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Short Claws, Healthy Paws

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Short Claws, Healthy Paws

Mobile Nail Trimming for Dogs. (We also trim claws on Cats & Exotics)

01/17/2025

Too cute not to share... Have a great Friday everyone! See a few of you tomorrow! Anyone needing appointments, please text me at 509-654-5429 and I'll find you a spot. (I'm still not able to do walkup nail care sessions due to my arm/hand injury, please bear with me!)

01/13/2025

We are taking a few people on Wednesday the 22nd. For fastest reply, please TEXT 509-654-5429 to schedule. I am still very limited due to my arm injury, so I appreciate everyone's patience as I try to accommodate!

01/12/2025

Hi everyone, just to clarify: I am NOT able to do any walk-up sessions yet. My left hand impairment requires me to schedule any dogs I see very carefully in order to allow rest and stretching. I simply cannot perform the fast pace and intense rigors of walk-up nail care sessions with my hand only half functional. So if you see me parked, please understand it's appointment-only until further notice, or if you see a sign board outside my work trailer saying otherwise. Thank you for understanding. Preferred method is for you to TEXT 509-654-5429 to schedule with me. If you leave a VM you must leave your phone number in the message. Thank you everyone! I'm doing the best I can to get everyone cared for! 🐾❤️🐾

01/10/2025

It feels good to post one of these again! Day one back after the injury, I'm slow and struggling with lack of strength in this left hand, but I'm making a comeback!

NOTE: Dear Customers who have left voice messages, please understand that you must leave your phone number. When I have 15+ calls that come in, I cannot tell whose phone number is whose if you don't leave it in the voice message. There are several people that I cannot get back to because they did not leave a message, probably assuming that my caller ID would be sufficient.... but it's Not when there's a whole group of messages to go through... it takes too long to figure out who's number is whose. So if I am not returning your call, please call back and leave your phone number--or text me! Thanks! 🐾

01/09/2025

A quick note to my customers: Please understand as I try to get back to work that my left hand (my paw gripping hand) is SUPER weak. The nerve damage has caused half my hand to remain numb and dysfunctional. The former-me who could trim and dremel 25 to 30 dogs in 4 hours is not back yet. I will be slower until fully healed. If I run a little late going from one dog to the next, please be patient! This will be a process figuring out what I'm capable of as I try to come back! Thank you all! 🐾❤️

01/07/2025

Happy to announce I'm booking a few doggies this Friday. I'm not yet able to take-on the rigors of my normal workload and walk-up days, so I'm booking appointments only. I have reached out to a few people about Friday so far. (Those of you I've spoken to recently about this day, please check your message inbox!)

I will continue to book appointments as my hand tolerates, so please text 509-654-5429 or message me here to set up. Again, I do not have the hand strength, stamina, and coordination to do my regular busy walk-up sessions yet, so scheduling is required. 🐾🐾

12/27/2024

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas, and here's to a happy and prosperous 2025! I will be posting some available hours after the new year holiday, but will only be taking limited-bookings while my hand returns to normal function. (There's no way I can take on the full-load of a busy workday yet, so please bear with me!) Hopefully I'll work up to a full slate very soon. Watch for my January schedule and openings which will be posted on the 2nd!

Again please understand when I reopen, I'll be taking a small group of dogs only each workday, since my hand function is still very limited, and some days are better than others. Thank you all for your patience and understanding! Looking forward to seeing you! Happy New Year to everyone!

12/16/2024

Hi everybody, just checking in again. I hope all doggies and their humans are enjoying this beautiful snowy Monday! I'm still working hard to recover full strength of my left hand following this dog bite injury. Just waiting on the nerves to recover further. I'm experiencing pretty significant muscle spasms when I try to grip anything for more than a couple seconds. As aggravating as it is, it is probably a good thing, because I would think it means the nerves are coming back--they're just not sending the messages properly yet. I do notice I have a tiny bit of feeling in the very tip of my ring finger today which is absolutely new! Thanks again to everyone for your patience...I am trying really hard to get back to taking care of all your pups and other critters!! ❤️🐾 Deanna

