The Bavarian July Toe and Teeth Challenge - with prize drawing!

Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
@snowbunny had the great idea to start a nail care challenge here and I'd like to boost the motivation for continuing it into July with a prize draw! I'm also extending it to tooth/mouth care for those who have their nails done to a 'T' but still would like to join in. What could you win? Something silly, possible completely useless and AUTHENTICALLY BAVARIAN. Yes, sent to you directly from the Land of Pretzels and most likely with some Carbón fur thrown in.

How does it work?
  • Give a shout out here that you'd like in on the challenge here, preferably by 1 July. Add a reason why as well if you want. For example, it's important for me to get Carbon's nails short for some of the SD work he needs to learn like escalators, also I worry how long nails may be affecting his gait/joints.
  • Gather your supplies: nail trimmers or Dremel and/or tooth paste and brush (or your finger).
  • Get lots and lots of yummy sausages ready.
  • Then just jump in and start.
  • On the honour system, keep track of what you did each day. At the end of the month, let me know if you checked off each day in July and I'll enter you in the prize drawing.
  • Easy peasy. :D

For nails it's positive conditioning around feet/nails and/or one nail a day (not more). For teeth it's positive conditioning and/or a short brush session once a day. You don't need to do both (but of course you can) and the whole month could just be making progress conditioning. Keep it positive and keep it short.

We have several R+ trainers on the forum who can help with advice if needed. The rest of us can cheer each other on. :rock:

My bugaboo is nails, so I'll continue to work on that. Here's @snowbunny 's nail thread again for the nail people.

Any teeth cleaning questions, you can stick here. I'm kind of obsessed with teeth cleaning and scale as well as brush them. If you haven't tried it yet, tooth brushing is super easy: what dog doesn't love having yummy stuff smeared in their mouth? Scaling is a little tricker but works a charm.

OK, eins, zwei, drei...GO!
 
Stacia

Stacia

Location
Malvern Worcestershire
I would like to be included in the nail challenge. The reason is Rourke's nails grow very quickly and he doesn't like having his nails cut, so perhaps a 'nail a day' will not be stressful and eventually lead me to be able to cut them all in one go - but not during July of course!
 
HAH

HAH

Moderator
Location
Devon, UK
I’d like to be included please! I was trying @snowbunny ’s excellent challenge but realised we’re actually not there yet, so a helpful nudge to work regularly on small chunks of cooperative care with nails would be very welcome. I’m really keen to get to a stage where I can ask Kipper and with his consent clip nails without lures, bribes or distractions.
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
I'm going to throw you all a bone (see what I did there? :p ) and also add that since it's July and a lot of people are on holiday and traveling, let's say that you are eligible for the super amazing Bavarian prize drawing even if you miss up to five days during the month. Is that fair?

Hopefully that will make it easier to join in.

C'mon, you know you want to do it... :giggle:
 
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