Overgrown toenails on dogs...

Have you ever tried a Dremel? If your dog isn't scared of the noise it works wonders! Makes them short. Check out any pet store and they are like $30.

With many small breeds, you have to trim the toenails regularly because they won't shorten on their own, and the dog may not walk on hard enough surfaces to wear them down naturally. We have to trim my chihuahua's nails every month. He hates it, but it's necessary.

Besides triming and filing them, there is not much to do. Does your dog go outside? By taking your dog for a walk on pavement their nails get filed down by the concrete.

we have a dog which toenails grow, well not that over growth-nails-type but we used to carry them like babies so sometimes if they bahave careless while us carrying them we really are prone of scratches and so my sister told me to cut them using nail cutter [hehe] yeah i know its pretty hard cause nails of pets such us dogs are a bit different from a human nail. sometimes i bruise my dog because it hurts i know. sometimes i use nipper cause i think its better.

I agree with Sedel, my dog had overgrown nails but I found that taking him for a walk on the pavement really filed them down, they're not so sharp anymore.

That is the only way I know of to get them shorter. It just takes time. I do the same thing with my dog and get behind on clipping his too. I try to do it every two weeks until I get them back under control. That is what the Vet told me to do. I wish there was an eaiser way of getting back to being shorter. If you hear of anything let me know, please.