11/27/2024

I had a recheck with orthopedics today and vented some frustration to the surgeon who operated on my bite wound. He said the following: "It is a very serious bite that has the force great enough to break off a chunk of your bone. The ulna (which is the bone the dog bit) isn't a small bone either! That's a tremendous crush-injury for the dog to actually bite a chunk of the bone off it. The damage to the muscles and other tissues is substantial in this injury. It's going to take time to heal. As hard as it is, you have to be patient." He also told me that "the ulnar nerve is one of the slower nerves to heal." He said that they often refer to it as "the lazy nerve," because it takes longer than some of the other nerves to regenerate once it's injured. He wants to see me again in 60 days...in the meantime, I am supposed to continue physical therapy. He also assessed the strange snapping and clunking I have developed in my wrist because of this bite wound, and he said it is too early to know if it is something that will heal on its own, or if it will need an MRI and additional surgery. The trauma to the bone has left the ulna lumpier and larger than it used to be, so there is a likelihood that one of the tendons is actually catching and slipping out of place because of this. And so, I wait.... I keep looking forward to that day where I have a great update and can say everything is really looking up, but I'm not quite there yet. Still taking baby steps forward on my healing journey. Thanks again for the continued patience. I am doing EVERYTHING I can to get back to all my customers! ❤️🐾

11/21/2024

I just opened the mail and what a surprise! Such a darling card to receive! Thanks Judy, Dave, and my buddy Birch for making me smile! This is so adorable and certainly brightened my week!

Thanks to all of my loyal customers and friends for your kindness and patience during this time. I'm hoping to see a couple customers next week, (those who have been with me for a long time, where I've had the time to train their dogs to stand happily for care). I figure if I can get back at one or two dogs a day, it's a start. It will be a while before my left hand will be able to hold onto the less-than-cooperative ones, however. And it'll take my nerve function abc strength to recover more before I can manage the cadence of a walk-up session. But I gotta start back somewhere! I'll keep everyone posted. 🐾❤️

11/20/2024

Hi everyone. I'm still trying to get full-use of my hand back after the forearm bite. It's been rough. Thanks for your patience. I will be back!!! (Soon hopefully, even if it's in a limited-booking capacity.)

I decided to take a moment in this downtime while I heal to share some things for dog parents...

In handling over a thousand individual dogs a year, I've observed the following things:

1. I've never seen an anxious person with a calm, socially well-adjusted dog. (Your dog is a mirror of you. Be a good, healthy leader.)

2. I've seen hundreds of people complain that their dogs ride in the car poorly, barking, being obnoxious, even having car sickness, etc. When I ask how often they take the dog out of the home/property, all of those people say "rarely ever because the dog behaves so poorly". (Dogs are not born socialized and experienced in traveling away from their secure environment, they must be taught.)

3. I've seen countless dogs dragging their owners across parking lots in harnesses that are nearly coming off, and I go out to help the person. I put a collar on their dog and work with them for only a few moments, and suddenly the dog is respectful. When I ask the owners why they don't use a collar on the dog, they always reply, "my dog doesn't like collars, he/she fights them." (Dogs are not born trained. They have to be taught what the correct behavior is. And this includes how to GIVE to pressure rather than pull against it.)

4. In over 90% of the dogs I see, I'm told that the dogs "cannot be trimmed", that they "hate nail care" and "everyone who has tried to trim them has struggled or failed"....

Again, dogs are not born trained. If you are attempting anything with your dog where you lose and the dog gets his/her way, even at the smallest level--in handling the paws, for example--you are teaching the dog that they do not have to do things the correct way. You are as much a part of your dog's bad behavior as the dog is.

For those of us in the animal healthcare field, I would like to share this information in hopes that dog parents will start to think more about the things that they are doing (or not doing) with their dogs that play a direct role in the resulting behaviors.

There's no such thing as a dog who won't allow their nails to be trimmed/ground without human error and major training failures along the way--It's a human-made problem. Every dog I've handled/trained consistently has learned to accept nail care. The ones I start from the beginning never fight it at all. It's just a part of life. My own dogs stand willingly or lay on the floor and enjoy the process while I trim and grind them. Many of my consistent, regularly-scheduled dogs have gone from being absolute terrors to lying down on the grooming platform without a care in the world while I give them their nail treatment. I encourage people to start with a good professional when their dog is a puppy BEFORE there are any battles lost and any bad training put in.

