<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">You know, I of course have a theory about this. (I have lots of theories). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
Watch a Vet or a Tech cut nails for a few days. They pick up the foot and pull it out to the side a bit and hold it and cut the nails. This is great if you're a greyhound or even a beagle, but for Bassets, with those short, heavy, crooked legs it isn't so hot. Pulling a Basset leg to the side is just not a good thing to do and I think it hurts them. Do that a couple of times and no Basset is going to forget it. On top of that, the clippers get dull fast and if you cut the nails of, say, ten dogs a day for a week, the trimmers are going to be pretty dull. Vets try to keep enough on hand that they can grab a good pair, but...</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So you pull the leg to the side which hurts and cut those big, thick nails with slightly dull clippers and after about twice your Basset , who is no fool no matter what the "experts" think, takes one look, remembers and says "Oh no....we're through with this s**t."</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">And next time.....BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">And that's my theory.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
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