Over the years I've used different kinds of nail clippers and Dremels to grind our dogs' nails. My preference is to use a Dremel as I think it's easier to get a shorter nail without endangering the quick.
As Koan has gotten older, she's become increasingly adverse to having her nails trimmed with any option. Mind you, it's ONLY her front nails. I can still use a Dremel to grind her rear ones. We had to start using drugs to calm her and even that was proving less and less effective in the past couple of years.
I don't want to stress her out, but I don't want her to tear a nail in agility on a contact, so I did some research and I found that many people make their own nail boards or scratchboards and teach their dogs how to use them. I figured I could do that - and so I did. I followed the information found at Canine Lifestyle Academy on how to create the board, but here are many options.
She's very food motivated, so was easy to train.