BUT it is a larger picture than just that--and here's the part most people miss--if your dog is disrespectful in other ways, on a leash or a collar for example, why are they going to respect any other form of necessary control? They won't. And in places like the vets' office, or a groomer, or a nail technician's shop, control is necessary. I've never seen a dog who behaved well (was trained properly) on a collar and leash that was terrible or dangerous for nail care. And yet, people who have dogs that do not respect them on a leash, where the the dog is the one in control, act like it's shocking or that it's the dog's problem that they won't stand well for a groomer, vet or nail care. You are the trainer--What are you teaching your dog about respect and manners?!

I hope everyone remembers that love, respect and discipline all go together. You're not loving your dog more or doing a better job if you never show them guidance, structure, and how to be good citizens. Your dog's failures are YOUR failures. Get help if you need it from true professionals, not google or Facebook forums, please! One of the beautiful things about dogs is that they can learn new things and better behaviors...but it starts with you!

Thanks for reading. And see you soon!

Deanna
Short Claws Healthy Paws 🐾

11/11/2024

With much honor, respect, and gratitude...

11/07/2024

Hey all, lots of people have been asking so here's the latest: half of my left hand is still numb...numb as in can't close my grip effectively around anything and no feeling yet. I'm doing physical therapy. Doctors keep telling me to "be patient" while the nerves grow back. --That's easier said than done as you can imagine. I now have a strange "clunking" that's going on in my wrist. Apparently from some instability (that is new, was never there before). Hand clinic folks added a wrist wrap that squeezes my ulna and radius together a bit and it helps some. I am currently in a new and strange muscle-spasm-Charlie-Horse phase. I'm hoping that's a good sign as maybe that means some life is coming back, but it is sometimes excruciating. When I'm trying to do the exercises, my hand and forearm seize-up. I spend quite a few minutes manually pulling the hand and fingers back and rolling it over a massage bar. I'm waiting for a call back from orthopedics for some further info. Maybe a nerve study is next. I don't know yet. I am doing all my exercises faithfully that the therapists have given me to trying to regain hand coordination and strength. As soon as my grip strength returns enough that I can work, I will be back, but... dang this is going slow compared to what I'd hoped for.

I have shared this with some people, about five years ago, I had a bite that went all the way through my hand in two places-- I could stick a Q-tip all the way through one side of my hand and out the other when cleaning the wound...but it did not hit anything vital and I never missed a day of work. One would think a direct bite to the hand versus the forearm would be more debilitating, but that is absolutely not what's happening here. Nerves are strange things.

Unfortunately in this bite wound just below my wrist, the large canines cut through the area where my ulnar nerve is. The doctor who performed my surgery said to me--quite emphatically--that I was very lucky that the dog did not completely sever the ulnar nerve. He used the word that he was "amazed." Then all the infection, all the swelling, and the scar tissue having been cut and scraped off of the nerve during the surgery, and whatever else is going on in there now for new scar tissue... it just has the ulnar nerve really irritated and dysfunctional. (So I'm told.) I wish I could give some timeframe to everyone who is asking when I will be able to return to work, but I don't know that yet. As soon as my hand is functioning to where I can hold onto paws effectively to do my job I will be back!

Thanks for hanging in there, my dear customers at Short Claws, Healthy Paws. I'll be back, I PROMISE!!!!

10/28/2024

Hi again everyone. I'm doing more physical therapy tomorrow to continue working on regaining strength and hopefully the feeling in my left hand. Half my hand is still totally numb from the injury to my ulnar nerve. The therapists at the hand clinic are working with me to do exercises to try to rebuild the grip strength and also control through range of motion. I wish this was moving faster. I'm doing my best to keep my spirits up, but this sure has been a devastating blow. Thanks for all your kindness in this tough time... ❤️Deanna

10/22/2024

Thanks for all the encouragement, support, and hanging on with me as I go through this awful injury and recovery... I'm starting physical therapy tomorrow. I will be back in action to take care of your dogs and cats and critters as soon as I have the strength and range of motion restored. As you all know, my left hand is everything for my job--I can't do anything without it. I'll hope to have some promising updates soon. This has been a lot of waiting and unknown. I hate being a letdown--Please know I'm doing everything I can to be back as fast as possible!

