Yep, I was trimming Alpha's nails (who never had a problem with it before) and he suddenly jumped as I clipped and off came a huge part of his nail along with the obligatory gallons of blood following the butchering of a dog's quick!

So I did the standard procedure of into the kitchen (with the mop-able floor for obvious reasons), flour on the nail (as I haven't got any of the powder that's recommended) then lots of cuddles and sweets once the bleeding had stopped.

That was at about 11am this morning and I have just taken both of the boys out for their walk. About halfway in the middle of nowhere I noticed his claw was bleeding again and there was nothing I could do. I couldn't possible carry a 26kg dog for another mile and a half! :D

So I got him home and did the same procedure as this morning but to be honest I really didn't expect it to start bleeding again when I took him out as it was a good five hours later. Is there any particular time you should leave exercise for after cutting the quick or is there any aftercare procedures I should do?

Thankfully he's got his booster due on Friday so I'll ask the vet to have a quick look at it then but I can't really stop his walks until then can I? I would usually take him out at about 9am tomorrow morning but I don't really want to risk the bleeding starting up again. Any advice would be great! Thanks!

no idea about the excersize but just wanted to say try not to feel bad, it's very easy done!

I think to make it ten times worse, there has been a new arrival in the house in the form of an HD camcorder...yes, I was being filmed when it happened and yes, I was followed into the kitchen!! I nearly punched the flamin' thing across the room!

oohh i imagine.

Things went from bad to worse. He's re-opened it and it started bleeding worse than originally. Blood everywhere!! I cleaned it up as best I could and as much powder as I was putting on the blood was pushing through. I've now bandaged it all up and he's got a sock on top of that. I can't risk it bleeding again and again so it's all protected for now. And he's still the happiest dog in the world!! I would be kicking up such a fuss!

I'd imagine that the "quick" would have been rubbed during exercise therefore making it bleed again..................I cut the quick on a dew claw earlier this week and had blood everywhere too, fortunately, being the dew claw, it wasn't hitting the ground and we were able to resume normal exercise immediately, but have also cut the quick on a main claw a couple of years ago where exercise made it bleed again, I'd give it a couple of days to heal and then walk your dog on soft ground? ..............I'm useless at claw cutting as you may have now realised!!!! :-D

And I thought I was the dogs bits at it until today!! Thanks for the advice though, Jolene. Shame he can't go out for a couple of days now. So who wants the task of telling a highly-strung husky that he can't go out for two days because his mum cut his claw off?! :-D

This is why I use a dremel :-D My dog used to leap up every time I closed the nail clippers. Got to the point where it was taking me about half an hour to do one paw.

I would heavily bandage the paw and walk him as usual and see how he goes with it.

You need the stick thing men use when they cut themselves shaving, don't mean toilet paper. Stytic or something like that.

Once on the way to college many years ago I passed a business man with about half a dozen little bits of toilet paper stuck all over the lower half of his face Must have forgotten to remove them before leaving home!

Its no surprise that it bled when he walked....walking naturally scrapes the claw. It would be like you scratching a scab off every few hours!  As you have cut into the quick, the blood vessels in the quick are now on the surface and will bleed at any disturbance. I understand that the vessels will withdraw further back as the nail is cut. I would recommend not walking the dog on this nail for 48 hours to allow chance for it to heal...if that is a real problem, then pad it and buy a protective boot for walking. That is the problem with clipping.....I find filing with a dremel safer. When I do clip I always have some styptic powder with me.

in the past when I've done this (it's horrendous isn't it - the guilt!!!) I try to stem the bleeding (I too used flour, nothing else in house) but when it started the next day again (wet grass ya know) I then decided to dry it off as much as possible, then I found an old bottle of clear nail-varnish and put a couple of coats on it, which sealed it

it was fine after that. Not sure if it's recommended, but no adverse effects afterwards so for a one-off I don't see any harm

I bought a doggy-nail-file, but my lot don't sit still for long enough, at least with clippers it's quick, just tend to take less off the black nails and they need doing more often...

That's a brilliant idea DEARLADY. I took him out on soft ground this morning as he had it bandaged all night and this morning it looked fine. There was a bit of bleeding but when we got home it had all stopped. I swished it about in some disinfectant then flour on the claw again, just incase it was still bleeding (although I know it wasn't, the guilt is still there!).

I'll try the clear nail varnish this afternoon, luckily I have some so I'll give it a go and let you all know what happens. Can see what you mean about nail files, there's no way that he would sit still long enough to be filed, he couldn't sit still enough to be clipped! :-D

Many years ago, when this happened with one of mine, my vet told me to scrape the claw on a bar of toilet soap. It has the effect of stemming the blood flow and is antisceptic too.  It has always worked for me!

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Can vouch for the bar of soap idea!  Also, you may think your dog won't sit for a file, but do try a dremel..........I only got one a month ago but wish I had forked out years ago.  Both of my dogs have black claws; the pup is okay with clippers but I've quicked the older dog a couple of times and was having to muzzle him and it was still stressing him.  (Big wooz!)  Anyway, one month on and having played with the dremel with them every day since getting it, I now only have to get it out and the dogs are fighting to get on the chair I use to see who can be done first.  :-)  Yes, copious quantities of treats were used at first to accustom them to the noise and sensation but they love it.  Also, the shape you can get on the claw is much better with a dremel than anything I could ever do with clippers.

Highly recommended.

Silver NItrate woks but I dunno if you can still buy it from chemists etc. 
The only thing is that it stings like mad but really quickly stops the bleeding.  Don't drop it though as it stains things black and is near impossible to remove