Stopping Nails Bleeding - What Are Your Experiences Kwik Stop Styptic Powder?

Ah yes, the infamous short Doberman nails. I say infamous, because I had my dog staying with a Doberman person once, she used a dremel tool to take her nails down to stubs, when I was having to slowly cut them back, because her previous owners had let them grow out. Can't even touch her feet, the poor dear.

But yes, the product is great, I've used it before on my dogs. I try not to cut the too close, but when you're dealing with those crazy large dogs, it gets hard sometimes. Especially when I have eight of them.

But if getting some shipped to you is expensive, see if you can find this stuff called 'EMT Gel' around it works as well, only once when my mom accidently removed one dog's whole nail almost, the EMT gel stopped the bleeding, where the kwick stop failed.

It's also handy to have around, if your dog gets cut and is bleeding a lot, because it stops the bleeding, and helps cuts to rapidly heal.

Kwik-Stop is a good product and I own it, but sometimes I just grab the Dremel or scissor-type nail cutters thinking I won't cut too close. Well, it happens to the best of us, and on a Great Dane, that can be a lot of blood.

I cut too short once and while racing to the kennel room for the Kwik-Stop, I went through the kitchen and saw a container of Metamucil Fiber Supplement, a powder that bulks up stools. I put a pinch on the end of the nail and it clotted INSTANTLY. Now I keep a 35mm film cannister of Metamucil on hand, too.

When i did that with my dog, i threw flour on the floor and he walked threw it a couple of times, and the bleeding instantly stopped.

And I work at an S.P.C.A, where we do surgery, and during the surgery, we clip there nails, and once i clipped it too short, and got the kwik, If you have any gauze wrap the gauze around the nail that is bleeding, and squeeze right under the cut, for a couple of minutes, and it instantly stops.

Kwik Stop has always worked quite well for me. It's pretty much the standard for groomers/show exhibitors in the USA.

im not sure but in the mean time, if you can find a nic stick for people, in the mens shaving cream section , that has the same ingrediants as the stuff your looking for. Also ive found that just dipping the paw in a mixture of flour and water paste works just as well.

Kwik Stop works great. This is a *must have* for any dog owner.

Use a battery operated file. There like 20 bucks at petsmart.

That's what I always use. Works great.