I have the guillotine type cutters. Keegan isn't usually good about getting them trimmed. I don't know why b/c I tried playing with her paws since she was a wee fart. I usually have to wait until she is wore out from playing at my parents house or at the dog park. Then I shove a couple biscuits in her mouth and go to town!! BUT the other nite I was trimming them and she squirmed and I cut one twice. She bled for an hour. I didn't have any syptic powder or anything.(which I do now!!!) I took her out to the snow and put flour on it. Finally I shut her in the bathroom with the lineolum for awhile then it stopped bleeding. But the next day when we were playing outside it broke open again.
She's fine now.
My RB greyhound was a terror when I first got her. My dad and I tried to do it and she started to freak out and my dad jumped about a foot in the air and said "I am not doing it!!!"
So I found a groomer who did a good job for $4.00. Nicest lady.
The groomer I have been taking Kylie to for her grooming also charges $4 for all nails.