Can anyone help?

[chocolatepuppy]

I cut Lacey's toenail too short almost 5 hours ago. Even with stopping the bleeding with flour, after an hour and a 1/2 she starts bleeding as soon as she tries to walk. Any suggestions? The Emg. vet people are not much help when we call. Shouldn't she be able to walk on it? Has this ever happened to anyone? Maybe we could wrap it up. In a bit if she gets up and it still starts bleeding we will be talking her to the Emg. Vet.

[dreamparkingspace]

When I cut my dogs' nails I will occasionally cut too far and the nail will start to bleed. Flour is a good choice like you used. My guess is that a trip to emergency vet would not be neccessary unless the nail bleeds excessively all night or something like that. It seems like it should naturally heel up on its own within a couple hours max.

[wolf_Q]

Do you have cornstarch? That works better than flour. If there's a pet store open near by go over and get some Styptic powder aka Kwik Stop...that really should do the trick, even badly quicked nails should stop bleeding with that...try that before the emergency vet. I don't know about other pet stores but both Petco and Petsmart should carry Kwik Stop and both are usually open until at least 9:00.

[chocolatepuppy]

Thanks guys. The flour stops the bleeding.(I have Kwik Stop and it did nothing but then she was bleeding bad.)It was just as soon as she walked on it, even after an hour and a half it started bleeding like crazy again. She's been lying down for 2 1/2 hours now, got up and turned around on her bed and it didn't bleed, fingers crossed here. Poor Lacey, I feel so bad.

[luvofallhorses]

I think it happens to everyone Annette. (((hugs))) the black nails are the hardest. poor Lacey and poor you! Buster sends a get well kiss to Lacey. Rocky & Jenny were playing about a couple years ago and Rocky got his nail in the carpet to the quick so we had to rush him to the vets. now when his nails grow his one nail grows all crooked that he split. I think he broke 2. please let us know how Lacey is doing.

[chocolatepuppy]

Thanks Krista, Lacey is a bit grouchy now but will thank Buster later. She is still resting, meanwhile everyone in the house is starving because we don't want to eat or she will get up. Hopefully it is healed up enough she can walk to go potty and eat. Never had a nail do this before, it really had me worried. I appreciate support from all of you.

[Freedom]

Just seeing this now. I am constantly having this problem, with Ozzy"s nails. as he is small, I just hold him in my lap for a time. Yes, the bleeding stops and then the moment they put pressure, the top pops off so the bleeding starts again. Makes sense to me that the larger the dog, the longer they need to keep off the foot until the "scab" has time to develop across the top and have some depth to it.

As I understand it, the only difference between using flour /cornstarch, or the styptic, is that the styptic includes some pain reliever in addition to helping with the clotting action. My dogs have a momentary pain when the clip first happens, but they don't seem to feel it after that. So even though I tried the styptic, I found it quite expensive and little benefit over the home remedies.

Oh, another thing which helps stop the bleeding, is I hold a paper towel over the spot and put pressure on the cut end. But again, the moment they walk and put some pressure, it starts.

I have never had a nail bleed on the girls; yet Ozzy always seems to have 2 and sometimes more bleeding when I clip. I have the nail guard in place, so it's not that. I know the groomer has told me the same, the only benefit being that he can place Ozzy in a kennel which keeps him immobilized for long enough to let it all heal.

Marlin does not permit me to touch his feet, so the groomer and TWO aides have to clip his nails.

Hugs to you and gentle pets to Lacey!