Trimming nails INTO the quick on purpose?
So at the new vet that I'm working at, I was having a conversation with the on-call groomer. He does quite a few show dogs here in South Florida, and mentioned casually that it was common for his show clients to request that the dogs nails be cut down into the quick on purpose, then sometimes cauterized. What in the actual F? Has anyone heard of this before, or know first hand if this is a common or semi-common practice?
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I have never heard of that. I always tear up when I trim a nail too short on a dog.
They never break and I think they help him have good traction on hiking trails...
Saya and Bella are just my buds no showing for them so I do normal trims and avoiding quick at all cost. I'd hate to hear the shiba scream if I gotten it. Luckily I haven't yet it is hard on the black ones.
Now, I've seen/heard of dogs whose nails curl around and they're actually walking on them. Like my Nana's sedentary dog, or dogs that are kept confined for whatever reason.
I don't get how people allow that. My cousin's pug hates trimming so they don't do it luckily walks on cement helps keep them low enough.
My guess the old pug doesn't get walked much, but if my dog was that bad on trimmings I'd at least have vet help me..
Luckily both dogs do well for it.
With the availability of dremels to ease the quick into recession, I just don't see the point in inflicting that level of pain for show purposes.
If you're referring to the "nail clipper" method of declawing, that's very old methodology that's generally only used in non-first world countries. I worked with a vet, who had recently come from Mexico, who occasionally did his declaws with a nail clipper while the cat was under full anesthesia... but this guy was usually drunk. Modern vets use either scalpel or laser for declaws.
I'd be fine if the same procedures were done with canine nails if they needed shortening in a short period, in terms of anesthesia and some light pain meds. It's the groomers doing it + not having any sort of anesthesia that's my main beef with it.
Side note: I use dog polish that is safe for them to eat. Mya doesn't need to be any crazier than she already is..