In an earlier post, I described the difficulty our holistic vet had trimming Lightning’s nails a couple visits ago and the approach I subsequently took to counter-conditioning his fear of the Dremel. That has since evolved into a daily routine, probably more about bonding than nail trimming since I don’t take much off each nail. But at our last visit to the vet, she had no trouble getting the nails down to the proper length.

Here’s a video of the way Lightning and I conduct his daily nail trimming nowadays: