Post by Southern Bassets on Apr 22, 2004 14:26:46 GMT -2
[glow=red,2,300]Successful Home PETicures[/glow]
Trimming your Bassets Nails can be a lot easier then you think?
With my two, Hanna and Harley will actually wait their turns to get their Nails Trimmed. When the first hound is done and sent along their way the other will waddle over into my lap for their PETicure!
One of the biggest advantages when it comes to Trimming a Basset Hounds nails is to start young!
No one will argue that it’s easier to train a 5 pound puppy then it is to train a 50 pound Basset.
TRUST!
What you want to start doing from day one is teaching them TRUST.
Sit on the floor with your back against the couch while your watching TV at night.
Now every hound knows this is the international signal for come lay all over the owner! So that works out perfect.
Once you get them to you then with your legs out straight, flip them over onto your lap.
Immediately start rubbing their bellies and telling them what a good boy or girl they are! ! ! ! (notice all the ! ! ! ! that’s how trilled YOU should be when telling them how good they are) PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE There Can Never Be Enough PRAISE.
Once you’ve persuaded them that laying on their backs between your legs (which without a doubt should be paralyzed at this point) is a GOOD thing? Then it’s time to start on their feet! NOoooooo. . . We’re still not clipping their nails just yet. Sorry!
Now we are going to give our dearly loved Basset a “PAW MASSAGE”. Ok for you women out there just do your best to ignore the Sad Basset Impersonation that your husband is putting on for you at this point! Just tell him you’ll rub HIS back when he fixes the sink. (will never happen - trust me) When rubbing their Paws (the Bassets not Hubby’s) remember to spend time on each individual toe.
Don’t Forget to PRAISE
BRING IN THE CLIPPERS. . .
Nope we’re still not going to cut one nail on that poor defenseless Bassets Paw.
For now it’s “Clipper Sniffing Time”! All we really want to do is introduce them to this Big Bad Contraption that they are convinced will leave them toeless! I’ve even gone as far and to cut off pieces of those Doggie Slim Jims with the clippers to show they are a good thing “Gooooood Clippers, Good Clippers” By now the rest of the family (two legged variety mind you) has done conspired as to how they’re going to peacefully get you admitted into the closest sanitarium!
Oh did I mention to PRAISE them? ? ?
(No not the family planing your rubber room vacation)
Wow that’s a whole lot of loving and their nails are getting longer by the minute. Also, I’m sure by now you’ve totally lost all feeling what so ever in your legs? So. . .
THE MOMENT HAS COME!
After we’ve spent a good week getting them accustomed to and enjoying the benefits of “Trimming their Nails” (without so much as clipping one nail off their defenseless little paw) it’s time to actually make your first snip of a Toe Nail setting the tip of the nail free to soar clear across the room to only be found the next time you walk barefooted across the carpet.
Don’t worry so much on the first Official Manicure if you accomplish getting all 16 (18 with DewClaws) trimmed. Remember we’re still teaching them that this is a good thing so you may want to tackle just a couple of nails the first go around.
IMPRORTANT NOTE: With each cut take some time to tell them how good they are doing! LOTS OF PRAISE.
Visit Southern Bassets for a Diagram of how to properly trim their nails and more information on Basset Care. . .
www.southernbassets.com/bassetcare.htm#nails
by: Lonnie @ SouthernBassets.com
Trimming your Bassets Nails can be a lot easier then you think?
With my two, Hanna and Harley will actually wait their turns to get their Nails Trimmed. When the first hound is done and sent along their way the other will waddle over into my lap for their PETicure!
One of the biggest advantages when it comes to Trimming a Basset Hounds nails is to start young!
No one will argue that it’s easier to train a 5 pound puppy then it is to train a 50 pound Basset.
TRUST!
What you want to start doing from day one is teaching them TRUST.
Sit on the floor with your back against the couch while your watching TV at night.
Now every hound knows this is the international signal for come lay all over the owner! So that works out perfect.
Once you get them to you then with your legs out straight, flip them over onto your lap.
Immediately start rubbing their bellies and telling them what a good boy or girl they are! ! ! ! (notice all the ! ! ! ! that’s how trilled YOU should be when telling them how good they are) PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE There Can Never Be Enough PRAISE.
Once you’ve persuaded them that laying on their backs between your legs (which without a doubt should be paralyzed at this point) is a GOOD thing? Then it’s time to start on their feet! NOoooooo. . . We’re still not clipping their nails just yet. Sorry!
Now we are going to give our dearly loved Basset a “PAW MASSAGE”. Ok for you women out there just do your best to ignore the Sad Basset Impersonation that your husband is putting on for you at this point! Just tell him you’ll rub HIS back when he fixes the sink. (will never happen - trust me) When rubbing their Paws (the Bassets not Hubby’s) remember to spend time on each individual toe.
Don’t Forget to PRAISE
BRING IN THE CLIPPERS. . .
Nope we’re still not going to cut one nail on that poor defenseless Bassets Paw.
For now it’s “Clipper Sniffing Time”! All we really want to do is introduce them to this Big Bad Contraption that they are convinced will leave them toeless! I’ve even gone as far and to cut off pieces of those Doggie Slim Jims with the clippers to show they are a good thing “Gooooood Clippers, Good Clippers” By now the rest of the family (two legged variety mind you) has done conspired as to how they’re going to peacefully get you admitted into the closest sanitarium!
Oh did I mention to PRAISE them? ? ?
(No not the family planing your rubber room vacation)
Wow that’s a whole lot of loving and their nails are getting longer by the minute. Also, I’m sure by now you’ve totally lost all feeling what so ever in your legs? So. . .
THE MOMENT HAS COME!
After we’ve spent a good week getting them accustomed to and enjoying the benefits of “Trimming their Nails” (without so much as clipping one nail off their defenseless little paw) it’s time to actually make your first snip of a Toe Nail setting the tip of the nail free to soar clear across the room to only be found the next time you walk barefooted across the carpet.
Don’t worry so much on the first Official Manicure if you accomplish getting all 16 (18 with DewClaws) trimmed. Remember we’re still teaching them that this is a good thing so you may want to tackle just a couple of nails the first go around.
IMPRORTANT NOTE: With each cut take some time to tell them how good they are doing! LOTS OF PRAISE.
Visit Southern Bassets for a Diagram of how to properly trim their nails and more information on Basset Care. . .
www.southernbassets.com/bassetcare.htm#nails
by: Lonnie @ SouthernBassets.com
