Advice on a nail that was cut too close

You can use a little Vaseline or styptic powder to stop the bleeding.  It shouldn't be a major problem. 

I might try silver nitrate in stick form. You can find it at a drug store in the men's shaving area. I use these instead of quik stop when I do dewclaws. It stings, so be prepared....and it leaves brown staining so DONT touch any fabric with it. You wet the stick then rub it onto the wound. It cauterizes immediately and I've yet to have a nail or small wound it didn't stop up. Alternatively you can use quik stop but PACK IT IN THERE....it takes a lot for that stuff to work IME.

I'd let it be, Lori.  I believe flour will stop the bleeding too if you don't have anything else on hand.
 
Her cut is GREAT by the way!  Love it!

The powder they used was likely Kwik Stop, a styptic powder that you apply directly to the cut nail to control bleeding on minor cuts like that.  You can usually buy it at any pet supply shop in the grooming section - look for the yellow bottle/packaging.  A 1/2 oz jar is only about $5-$6.  Some contain benzocaine, too, which is a sort of mild anesthetic (ie, it helps with any pain/discomfort from the cut itself).

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If you left it alone, wouldn't that leave it open to germs?  Particularly where it's the foot... making direct contact w/dirt and old pee/poop spots.  (yeck!)
 
You're right about packing it in w/your fingertip, but I'd rather do that than expose her to germs and get blood all over my carpets.

Thanks, we were really careful with it for the rest of the day and it seems to have stopped.  I will pick up some of the syptic powder though for future use. 
 
Does anyone here actually cut their own dogs dark nails?  I think I want to do them from now on but I've always been afraid because I can't see where the quick is.  Apparently, neither can the groomer though cause this isn't the first time. 

I've cut my share of black nails and caused them to bleed I always feel so bad after doing it.
 
Dark nails are the worst to cut because you don't see the quick like the white nails. If you do decide to cut Willows nails cut then in small sections until you see a white dot in the middle of the nail. That tells you that your near the quick and stop cutting. Then try to cut across the paw leaving the same length. If you do cut the nail place flour or quik stop on the nail hold for 3 seconds then try to cut the next nail longer then the one before.

I'm not a groomer, but I've cut plenty of thick black nails.  One of the first things people acquiesce in the power struggles with their Dobes is nail trims.  So nearly every Dobe I handled was on the short list for a nail trim.

If you've been keeping up (ie, no dry brittle ends from overdue trims) then straight across the front in small increments (paper thin if you have to) until you see that white Melinda talked about.  Might not always see it, so I typically do one across, then I start almost chipping away at the edges to get as close to the quick and get more of it exposed without nicking it, so it will receed over time.  The idea being I don't have to make a straight end/point.  I want that quick to receed or stay back as the case may be, and trimming the nail around it hastens that.
 
Have you tried a dremmel?  You have to be quick and careful - ie, it gets hot quickly, so you touch it to the nail no more than a second and a half, lift up and check the nail, etc.  I'm not adept enough to hold the dog and do all that, but it's terrific if you have two people on the job - one to hold the dog steady, one to administer the sanding.

Harley has dark nails and I have just started trimming them in the last few months.  I got some clippers with a nail guard and also bought some quick stop.  Luckily, we haven't had to use any yet, but his nails are also longer than they probably should be.  I am doing it every few weeks and trying to get his quick to shorten.  If i take them to the groomer, it doesn'y seem to happen as often as it should.  The nail guard has always prootected him enough except on maybe one nail per foot enough that he doesn't even fight me.  He always lets me know before I have even cut all the way in if I am about to cut too short. 
 
Izzy on the other hand will take about 2 or 3 nails then starts fighting it so much that there is no way for me to do it.  DH refuses to help b/c he is scared I will get the quick.  Just take it slow and steady and probably Willow will let you know if you are getting too close for comfort. 

Agreed - she'll let you know if it's too close.  But just don't mistake that for "I refuse to accept this right now."  When we had dogs like that, they were not going to win the "battle" over feet so they were muzzled as a precaution and we just kept going until it was done. 
Big treat afterward for nice behavior.  []

Jezzy has dark nails, and I do them myself, but I cut a little off at a time to be sure I don't get the quick.  I wil also leave them a little longer sometimes and just do them more often.  I only do this though when she is being a fidget-britches. Due to my neck/back problems, I have started laying Jezz on her back on my lap, cut a nail, feed her a piece of Natural Balance roll, cut a nail, etc.  She is a lot easier to do this way. hehe

I am glad I got a bottle of the Kwik-Stop though, as my parent's dog was over and I did her nails - and of course got the quick. Made me feel horrible, but thankfully Katie forgave me .  

Does anyone here actually cut their own dogs dark nails? I think I want to do them from now on but I've always been afraid because I can't see where the quick is. Apparently, neither can the groomer though cause this isn't the first time.

I cut my own dogs', and other dogs' black nails all the time. I've cut Emma's too short, on several occasions, mostly because she's a brat. I've never gotten Teenie's too short, because she sits perfectly still, and never jerks her paw mid-cut (which can pull the nail enough to cause bleeding).

Most of the time, if you cut just after the nail starts to curve, you won't hit the quick.

I much prefer the Dremel, and now Dremel my dogs twice a week, or so. I don't hear their nails on the wood floors. It's great.

Maddi has some black and some white nails. I always used to compare the black ones with the white ones and then leave them a little longer. I've never cut the quick, but I've now started to use my dad's dremel and it's just to much easier and I don't have to worry about injuring her nearly as much (I set it at the lowest setting and can touch it to my skin no problem). Her back feet are very ticklish though so they are quite the struggle... luckily I only have to do them half as often.