[Carina43]

I've been guilty of this too...trimming a dog's nails never occured to me. I used to live in the city, so the dogs had frequent walks on concrete or whatever, and we did LOTS of hiking. Under those conditions, nails stay short until the dog gets old & less active. This happened with Phoebe...she was about 12 when her nails started getting too long. I wussed out and let my vet do them for $7.00 a visit. :o

I had a foster Golden whose nails were so long they were curling under his poor feet. He couldn't walk comfortably...the vet took a good 1/2" off some of his nails (yes they bled some) but that old dog seemed just delighted to have them short!