup and forcing the issue, I suggest helping your canis familiaris get used to the experience and making it a pleasant effect.

Remember to accept baby steps. When desensitizing your dog to anything, break it downwardly into tiny, achievable steps, and never push as well far too fast. The goal is for your dog to stay relaxed and comfy through the whole procedure, piece by piece. If at any bespeak your domestic dog stops cooperating with y'all and seems stressed, terminate and go back to the last step.

Make it fun! Go out the super "high value" treats. That means lamb lung, luncheon meat, hot dogs — any your canis familiaris loves the nigh. Reward your domestic dog every single time you do one of the steps.

Start out past sitting near your dog with the grinder behind your dorsum. Turn it on for a second, so advantage your dog. Repeat 5 times. Give your dog a interruption.

Slowly innovate the following steps:
• Turn the grinder on in front of you for a few seconds; advantage.
• Bring the grinder close to your dog's paw (while information technology's off); advantage.
• Affect the grinder to one of your canis familiaris's nails (while it's off); reward.
• Plough the grinder on and touch it to a nail; reward.
• Turn the grinder on and touch it to a couple of nails; advantage.
• Grind 1 whole paw; reward.
• Proceed building on this until you lot can do all four paws in 1 session.

Each of the above steps should be repeated – in a relaxed and fun way – until your domestic dog is totally cool with that footstep. This might mean that it takes you 1-v times a day, for a few minutes, over a menstruum of a week to get through step 1. That's okay! Continue a calendar or notes on your progress to help you stay on rails.

Keep sessions short and successful. If your canis familiaris is doing well, end your session on a good note. Don't be tempted to bound three steps ahead. With patience and practice, your dog can learn to love getting a mani-pedi!

For an case of a pup comfortably tolerating his nail grind, check out this helpful video by Miles & Emma.

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Lynda manages our dog walking team at Rover-Time. Her career focus is on dog grooming and beliefs and her approach is based on science, positive reinforcement, and humane methods to improve relationships between humans and their pets. She'due south also a senior trainer at Animal Sense in the evenings and co-parents her ain dogs, Surf and Ryan, with her other one-half Mary.