{"id":2170,"date":"2009-01-04T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2009\/01\/04\/pedi-paws-monkey-see-monkey-do\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T14:35:56","slug":"pedi-paws-monkey-see-monkey-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2009\/01\/04\/pedi-paws-monkey-see-monkey-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedi Paws (Monkey See, Monkey Do)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I used my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pedipaws.com\/\">Pedi Paws pet nail trimmer<\/a> for the first time. (There is an audio track that starts when you click this link.)&nbsp; I received it from a friend for Christmas.&nbsp; Lody is good about letting me do stuff with her paws, especially if there is hot dog jerky involved,&nbsp; and adjusted to it easily.&nbsp; (The instructions warn to accustom your animal to the noise without using it a few times using food treats, but Lody didn&#8217;t seem to mind the noise.)&nbsp; I then tried to accustom Orion to the noise, and he backed away, so I discontinued trying.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I did another session with Lody.&nbsp; This time, I let Orion stay in the room with Lody.&nbsp; He was trying to bounce up in her face, but she didn&#8217;t seem to mind, so I worked on her claws for about three minutes, and gave her a couple of clicks and treats.&nbsp; Afterward, I held the device close to Orion and he didn&#8217;t react.&nbsp; I held one of his paws, and with difficulty, managed to locate a black claw in the black fluff of his foot.&nbsp; He allowed me to grind the claw for ten seconds and I clicked and treated before he decided to object.&nbsp; I guess he thought if it was okay for Auntie Lody, it was okay for him, too.<\/p>\n<p>People have been recommending a Dremel for grinding claws for years, but the Pedi Paws has a shield around the grinder which makes it a lot easier to use.&nbsp; For big dogs, more torque would be nice, but it seems to have plenty for small dogs and puppies. &nbsp; What would be nice would be a similar attachment to go on a standard Dremel, so one would have both the shield and the torque for large dogs whose nails have been neglected. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I used my Pedi Paws pet nail trimmer for the first time. (There is an audio track that starts when you click this link.)&nbsp; I received it from a friend for Christmas.&nbsp; Lody is good about letting me do stuff with her paws, especially if there is hot dog jerky involved,&nbsp; and adjusted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2009\/01\/04\/pedi-paws-monkey-see-monkey-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pedi Paws (Monkey See, Monkey Do)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-z0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}