Learn to trim your dog’s nails safely! #doggrooming #grooming #nailtrimming

Name: Learn to trim your dog’s nails safely! #doggrooming #grooming #nailtrimming
Uploaded: 2025-02-20T14:40:13+00:00
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Channel: AJ Vargas
Description: In this instructional video, AJ Vargas of Custom K9 Unlimited explains why keeping a working dog’s toenails short is essential—preventing injuries on…

20 Feb 2025 · 3 min

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In this instructional video, AJ Vargas of Custom K9 Unlimited explains why keeping a working dog’s toenails short is essential—preventing injuries on hard surfaces, avoiding snagging on decoy or bite suits, and reducing the risk of nail breakage. He demonstrates a safe trimming method: securing the paw in the palm, using thumb and forefinger to isolate each digit, and clipping only about 1/8 inch at a time to stay clear of the quick (the nail’s blood vessel). The presenter emphasizes pausing if the dog moves, allowing breaks, and making multiple tiny cuts if needed. The video concludes with an invitation for viewers to ask questions or comment, positioning the tutorial as part of a series of kennel‑care guides.

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In today's video, we are going to be talking about why it is important to trim a dog's toenails, especially if they are a working dog. We are going to be showing you how to clip a dog's toenails today. This is pretty important for us with our working dogs. A lot of times they're going to be on hard surfaces like cement or the hard surfaces in their kennels. We also have working dogs who will be around the decoy suit or a bite suit and for that we are going to need to have the dog's nails short enough that they're not going to get caught inside of that jute and then possibly break or tear. With this, you can see that this dog has no issues letting me touch his feet currently, but he is quite active, so that is when we would want to be extremely careful so that we are cutting only the smallest amount possible at a time while trimming. We like to say 1/8 of an inch. That way we can continue down as many times as needed, and hopefully we do not touch their quick, which is the blood vessel within a dog's toenail. When we are cutting a dog's toenails, we do want to have the foot secured. So I would place the dog's paw in the palm of my hand, and then I would use my thumb and my forefinger to hold each digit. Once I have that digit exposed, I would simply trim a tiny little amount before continuing down. If the dog needs a break or starts to move, we would simply let go of the paw and then we would start again with the next toenail that needs to be trimmed. As you can see right here, we do have the tiniest little piece of the dog's toenail. That is the extreme little tip of the toenail. We would clip at one time. Some dogs might need more clippings on the same toenail due to the extreme length, while others will not need that. If they need their toenails clipped at all. Thank you for watching our short video on nail clipping. If you have any questions about how we do things here at Custom K9 Unlimited, please feel free to reach out to us or comment below, um, and we will be back next time with another kennel care video.