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Nail clipping

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LizJ

Warren Scout
I've just booked Asta in to have her nails clipped at the vets - she's a house bun and doesn't have much chance to wear them down.

The vet have said it will be £18.50 - does this sound like a reasonable cost? With all the different posts about vaccination costs, I'm starting to think my vets is a little expensive. Just wondered what you guys pay to have nails clipped.
 
I have been doing it myself for the past 8+ years. For my birds and my bunny. It's a very simple job:

You just want to make sure that you don't clip into the blood line at the center of the finger nail.

To avoid that, all you need is to cut just a little bit at a time assuming the nail is long, say cut about 1 to 1.5 mm.

To judge if the nail is long, feel the curve w/ your finger, if you can feel the end of the nail is really curves down, it's time to cut it. You only need to cut using the 1 - 1.5 mm rule, once every 2 mth. or so.

If the bunny is nervous about the cut, just do one paw at a time, with a several hour gap per paw.

Oh, make sure the nail clipper has a reasonable gap, oridinary nail clipper is meant for human nail, there are larger nail clipper that has a 5 mm gap, that's the one you want to buy.
 
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