ATTACK OF THE DREMEL!
I Dremeled everybody’s nails tonight for the first time. The puppies are remarkably bigger and their nails are sharp, Nina got a scratch on her eyelid from one of them, and since they all have their eyes open now (therefore at risk for scratching each other) and their nails have hardened up…I figured it was time to introduce the Dremel. I’ve clipped their nails several times, but that still leaves a sharp edge, plus the earlier you start things, the sooner they get used to them.
I was VERY pleasantly surprised. I did their nails at feeding time (Nina had just finished nursing them so they were all in milk comas, and I was topping them up with the bottle of formula). The boys were uniformly awesome, they all just nursed on my fingers and were very mellow about the monster buzzing their feet, they seemed to care more about being moved around than the Dremeling. The girls had more of an opinion about it, but were really also pretty good – some squeaking and token attempts to escape, but the bottle o’formula had mighty power and they decided that if there was FOOD involved, it couldn’t be all that bad.