Hey there, it's Duke Ferguson owner, CEO, and master trainer at Unleashed Potential
Canine Academy and creator of Dog Training Genesis; your online Bible for dog training,
videos, and coaching, where we help dog owners, trainers, and handlers understand the science
and nature of training better so that it can achieve higher levels of attention, heart
and soul performance, enhanced relationship with their dog.
Over the long term.
This is a video clip taken from inside my Easy and Enjoyable Nail Trim Training Course
to teach you why it's important that you should keep up on your dog's nail trimming.
I'm also going to include a free PDF that gives you five steps that you can apply today
to create easy nail trimming.
You can access it from the description box below.
So be sure to download it.
It's free and you can reap the benefits.
Duke.
Why is it important to trim dogs' nails?
It's such a pain!
Get this.
Look, if your dog is actually exposed to running and walking on hard surfaces like concrete
or pavement and long enough, and their nails are often kept worn down.
And when you go to do the nails, sometimes it's just the front because the back get worn
down more often, more frequently than the front cause they push off on that.
So if you really find doing your dog's nails a pain, I find the best way to maintenance.
This is to do a lot of work on concrete on hard surfaces.
A lot of walks, a lot of runs, a lot of activities, but let's face it.
Not all dogs get this type of exposure, right?
Like I have dogs here in the wintertime.
There's not too many hard surfaces or things like that for their nails so we have to do
that.
We have to trim them.
So.
Why is it important?
Why do we have to trim them?
I'm going to give you some factors that you want to take very seriously.
The simple fact, that long nails, they're just ugly and are annoying.
Think about it over time, that constant click, click, click, click, click, click, click on
the nails.
The more dogs you got, it's a pain, painful to listen to.
Isn't it.
Guess what?
It's also painful that every step everywhere the dog goes to longer than nails do get out.
It changes things and it starts to be uncomfortable.
So that's one reason, two reasons, another prevention to your damage, to your property,
you know, poking holes in the furniture, tearing your clothes when they jump on you or your
floors wearing them down.
You know, speaking on injuring people, not instead of ripping their clothes, you can
actually prevent from long claws, injuring people when your dog wants to jump.
So that's another reason why long nails can actually put like I said, pressure on the
nail bed, and that causes pain, right?
And if you leave it untreated it'll actually injure or realign your dog's posture and joints.
So pain can also, the reason we don't want pain, pain is a pain.
It can cause behavior problems such as aggression and things like that when the dog's in pain
Long can actually develop and create unhealthy posture when the dog is running or walking
and that can be affected by that.
So that's because of pain.
Overgrown nails can actually curve right around and grow into the pad, right into the foot
on the pad, which causes, what?
Pain due to the fact that dog's got, you know, he's got a painful pad.
He's not going to want to get his nails trimmed and the paws touched and they want to be avoided
at all costs.
You know, those dogs that have long, long, long nails for a reason.
So the struggle and stress, you know, this creates often makes you avoid trying to trim
them, right?
And that struggle can create conflict with you and your dog.
I get it.
I've seen it many times, the long nails, they can actually split.
They can crack and tear and create - pain.
Nails that grow too long, their risk of catching, You know, in anything torn off, that will
create injury and injury creates pain and injury will also send you to the vet and the
vet bills are expensive.
Definitely, if it's serious enough.
So that's just one of a dozen million reasons.
That's just a few reasons why you should trim your dog's nails on a regular basis.
So I'm excited that you're in this video series and I'm here to help you get the best success
possible.
All you've got to do is show up and do the work every day and you'll be off and rolling.