Dew Claws

[aslan]

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OH they are all FINE ... they were fine as soon as they were each back in the basket. But I just think because of his reluctance to do the job he was unsure of himself and took longer than an experienced vet and then put a stitch in each one. So they had to put up with that as well. I don't really think they needed stitches. But there was no bleeding and all seem to be good clean dry wounds.

 

[gajo]

A stitich  each one  (w00t) Never heard they needed that , Poor you Lana having such incompetent Vets out there , first your mums `error`  :rant:   and now this , I cant belive hed find they skin to put a stitch in myself .
As long as hes done a good clean job of it  :luck:

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Never heard of them getting a stitch lana. Poor bubs. You've certainly had a rough trot with vets. Where Jo works, only 1 of the vets will do the dew claws for us, and only younger than 3 or 4 days old.

Some of our vets are actually pretty good Jax- some even went to university( we have them out here too)

 

[JAX]

A stitich  each one  (w00t) Never heard they needed that , Poor you Lana having such incompetent Vets out there , first your mums `error`  :rant:   and now this , I cant belive hed find they skin to put a stitch in myself .
As long as hes done a good clean job of it  :luck:

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Never heard of them getting a stitch lana. Poor bubs. You've certainly had a rough trot with vets. Where Jo works, only 1 of the vets will do the dew claws for us, and only younger than 3 or 4 days old.

Some of our vets are actually pretty good Jax- some even went to university( we have them out here too)

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Gosh I didnt realise you were all THAT civilised :lol: :clown: .

Im sure there are good and crap Vets all over the world , but its a shame we have to find out about the crap ones isnt it . The thing is we put all of our trust into these people to do right by our animals and so often we are let down . When you find a good Vet , keep him/her and spread the word about the bad ones

Ive gone back to my vet of 20 years ago who `semi retired ` :- " He is on his own now , his wife is recpt.plus nurse and he has one assistant nurse , does his own 24 hours too , and CHEAPER than all the others , but if he was more expensive I would still go to Jim . The fact I have to travel 3 times further than before is a minor drawback .

 

[Karen]

Lana how will you get the stiches out. Ive never heard of such a thing. He probably dindnt have a clue what he was meant to do, poor babies. Im sure they were 100% in a couple of mins though :thumbsup:

I do my own, 2 minute job, no fuss, I normally do them just after a feed cos the blood is in the stomach, not that we ever see any much.

 

[Vicky]

We've only ever had one litter done at the vets and that was a litter of 7 springers at the same time as they were being docked, very experienced vet, no probs at all, i think he charged us £5 per pup for dew claws and tails and some had front & back dew claws - BARGAIN. Older more experienced vets are harder to come by these days so it's better to go to someone who's had experience of doing them with their own litters half of the time. Leaving dewclaws on / not done properly is a big pet hate of mine, i could rant all day to those vets who refuse to do it.

 

[nina]

OH they are all FINE ... they were fine as soon as they were each back in the basket. But I just think because of his reluctance to do the job he was unsure of himself and took longer than an experienced vet and then put a stitch in each one. So they had to put up with that as well. I don't really think they needed stitches. But there was no bleeding and all seem to be good clean dry wounds.

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So sorry to hear of your bad experience but i'm sure pups will be fine :luck:

I have always done mine myself within the first 48 hours & never had a problem BUT i had an excellant teacher.

2 dogs i bought in that had been done by vets...................BOTH disasters & grew a dew claw back.

 

[aslan]

I have had vets put stitches in them before ... again it seems to be a trait of the younger vets, straight out of uni.

I will take the stitches out myself. It is very fine thread.

Don't worry about the babies, as I said, they were fine straight afterwards. They are all good and blossoming and Aime is a GREAT mum. More photos on Monday when they turn a week old.

 

[JAX]

Id try oto do my own as Ive seen it done so often , but my problem is getting someone whose not squemish to hold them proberly , OH would be of no use what so ever , her can t even bare to watch be trim their nails (w00t) :- "

 

[Julie D]

our friends have just bought a 14 week old chihuahua, he's gorgeous, I noticed he's still got his dew claws on, would it be better for him to have them removed now rather than wait for a rip to occur ?

 

[saraquele]

our friends have just bought a 14 week old chihuahua, he's gorgeous, I noticed he's still got his dew claws on, would it be better for him to have them removed now rather than wait for a rip to occur ?

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at that age id say leave them ??

if he was to have them removed now it would be a full anesthetic , stitches etc , ( i think ) please ppl correct me if im wrong :blink:

if he is to be neutred later on it would be good to have them removed then or if he isnt then id leave them on :thumbsup:

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[Julie D]

I think he will be neutered later, and he's not going to be hareing around like a whippet :blink: so I think he could wait, that seems sensible, Thanks

 

[chilipi]

Wow. Cropping, docking and removing dewclaws has been all classified as cosmetic here since 2001 and vets are forbidden to do this. I know many still did that illegally (dobe pups were sill sold cropped and docked; it's stopped now because they ruled you can't show a local born local owned cropped-docked dog). So when that law was passed with much heated discussion, one of the arguments was that the whole Europe doesn't do this anymore. So both my whippet and IG have dewclaws. Whippet seems inclined to enjoy lure coursing (unlike IG who thinks this is meet-sexy-girls-place) so we'll see how he does with the dewclaws.

 

[Vicky]

our friends have just bought a 14 week old chihuahua, he's gorgeous, I noticed he's still got his dew claws on, would it be better for him to have them removed now rather than wait for a rip to occur ?

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I really can't see that a chihuahua is going to rip it's dew claws off anyway so i'd be inclined to leave them on.

 

[Isilwane]

Just catching up on this thread and thought I add my experience - for 20 years have never taken dewclaws off my Ridgebacks, have hunted with them and we now live on a 600 acre property that has some pretty rugged terrain and still haven't lost a dew claw.

Five years ago I got into Whippets, had my first litter and didn't take the dewclaws off (mind you someone who purchased one pup who had afghans did have their girl done) my guys run the same terrain as the ridgebacks and they do more than just lurecoursing as they actually chase kangaroos and wallabies both on open fields and through the afore mentioned terrain - still haven't lost a dewclaw (in fact the boy we own who doesn't have dewclaws does more damage to himself cutting stop pads and pads than any of the others) and has it hurt them in the ring - nope, all the show pups are titled, have won In Show awards, have taken classes at Specialties - all under local and overseas judges and I think once have I actually had it commented on and then only in passing.

In this country it was the Ruling bodies that banned ear cropping about 20 years ago, the ban on tail docking was actually legislated and is more recent - I would expect dew claw removal would be targeted sooner or later and without wishing to appear hypocritical I would actually support this where I didn't support the ban on tail docking.

Lisa

Isilwane

 

[05whippet]

OH they are all FINE ... they were fine as soon as they were each back in the basket. But I just think because of his reluctance to do the job he was unsure of himself and took longer than an experienced vet and then put a stitch in each one. So they had to put up with that as well. I don't really think they needed stitches. But there was no bleeding and all seem to be good clean dry wounds.

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So sorry to hear of your bad experience but i'm sure pups will be fine :luck:

I have always done mine myself within the first 48 hours & never had a problem BUT i had an excellant teacher.

2 dogs i bought in that had been done by vets...................BOTH disasters & grew a dew claw back.

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Yes,I agree!!! :b And don't worry I will be doing them myself this next time Nik!!