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| Hi. I just recently purchased the Dremel minimite to grind my dogs nails. I wondered, for those of you who do this, do you hold the dogs paw, or try to hold the nail itself. My dog has a tendency to jerk back his paw sometimes (front ones anyway), so it would be helpful to hold the paw, but don't know if that gives enough stability to the nail to grind it. He's skittish about things being done with his paws. He is ok about noise - will let me clip his hair with clippers and sit quietly. I've managed to touch the grinder to each nail with it running for a second as of last night, so I think things are going ok for only the second time trying it. I think he'll get better the more I do it and he doesn't get hurt. I'm just trying to do a tiny bit at a time because his nails are too long - he has black nails and I've not been good at clipping them regularly. Meg
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| You know, I think I figured out a better way for me to do this tonight. Unstead of having my dog lying on his side, and trying to hold onto his paw that way, I sat him in my lap - and was able to grab his paw in front of me and found it easier to hold him still plus have a stable hand doing the grinding. Of course this only works for him cause he's a relatively small dog. We made it through all the paws tonight - a couple of seconds each nail. I am sure as I get better at this he will not lose so much patience - also as he sees he's not going to get hurt it will help. Meg
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Make sure your not cutting into the quick and making the dog jerk.
Doug 
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| No, he's pulling away his paw before I even touch him and I'm barely touching the nail with the dremel. It went better last night though. Meg
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Thats good I'm glad you found a way to get the dog to hold still.
Doug
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| Thanks for your replies. Today he just lay quietly and let me do it. I think I found yet an better position for me yesterday- on his back between my legs. This lets me see the nails real well and also get to them from a good angle. I think my problem wasn't so much whether to hold the nail or paw, but getting him in a position where I could hold him still so I could hold the paw and nail steady and still do the grinding. I can see where having another person to help would be nice. I did find out today what I'd read that yes, the Dremel can catch hair. Not my dogs luckly - while I know it could do that, I carefully trimmed his feet up so I wouldn't have to worry about that as much, but my own as I was leaning over to do the front paws - on the very last nail. Luckily I was able to turn it off and wind my hair off of it without it getting damaged or pulled. I have long hair so it didn't hurt, but needless to say I will be tying up my hair from now on. Meg
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| which accessory or attachment do you use to grind your dogs toe nails, i have two westies and a rottweiller and the rottweiller is too big for regular toe nail clippers, i'm wondering if i should use the cut off disk or the sanding part
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Came across this on the web when I was actually researching something else.
Hope this helps.
http://homepages.udayton.edu/~merensjp/doberdawn/dremel/dremel.html
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