Summary: Cutting a dog's nails isn't easy if you are worried about cutting too far down. Learn about the anatomy of a dog's nail in order to avoid cutting the dog with tips from a dog groomer in this free pet care video.
Marie Jackson has owned and operated Bubbles and Bows Mobile Pet Spa, in Pinellas County, Florida for 4 years. She is a 20-year veteran of pet grooming with added experience in dog...read more
"Well we're going to talk now about, about how the anatomy of a dog's nail and how it, how you can keep from clipping it too close. It's kind of like your nail, if you think they have, they have, they're nail goes all the way back to their toe. You can see with Sadie's white nail that they have, that they have skin that comes all the way forward. So it's going to be the same on all of the nails, about the same far, far back as here. Underneath if you turn it over just a little bit, you can see that there's a part that's hollow and that's the part that you want to clip when you?re clipping the nails. The dew claw is the same way. It usually has a curve and when you see the curve, the curve is where you want to cut the nail, just the tip of the curve there. And that's the anatomy of a dog's nail."
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