My dog's nails are hurting her. Can a vet help without paperwork?
Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Small (up to 22lb) | Female | 8 years and 8 months old | 12 lbs
Hello, my dog is about 8 years old. She is a Maltese mix. I adopted her but do not have her paperwork. Recently I noticed two of her back legs nails (one on each paw) has curled all the way into her paw pad & I can see flesh. She does have a limp but since I’ve had her she does not seem to be in pain. She will barely let me trim her white nails much less the curled black ones, she freaks out. I want to give her proper care but Im not sure she will get serviced without her papers. What can I do ?
2 Answers
Most Helpful Answer
Published on November 6th, 2018
Hi. Any veterinary clinic will see her and trim her nails even if not up to.date on vacciens. She most likely will need antibiotics and pain medications as well. If there is question on vaccines, they can update them again if that helps them. And she probly is in pain if she is limping. Good luck.
1Pet Parents found this answer helpful
Related Answers from Veterinarians
-
Published on January 22nd, 2019
Poor Faith! Definitely plan on taking her into the vet to have her checked for injury or arthritis. Examine her paws very well for injury-look between the toes, around the nails and in-between the paw pads. Look for any injury, redness, discharge or swelling. If nothing is there, then make her rest. No walks, no running/jumping, and try to keep her from going up and down stairs and climbing off/on the furniture. If you can figure out which leg it is, a gentle massage twice daily will help it to feel better until you can get her into the veterinarian. I hope this is helpful. Please feel free to post any additional questions.
1Pet Parents found this answer helpful
I have a small dog since a few months old now she's ollllder. I dont have records owner was suppose to send..never did. Her nails are long.Oh she had 2 shots all I kno. People wont see her cuz of no records ..what to do they are curling under her fee
My 70lb mix has overgrown nails and has started limping... I feel terrible. I started slowly using a Dremel over the past week, she is difficult to keep still. Should I take her in to the vet? She gets very anxious when being groomed.. or should I ju
I noticed he had a curled nail that does not SEEM to puncture his nail, but still looks bad and unnatural, and I noticed he walked with a limp. I was wondering what would be the best thing to do for it, and was to keep him calm as he IS a stray and
sudden trauma to nail caught when out walking. bleeding stopped quickly. still limping three days later. nothing to see. shall we keep bathing and give pain relief? thanks
Hello my shih tzu started limping a little last week. I thought her nails were too long so I took her to have them cut down. Even after that she is still limping. She is not crying when you touch her paw but she does pull it away a little. I can’t ts
Our dog was out running around today and she cracked her nail, it’s the first time she’s ever done it. I know it common but she’s limping on it and she won’t even let me touch it to put some Polysporin on it. Just wondering if you could give us any a
About a week 1/2 ago she was running down her ramp that allows her to run up and down my bed. She ran down and at the bottom of the ramp she whimpered and started limping and lifting her back right paw. We noticed her nails had grown long fast and I
My dog has caught his claw on something and it has split and bent. He licks it occasionally, is walking fine but worries if he thinks we are going to touch it. He doesn't appear to be in pain but was limping earlier this morning. Any advice please?
My 2 year old healthy dog injured her dew claw, but is in pain and too snappy for us to get a good look at it. This occurred last night. We were able to get a light wrap of gauze and tape around injury and gave her 1/4 of an aspirin.Today she is limp
Last night my dog daughter her nail on my bed while jumping off and it partially ripped out. It bled a lot and stopped for the most part. She keeps licking it so it starts bleeding again. It looks really painful as I think her quick is exposed. She w
Book an appointment with the pros – our expert vets are here to help.
