I’m probably late to the party but in case anyone is totally out of the loop like me lol… My vet suggested training my dog to use a scratch board for filing his nails. This gizmo is life changing 
It took me like 3 sessions of about 5 minutes each to teach him to do the fronts. I’m sure hinds will take a little longer. He actually likes doing his nails now. I realized I’m going to have to put it away and out of sight- this weekend, he looked at me, walked over to where I had it stored, scratched it and then stood there until I came and rewarded him lol.
Seriously though- if you have a dog that is stressy about nail trims, the scratch board is definitely worth a try
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They are easy to make with sticky stair treads on a board. I think my dogs are slightly adverse to it but they tolerate it in short increments.
I have no interest in training them to work the hinds. It’s more effective for me to trim and dremel. It’s a great tool/trick for those who are not able to trim.
Yeah I wish I had just made one instead of Etsy-ing it but hey the one I got was purple so… lol
My guy is the total opposite, I can trim/ dremel them but it’s a huge stressful event (and I have put mountains of effort into making it not be) but he is super enthusiastic about using the board. We started working on learning the back feet last night but I think I’m going to have to modify it a bit from the way they suggest to teach it with him being so big
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