Basically everyone I speak with about caring for their frenchie tells me they hate to try and cut their nails/claws because their frenchie hates it so much. This is no surprise, as it isn’t the most pleasant experience, but trimming your french bulldog’s nails doesn’t have to be an awful experience for both human and dog. You can learn how to trim your french bulldog’s nails in 10 minutes. You can also pick up a couple of really quick tips that will make the process easier with time.
It Is Painful If You Don’t Trim Your French Bulldog’s Nails
Put another way, it’s necessary to trim your french bulldog’s nails/claws for their own comfort, health, and well-being. French bulldogs have thick nails/claws relative to their paw and arm-size, so trimming is all that much more necessary. If you allow your frenchie’s claws to get so long that they begin to take on an arched shape and make a distinct “tapping” noise when your french bulldog walks or runs on hard surfaces, then you’ve let them get way too long.
Cutting Back Your French Bulldog’s Claws Regularly Helps A Lot
Keeping your frenchie’s nails/claws trimmed on a regular basis will force the quick to stop growing so deep into their claws. Regular trimming will prevent the quick from growing out too far if you happen to miss a couple of weeks of trimming/cutting their nails. This is very helpful, but you have to remember and stay on top of your trimming and grooming schedule. Most people just pay a groomer to handle these things once or twice every month-and-a-half, or so. We like to bond with our frenchie babies, so we take up the task on our own.
Keeping Your French Bulldog’s Nails/Claws Short Makes Their Life Easier
Long nails/claws on your frenchie will make something as simple as walking around uncomfortable. Below, you can see a frenchie whose claws are way too long and are beginning to curl under. This is very uncomfortable for your companion and you should immediately begin trimming back their nails a little bit at a time.
How To Trim Your French Bulldog’s Nails the Right Way
Trimming your french bulldog’s nails at home is easy. You just need a couple of things and lots of treats. The key to getting your french bulldog to cooperate with you is to provide a ridiculous amount of praise while you trim their nails, lots of treats, and lots of regularity in the routine. If you trim your french bulldog’s nails once every couple of weeks, religiously, and a little at a time, eventually, your frenchie will pickup on the routine and will associate the nail-trimming with treats and praise.
It’s important to try your best to avoid hurting your french bulldog in this process. The quick will grow deeper into the nail the longer you allow it to grow. If you trim a little bit at a time, you reduce the chances of accidentally nicking your french bulldog’s nail quick. It is very painful and can cause bleeding.
We like to use these nail trimmers. They have a back-stop guide that prevents you from cutting too much off.
French Bulldog NAIL GRINDER
They’re the highest-rated trimmers on Frenchie Shop. We use them in our nail-trimming video. If you accidentally nick your french bulldog’s quick and they yelp, remain calm. You’ll have to do some field triage, but everything will be okay. You want to focus on stopping the bleeding, quickly. The easiest way is to use some styptic powder:
Styptic powder is a clotting agent that will essentially stop the bleeding nail immediately. It’s our go-to product when we mess up and butcher a nail. It works fast and is the best solution. An easy DIY equivalent that’s not as effective is to use a 1:1 ratio preparation of regular ole all-purpose flour and corn starch. It will create a sort of “plug” that will dry around the bleeding nail and stop the bleeding, but our results have been mixed using this DIY approach.
Hello, I have a Frenchie with a white paw which has pink skin. After walks he licks this particular paw until it is irritated and then favors this paw. The vet has told me that he just needs to toughen it up but I am wondering if anyone has found a bootie that fits the frenchie breed or any other advice. I tried the Mushers Secret but he just wanted to lick that off as well.
Esier sad than done when my Fonzie Bulldog the first times screamed like a pig when the nails should be cut.I know it didnt hurt but he think it would hurt anyway.Sometimes it takes time to get the dog used to this and if you are not sure if you cut to deep leave it to someone who knows how to do this when the pain otherwise could get troublesome for your frenchie.
You are correct, sometimes this is a nightmare to do. One of my younger french bulldogs has to be taken to a groomer because she just straight-up bites us when we try, haha.
Hello,
My Frenchie Louis has very dark nails so I can’t see where I have to cut them? what do I do?
Hi very informative blog. Our frenchie Chongster is 10 months female and had her first heat around 6 weeks ago. She’s healthy and a little on the chubby side since the vet instructed us to feed twice a day. A couple hours ago, my daughter dropped one single red seedless grape on the floor and Chong quickly chomped it. We have been so good all this time and we have not fed any poisonous stuff chocolate, onion and by products, grapes or raisins to our pets Tiki, Koda – 16 yr old chihuahuas and Chongster but not earlier. I read blogs all over the internet and it makes me very worried but a the same time really? One tiny grape can be fatal and she should be rushed to the ER tonight. Shes seems to be in good spirits she actually ate a lot an hour before she ate the grape. I read about giving them hydrogen peroxide solution within 2 hours to induce vomiting so that is just what we did. She threw up everything she ate within 10 mins hopefully including that one grape. Has this ever happened to any frenchie owners? I hope shes out of the woods and theres no serious side effect with this episode. – kidney or renal failure. Thanks