10/19/2024

Hey everyone. I'm still plugging along trying to get healed up. Working hard to recover movement of my hand. My range of motion is extremely limited and I can't rotate at all even for something as simple as opening a door...quite depressing that this is currently impossible with my left hand. I'm also trying to do some exercises to begin to regain grip strength. Physical therapy begins officially on the 22nd.... What a frustrating ordeal! Thanks for those of you who have continued your kind words of support.

10/15/2024

I need some cheer, friends. It's been a month since my awful bite wound... This healing process is so slow and stressful. Could you post in the comments below some pics of your pups doing cute things? ...or times when they comforted you during an injury?! I'd love to see some of your cuties. And it would be fun for everyone contributing to see each other's furkids, rather than private message where only I will see.

The pic I posted is Doss boy sucking on a blanket, snuggling with me the day after I got home from surgery. These pups are getting me through a very lousy time. Those of you who know, just know...dogs are ministering angels! And thanks to all you who've been such a blessing to me during this awful time! ❤️❤️❤️

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Yakima, WA

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	8:30am - 12:30pm
Sunday	8:30am - 12pm

Telephone

+15096545429

Website

http://www.shortclawshealthypaws.com/

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Videos

WALK-UP NAIL CARE at RANDALL DOG PARK: THURSDAY 9/5: 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Before & After

Come see us...your dog will thank you! We will be posting this week's walkup schedule on Tuesday, so check back in!

Wednesday 8/14 WALK-UP NAIL CARE at Randall Dog Park: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bring a friend who's a first time customer to SCHP and receive a 10% discount this Wednesday only! Watch for our upcoming posts for additional walk-up sessions later this week, or visit shortclawshealthypaws.com and view the calendar page for this week's walk up schedule.

What a fantastic little lady! She was a trooper and so kind! Thanks Nathan for bringing her in! (I'm trying to tag you)

Results!

Cute little fella named Buddy came in for his first session with us...check out his before and after images! So much comfort for this nice boy!

Lameness and long claws...

Nail care for pets is not just about protecting floors, furniture, and human skin, it's truly about the best health and quality of life for your dog!

The Short Claws Healthy Paws difference!

Not all trims are created equal... Short, rounded, smooth--come see for yourself, your dog will thank you!

Short Claws Healthy Paws

We love dogs and their best care and quality of life is our mission! Share this little video with your friends who may not know how important nail care is... and how proper professional nail treatment should look! We are currently taking private bookings/house-calls for this week's schedule. Contact to set up! Some of the results from Short Claws Healthy Paws nail care (trim with skilled, knowledgeable grinding): 1. Pain relief for pets! Long claws press into the ground, causing joints in the paws to become sore. Overtime, this can lead to lameness, even arthritis! 2. Many pets become more energetic, even playful again when we make them comfortable on their feet! 3. Traction on hard floor surfaces improves. 4. Reduced likelihood of painful nail breaks! 5. Reduced snagging on blankets, furniture, clothes. 6. Fewer scratches to human skin! 7. No more clicking sound of claws on hard floors!

Another before & after showcasing the Short Claws Healthy Paws difference!

Walk-up nail care Saturday 7/27 at Randall Dog Park: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm! The AC will be on filtering out this dreadful smoke. We are ready to take care of your furry friends!

What's your trim look like?!

We see dogs so often that have "fresh trims" done elsewhere that didn't remotely shorten the nails enough! This sweetie came in today with a 4-day-old trim that looked like he hadn't been trimmed in months. Knowledge about the nail anatomy and understanding of each individual dogs' nail conformation enables a proper professional trim! Short, rounded nails are healthy for dog paws (and also better for their human companions' skin)!

Nail Care transformations...

Come see us, we will be making stops at Randall Dog Park (corner of 48th and Washington) on the following days for walk-up nail care sessions: Saturday 6/15: 10:30 - 2:30

Walk-up Nail Care

Walk-up Nail Care Sunday 5/12: 11:30 - 3:30 at RANDALL DOG PARK! Come on in! Trim with grinding for the shortest, smoothest trim! Have you checked out our "before & after" photos?!