Pedicure Please: 3 Steps To Dog Nail Trimming Or Grooming Success At Home! #107
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
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Trying to cut a dog’s nails can be one of the most difficult jobs for many dog owners. When I asked who was interested in the topic of consent in dog training for nail trimming on my last podcast episode, there were many comments from people wanting help. So, we’re going through the steps to help everyone clip their dog’s toenails so that all dogs can enjoy a pedicure.
In the episode you'll hear:
• The 5 categories of feelings dogs can have about nail trimming, from terrified through to love.
• About the importance of trimmed nails for our dog’s health and longevity.
• What my friend Dr. Leslie Woodcock shared about toenails and posture, and wellbeing for geriatric dogs.
• How I used to cut nails and what my dog Twister experienced.
• Why I developed Your Dog’s Pedicure Please Program.
• The three stages of cutting your dog’s nails: CER, Game On, and Trimming.
• About creating a positive conditioned emotional response for clipping nails.
• How to condition positive emotions to the sight and sound of nail clippers, Dremel or another pet nail grinder.
• Why you want a “game on” position and “game off” indicator so your dog shows you consent.
• How to keep your dog’s nails short while you are working on them saying “yes!” to a pedicure.
Resources:
• Get Your Dog’s Pedicure Please Program - https://dogsthat.com/product/pedicure-please/
• Podcast Episode 106: Consent In Dog Training: The Misuse, Misunderstanding And Misapplication - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/106/
• Video Blog with Dr. Leslie Woodcock: Cutting Your Dog’s Nails: How Important Is It Really? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2013/08/cutting-your-dogs-nails-how-important-is-it-really/
• Susan’s Favorite Dremel and Nail Clipping Equipment - https://dogsthat.com/favs/#tve-jump-17b7f042a43
• Susan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/susangarrettdogsthat/
• YouTube Video: Target Stick Training Part One - https://youtu.be/MzePo7RSQu4
• YouTube Video: Target Stick Training Part Two - https://youtu.be/TqsEEWCXze0
• Learn the ItsYerChoice Game - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
• Video Blog: Help! My Dog Hates His Nails Cut … What Do I Do? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/01/my-dog-hates-his-nails-cut/
• Video Blog: Proactive Conditioning for Dog Nail Trimming Success - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/11/proactive-conditioning-dog-nail-trimming/
• Video Blog: This! One is About Conditioning the Dremel for Puppy Nails - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/11/conditioning-the-dremel/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/JIPxgReFk58
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most difficult jobs for most dog owners is trying to cut their dogs nails. |
| 0:16.0 | It's so difficult that a lot of pet owners end up taking their dogs to a veterinarian or to a groomer to get the job |
| 0:23.4 | done professionally. But all that ends today. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And in my last |
| 0:30.7 | podcast, episode number 106, I spoke about the topic of consent. And I asked the the question if anybody would like to know how I |
| 0:40.0 | go about shaping my dogs to love to have their nails cut. And there was almost a hundred |
| 0:45.0 | comments on my YouTube channel asking, yes, I would really like to know. And that's what this |
| 0:50.1 | episode is all about. It is the contents of a program that you will find on my website for $50. |
| 0:57.0 | It's called your dog's Pedicure Please program. Now, depending on when you're listening to this, |
| 1:01.6 | you might find that program for 1997 because it's brand new. But because you're listening |
| 1:09.0 | to this episode, I'm going to share how you work through |
| 1:13.4 | it right here on today's podcast. Why you may ask? Because my goal is to help all dog owners |
| 1:20.1 | to help their dogs have their best life possible. And I don't think that that needs to have |
| 1:26.4 | a boundary of your finances. |
| 1:29.4 | And so today I'm going to take you through the step by steps that are in that program |
| 1:33.8 | so that many of you will go on and be able to shape your dogs, to give you consent, |
| 1:40.7 | to cut their nails because they're going to want it. All dogs will fall into one of five |
| 1:46.3 | categories when it comes to nail trimming. Some dogs may be absolutely terrified. Like, |
| 1:51.9 | they're so over threshold, they are like fearful. They're full on fight or flight. And those |
| 1:58.5 | dogs like would have to be medicated to have their nails cut. |
| 2:02.4 | So, incredibly frightened. There are dogs who just plain hate it. You know what? I'm going |
| 2:06.8 | to do everything in my power to avoid it. I'm going to fight you every moment that you're |
| 2:10.9 | going to be trying to cut my nails because I flat out hate it. Then there's the third grouping |
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