trim dog toe nails or not

[bignasty]

I always leave the dogs toe nails long for traction but have one dog that had broken his front toe nail a few times so im going to keep his short so he dont break them any more...when this happens he has to sit at the house for 3 weeks.

[jdt]

if my dogs were to get long toenails i'd figure i needed to use them more .

[chipolariverman]

My dogs are all in wood floor kennels I have to keep their toenails trimmed.  The toe nails that are white have to be trimmed more often, dogs with black toenails I hardly ever have to trim them.   I have a white n red July Deer dog that his toe nails grow like crazy.  My blue pits have black toe nails and I never have to trim theirs.  I have a Catahoula that has some white and some black nails, crazy but the white nails grow faster.

[bignasty]

this dog is a pit,red with red toe nails no white.he is kept on a chain set up in the sand so no cement to keep them ground down.he goes to the woods 3 times a week,he is a rcd runs 20 miles avarage per hunt.

[Goose87]

I've seen them get to long to the point that they were picking the dog pads up off the ground a little, it got to were it was affecting this one gyp to where it was hindering her running some, this is just my opinion and my view on this topic but I keep all my dogs that are on chains toe nails clipped I don't think it helps at all with traction, if you walk your dogs on a good firm solid surface and here the toe nails making a clicking sound it's time to trim them....

What was said about the white toenails needing to trimmed more often I can see, I never thought about it but I have a gyp who is by no means a social butterfly and if she's not hunting 90% of her time is spent in her barrel in her kennel, I have to trim her about once every two months.

[Shotgun wg]

Trim as needed. My dogs that dig need trimmed less often. The ones that lay up all the time need the most. Most dogs run regular don't need it but there is always the exception to the rule.


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Arkansas

[Cajun]

One thing I have noticed over the years. The real tight footed dogs very rarely ever need their toe nails clipped where flatter footed dogs seem to grow longer toenails. After hunting for a week in Canada, all my dogs nails will be worn almost to the quick running on rocks. Hunting on drier, sandy soil or rocks seems to keep them down. Hunting them in the marsh does not wear them down at all. Some women can grow long fingernails & some cannot. Same with dogs. I have always liked the darker pads & toenails on dogs but have had some Plotts with lighter toenails & it never seemed to affect them.

[Goose87]

I can see that as well Cajun, the gyp I wrote about earlier has what I would say would be wider feet than than a few of the other dogs I have, for instance I have one little male whose feet are about as big as a 50 cent piece and I've never had any trouble out of his feet or nails.

[Black Streak]

Excessively long toenails will put unwanted stress on the toes many times.   Best to keep them in check if the dogs are able to grow their nails long..        Sure won't hurt to give long nails a trim (less u cut to short lol) but it CAN hurt to have long nails.

[Pwilson_10]

I always trim mine if not it never fails they will pull a toe nail and be out for two weeks


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[bird]

I keep my dogs nails trimmed down as close to the quick as possible. I use a dremel tool instead of clippers to avoid cutting too short and getting the quick