Trimming Nails--Dog
Annegriet
4 years ago
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Comments (43)Depends on a few things. How much is your house? In your area, do houses in your price range have laminate, or is hardwood standard? how big is your dog? how old is your dog? how crazy is your dog? would you clean a spill up quickly and how often would you spill? when are you planning on reselling the house? ask your realtor if laminates would be a bad thing for your house. you can do laminate now, then in a few years, if it isnt suiting you, replace it. if it is, then you saved a bunch of money and are happy. we have a 2 yr old 100lb lab, she is VERY rough on the floors, but the laminate has zero scratches, and the hardwood trim is getting a beating. when she gets startled or looses traction... out come the nails. If we had hardwoods, we would have to refinish the floors before we sell the house, no doubt, so we would have had to triple our flooring budget, AND refinish before we moved! some laminate can be as expensive as hardwood, installation is also a very different in price, so do what fits your budget. We liked the color for the cheapest lam lowes had, we couldnt be happier. if it was the same price, of course hardwood is the only option, but it wasnt. that is precisely why laminates were created. laminate is also a little softer for falling babies. we have a 4 month old and real hardwoods or tile would give me anxiety attacks everyday, and she cant even crawl yet. in the end, it is what you like. 5-10 years down the line, you can rip it up and start over if you like, but do get a better pad, that makes a difference....See MoreIs there such a thing as this kind of rug?
Comments (17)I bought my remnants from a large carpet store. Big box stores is another option, but I found the quality and price for my carpets to be better at the carpet store. You can compare prices, comfort/softness, and stain resistance with the different brands till you find one you like. I know my Mohawk berber style carpet has more cushion underfoot than my Mohawk short shag, but both are pretty soft and comfortable. My shag was a green product though with the bottom supposedly made out of recycled plastic bottles. Larger carpet stores usually can offer cutting for free or a small fee, having them cut it, should give you a straight edge to work with if you bind DIY. Carpet stores and some rug stores usually offer binding services for a price per sqft, I was quoted anywhere between 2.50-3.00/sqft for binding, but decided to try it DIY. From Hobby Lobby I bought Fabri-fix (a very strong washable fabric glue), fabric cording, and 1.5"-2" wide white fabric banding that I found next to the cording, I think it's fabric pleat tape, you find them in the fabric/drape making section. I also bought some carpet binding glue from a big box store, but it may not be needed. I fabric glued the cording onto the top of the white banding (on the very edge of one side) and let it cure overnight. Then I took the carpet remnant and cut any loose strings etc. off so I had clean edges to work with. I turned the carpet upside down and put a line of carpet binding glue on the bottom all the way around the bottom edge and let it dry overnight. I think you could skip this part possibly, I'm not sure if it's really needed. I turned the carpet right side up, and took the cording with the white banding attached and slowly went along fabric gluing the banding part to the underside of the carpet and the cording wrapped up onto the sides of the carpet where I fabric glued it to the side, making sure it was very tight and secure as I went. Basicly the cording is on the side of the carpet and the banding stays on the bottom hidden. At the corners, I cut the white banding so I could fold it and wrap the the cording tightly around the carpet side edge. The cording+banding is one continuous long piece that wraps around the whole carpet. When I got all the way around and back to the place where I started, I cut the cording+banding and fabric glued the starting and ending cording edges together. Carpet underneath side The cording was like .18sqft, the white banding was .20sqft, fabric glue was 8.00 and carpet binding glue was 8.00. With everything I needed for both rugs it came to around 35.00 for the supplies. Once the cording/banding dried it was really strong and secure, I pulled on it pretty hard to make sure it was stuck on really well. It's been about 6 months on the floor now and I've cleaned and vacuumed the carpets several times, had my dogs run all over them with their long nails. The rugs and binding have held up fine, I haven't had an issue with it falling apart, or coming undone. That said, having it professionally binded would certainly be more durable. My DIY method was kind of similar to the Instabond product you can buy to do DIY carpet binding....See MoreFear of cutting my dogs nails
Comments (6)I can empathise. The thing is, the dog can and will pick up on your anxiety, and if you have a rescue dog like mine was you never know what to anticipate with the ritual. I had a battle royal at first and just took him in to the vets to get them done. $8 because a tech can do it in just a minute or two. However, I was determined to get us into a comfortable routine neither he nor I would think scary. My dog is an iggy and they do not seem to wear their nails down appreciably and they seem to have normally long and rapidly growing ones, too. Thankfully all the nails but one are transparent. That makes the job so much easier because all you need worry about is not to cut into the pink zone of the quick (blood supply). Any acting out of the dog then can be attributed not so much to pain but fear. I watched how my daughter does it. She was a vet tech and also a groomer. Her dogs sumbit without blinking an eye and it all had to do with confidence, patience to allow the dog to settle down between nails and firmness. I compensated for worrying about how deep to go by just hitting the sharp points at first...you can see that little triangle with the rough area underneath. As soon as his nails showed that the square trim was being worn down to a triangle again, I clipped again. I find that I need to clip about once a week to keep ahead of it. I also find the quick seems to extend further in the nails of dogs who are not trimmed frequently and if you can step up the frequency, the shorter nail seems to toughen up and the quick seems to recede. Once you get the nail to the length you want it..........it's much easier to keep it that way. If your dogs have long, overgrown nails turning sideways, you'll have to be persistent, careful and work gradually to get them in shape. It's pretty important for the dogs comfort and also to prevent a nail from getting caught and tearing partially loose. That's very painful for a dog and usually requires a vet visit to remediate it. My last trim job..........was a breeze. I stopped if and when the dog seemed to get nervous and distraced him a minute and then started again. It only took a minute to do and I immediately praised him to high heaven and gave him a dog treat. He knows what activities are associated to treats and this helps a lot. Oh btw, guillotine clippers can get old, dull blades and that surely applies a lot of pressure to the toe when you try to snip the nail. Did you know you can and should buy replacement blades because they get dull? I didn't....See MoreDog: claw injury
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