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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: Hikari]
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11/25/12 01:54 PM
11/25/12 01:54 PM
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nancy1202
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I have a few gliders with thick nails. They can be gradually shaped by carefully cutting a notch on the underside of the curve. The thickness can sometimes be scraped with a fingernail, and it just crumbles. Maybe you can ask the petstore about this when you go. I don't think a wheel insert will help her nails until they have been shaped. The sandpaper will just smooth the sharp tips.
~Nancy~ http://www.derbycitygliders.com
Jackson/Izzie, Lukas/Leilah, Mizuki/Elektra, Oliver/Ava, Ramon/Paloma, Charming/Snow Rest of the menagerie: dogs, cats, corn snake, bearded dragon
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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: Hikari]
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11/25/12 10:34 PM
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Sherri
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Gliders nails are suppose to be shaped? Do they prefer square or oval tips? French or sport cut?
Last edited by Sherri; 11/25/12 10:34 PM.
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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: nancy1202]
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11/26/12 02:59 PM
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yiyo
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I have a few gliders with thick nails. They can be gradually shaped by carefully cutting a notch on the underside of the curve. The thickness can sometimes be scraped with a fingernail, and it just crumbles. This intrigues me. I get thru my nail trimming pretty quickly but they certainly get no sort of manicure. How do you manage to accomplish this?
Alyssa
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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: Hikari]
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11/26/12 03:00 PM
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Hikari
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I was messing around with her nails last night after they were cut and I put a little v in two of them and left the other ones that were thick. I'm kinda experimenting to see if regular trims, a good diet will change them, if they bother her, and all that stuff. Since they were all trimmed she is walking much better, but poor little girl fell off of me a few times because she is not used to having short nails. The pet store said they have seen nails like hers before mostly in rescues, and they said just to trim regularly and make sure she is getting a good diet. That is another plus for that pet store most of the employees are not pellet pushers and know that gliders need a better diet. Thanks for all the helpful responses!
MalcolmZoë KayleeThere's no place I can be since I found Serenity, you can't take the sky from me...-Firefly
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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: yiyo]
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11/26/12 03:33 PM
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nancy1202
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Silly girls! Yep, some gliders' nails need to be shaped, especially when they have been neglected for a long time. Check this out. This little rescue needed several manicures before his nails looked more normal. I'll try to get a pic of some of my gliders' normal length, but thicker nails in a day or two.
~Nancy~ http://www.derbycitygliders.com
Jackson/Izzie, Lukas/Leilah, Mizuki/Elektra, Oliver/Ava, Ramon/Paloma, Charming/Snow Rest of the menagerie: dogs, cats, corn snake, bearded dragon
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Re: Thick nails?
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11/26/12 05:02 PM
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norton33
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Silly girls! Yep, some gliders' nails need to be shaped, especially when they have been neglected for a long time. Check this out. This little rescue needed several manicures before his nails looked more normal. I'll try to get a pic of some of my gliders' normal length, but thicker nails in a day or two. I think I remember this exact picture from when I asked this question! If it's any encouragement, our little Leela now walks normal (she had a very strange walk) - and her nail 'thickness' as actually gone back to normal on all except for one back foot. Just trim a tiny bit, even often to help the quik recede... we did just the tips about once a week or once every 8-9 days until she was normal. Looks great now. Good luck, and congrats! Your glider will do just fine.
Jason -------- Norton Trixie Leela Stella Penelope Ally
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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: Sweet As Suggies]
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11/26/12 07:29 PM
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nancy1202
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Yeah, you should have seen the huge open wound on the back of his neck. It healed beautifully and he went to his new home in 3 or 4 months. Sadly, he passed there, but he was loved and cared for. His name was Dallas. Connie/suggiemom1980 remembers him, I'm sure.
~Nancy~ http://www.derbycitygliders.com
Jackson/Izzie, Lukas/Leilah, Mizuki/Elektra, Oliver/Ava, Ramon/Paloma, Charming/Snow Rest of the menagerie: dogs, cats, corn snake, bearded dragon
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Re: Thick nails?
[Re: Hikari]
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11/26/12 07:59 PM
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sugarlope
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Thick nails in gliders can go back to 'normal' and helping shape them does help. Whenever I have come across nails that are thick or growing strangely, I clip at a severe angle back towards the pad of the toe. I have heard that notching helps in some cases as well (same idea - get rid of the thickness at the base). I don't know why, but shaping has seemed to help more or more quickly than just blunt cutting them, in my experience.
Nutritional changes/deficiencies, change in environment and neglect of trimming can all cause nails to grow like this. (Again) in my experience, the thick nails have tended to grow faster and needed more regular trimming than 'normal' glider nails.
~Gretchen
If we never loved, then maybe we would never feel pain. Love anyway. It's worth it.
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