Elderly dog cries in pain as he walks on “longest claws our staff has ever seen”

As soon as a dog’s claws touch the ground, they should be trimmed by a qualified professional, such as regular claw trimming keeps a dog happy, healthy and balanced, writes ilovemydogsomuch.

Long nails on a dog are painful and the equivalent of walking on very high heels all day. No dog should have to suffer the pain associated with uncut claws. The folks at the Humane Society in Marion County, Florida, recently encountered a stray dog with the worst claws they had ever seen.

The 10-year-old Labrador mix arrived at the shelter in terrible condition Condition. It was full of lumps and had the longest nails shelter workers had ever encountered. According to a Facebook post, “Some of Docena’s nails were so long that they started twisting and rolling painfully around each other.” The only way the dog would have ended up like that would be pure neglect. No one knows how long she was alone, but they do know that her nails were in desperate need of care.