How To Clip Dog's Nails When They Are Scared. Make nail trimming “quality time” you spend with your dog. Tap the nail twice, then turn the grinder on and touch the nail.
Get your dog accustomed to seeing nail clippers; Teach your dog to allow paw handling; She's not scared of the nail clippers.
Just apply pressure, a cold compress/ice, stypic powder, and a bandage.
Once you can do this with any nail and a calm dog, you can move. This is because long nails come into contact with the ground and the hard surface of the ground pushes your dog nail back to its nail bed, which is extremely painful for the dog. The quick is the pink area within the nail where the nerves and blood vessels are, similar to the area underneath our nails. After doing the one nail then go for a walk sequence for several weeks, many dogs will start to be happy when they see the nail clippers because they have learned to associate having a nail clipped with the happy event that always follows it—going for a walk.