I hope your day has better energy than this velvet hippo getting his nails trimmed.
Rescue HippoI had to lie down behind ours, put him in a half nelson, and feed him bacon throughout the process. My wife learned to be really fast with the clippers. I have never seen a dog so freaked out about anything. As panicked as he got, he never snapped at us. And he still had the presence of mind, somehow, to eat the bacon. Good boy.
They're such drama bois (which I think is just a cover for being praise whores).
My partner has to hold ours in a bear hug around their chest and butt with their legs facing down. Immobilizing them is the only way. Otherwise it is dramatics from start to finish. Even if I bribe them with the good stuff! They’re ridiculous. 😆
and feed him bacon throughout the process.
This made me snort. But it's also so danged true when it comes to trimming those tootsies.
We had a one cookie per foot deal. She would cry like we were torturing her, then gobble up the cookie. Repeat x 4.
That is not a happy hippo but those nails have to be trimmed ❤️😿
Shoutout to u/sammyg723 for the prompt to trim his nails on one of my earlier posts. It’s just so hard to see them sad.
He doesn’t look too happy haha.
It’s your fault. You caused his pain. /s
Jk, he’s still a happy loaf.
That face...all I "hear" is- "Stop snapping pics, and SAVE ME!" lol poor baby.
I cheat when doing my pups nails. I grab a bully stick, a bully stick holder, a quasi willing bully stick holder's holder (cranky spouse) and trim/grind as needed. Never in my life did I ever think I've say/type these words "I am grateful for dried bull penis", but here I am.
😂 The last line! Me too! My mom almost fell over when I told her what it was.
I smear peanut butter on a plate and follow her as she spins around it. It was pretty chaotic the first time but she's accepted it better since.
Could you cut up a rug pad and put it under the plate or get a lick mat? I worry for the toesies.
?? I must not have described it well if you are "worried for the toesies"
I mean, the reference to spinning doesn't sound great. Also, please see my other comment about why I worry.
🤣 It's normal goofy dog "spinning" as in she moves herself around the plate in a circle to get all the peanut butter.
Like this with one dog https://tenor.com/6hBQ.gif
I did see your other comment and I'm sorry to hear you lost your pupper. 🫂 My Lucy-goosey is 8-9 and I try not to think about the fact I'll lose her one day.
My hippo literally screeches when I try to file his nails…the DRAMA. Never snaps though, he’s so good. Just SCREECHES like I’m murdering him 🫥
He looks sad, but not very squirmy! That’s a good pup!!
Oh, the HUMANITY!! LOOK AT THAT PITIFUL FACE! 😆🤣
My boy requires at least one more human to accomplish this. Preferably 2 more.
Same! One human for pets and to hold the peanut butter on a spoon.
Second human to use the nail grinder.
Please, I am dying
Unfortunately we have to give our boy sedatives to cut his toenails. He is a rescue and has horrible trauma surrounding his feet and tail being touched. I am allowed to touch them and clean them off if he gets dirty outside, but he gets so stressed and scared if I try to cut the toenails without sedating him.
Poooooor baby!!
“Help me human. I am being tortured.”
Stop with all the torture! Look at that poor thing!
My girl has to be done under sedation. As sweet a soul as she is, when 100lb of Pibble says "No!", a different solution must be found....
I'd watch when my girl would get a pedicure by a professional. I think she loooooooved it because while she was on the table it was TIME FOR FACE KISSES FROM NINA. I don't know how the person didn't drown.
I didn't trim her nails because one of my dogs had a toenail fall off after a PetSmart trim. That became known as the Mortgage Payment Toenail Incident. It's been 6 or so years and I'm still dumbstruck.
(I almost wrote about my kissing pittie in the present tense. She passed away absolutely unexpectedly on 1/28/24. Shit sucks.)
My boy was too smart. I trimmed his toes til he got to be about a yr old. Then he realized if I couldn't trim his toes, the cute vet techs would do it. Come to find out, he'd have at least 3 techs on him, one butt scratching, one feeding him canned cheese, one rubbing his ears while he got his toes trimmed. My lil pimp, I couldn't even be mad at him.
What a cute pathetic baby! His face markings look so similar to my girl
As horrible as it sounds, it would be so much easier if my pup was just sad when I trimmed his nails. He thinks I'm playing and gets so incredibly excited when he sees the clippers that I'm lucky to get a couple half done at a time. Everything is a big game to him haha
Lol the eyes of betrayal
Every comment makes me happier that my girl bites her own nails to trim them.
Mr Happy
You are literally KILLING him!
Says his mind.
I love this picture
I put mine on her back with her head against my belly. She just looks away and i use a dremel with a sanding bit. She hates it but feels better after .
That look! The slant eye.😎 I can relate. Mine are the same way. At least it appears your pup stays still.
the look of defeat is hilarious
Awwww, looking at the camera person like, please help!…..lol
Misery
Mine is too old to squirm and try to get away anymore. Just sits there and makes the saddest face just like that 😆
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