I was trimming nails today on my two.. One of Tommy's dew claws was pretty short already but it had a pointy little tip on it and I decided I'd just shave off the tip there but I got a tad too much and saw a bit of blood welling on the tip. I keep my grooming stuff in a fishing tacklebox (habit formed from the days when we showed Willie). Anyway I keep a little spice container with some corn meal in it and I just immediately dabbed that on. Tommy never had any reaction except he wanted to see what the corn meal was and was snuffling that as I was dabbing it on. That stuff works wonderful, clots it up right then and never a drop hit the floor. Course if I had cut it really deep it wouldn't have worked quite that well but it stopped it right away. Tommy showed absolutely no pain reaction at all, he didn't even jerk his foot when it happened.

I've seen it a lot worse a couple times, once when I worked with a groomer for awhile when I was in high school washing dogs, and she accidently cut kinda deep on a nail of a golden retriever. Another time with Willie when the breeder was at the show with us and hurriedly helping groom him up, I'm not sure how she did it so badly but she cut really deep on one of his nails, really bad. I was extremely alarmed at the amount of blood, going through some hand towels and putting some styptic type powder on the foot. Willie himself, again didn't ever react much except when it was first cut he did jerk. We could not get that nail to stop, it started up bleeding again in the show ring. What a nightmare, I still have no idea how she managed to mangle that nail so bad as I was sitting right there and he wasn't jerking his feet or anything.