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Summary: After trimming your parrot's nails, file them with a dremel to make the nail smooth; learn more pet parrot care in this free pet care video about parrots.
Kelly Willey has been working with small animals since she was sixteen years old. She moved from New Jersey, where she volunteered at an animal shelter and then worked as an assistant...read more
"In this clip we're going to file Allister's nails down with a drill. That will help smooth out the nails once again making it comfortable for you to hold your bird as well as comfortable for him. You don't want any sharp edges on there. It just files it down. You want to use a medium speed on the drill so that you have control over it and it's not going too fast. And all we're doing with this is taking off the very tip of the nail after we've trimmed it just to smooth it out. We're not going to need to do much with it other than to make it smooth so it's comfortable to hold him. The bird does not get hurt by the drill but you do want to make sure that the other toes are out of the way of the drill so that the drill piece is not going against their skin. Once again, that can be difficult to do, you have to pry their toes apart to get them opened to drill them."
eHow Article: How to Use a Drill on Parrot's Nails