Nail bed lengths specific to breeds?

when the nails grow out then the quick does too. need to clip until the quick moves back. clip and then clip again in about a week. do this until they have moved back.

also a lot of walking on concrete will help.

Not that I've ever noticed.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if there was an indirect correlation though.

What do I mean by that?

Well its well understood (or at least commonly believed --- I haven't directly confirmed this point or read studies that confirm it, but its often repeated) that if you don't cut your dog's nails for a long time, the quick will grow longer, meaning that you can't cut them as short as you might like.

Its also true that some dogs seem to have harder nails than other dogs, or at least some don't wear them down as much as other dogs do, and so require trimming more frequently (with my own dog, I haven't cut his nails for almost as long as I can remember, and even then it was only his dew claw).

Its therefore not unreasonable that some dogs, who have harder nails, or nails that grow faster than those of other dogs (or don't wear them down as fast), might end up with long nail beds *secondary* to needing their nails trimmed more often than other dogs (and not getting it done as much as might be ideal), and this *could* have a breed predisposition.

Dale

*edit: The other thing that occured to me, is that with some breeds, the nails are simply more prominant/easier to see, than on other dogs, so people might see your dog's nails, and be tricked in to thinking they are longer than they really are.

It's not really breed specific. If you don't trim her nails regularly, the quick will grow out longer and longer making her nail beds longer. If she walks on a hard floor and you can hear her nails clicking, they are too long.