Re: RE: [pyrnet] Re: pyrnet-l-digest.20011008

["Ann K. Wetherilt" <wetheri@emmanuel.edu>]

pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org writes:
>our vet insists they need to be taken 
>off, and the dog trainer at Pet Smart insists that double dewclaws are
>"the 
>mark of inferior breeding", 
Neither your vet nor the Pet Smart trainer knows anything about Great
Pyrs--it's part of the breed standard. Occasionally they'll catch a dew
claw, but in my experience no more so than any other claw, and with no
more serious damage or complications. Follow your own instinct and leave
them alone!!
Ann, Peg, Ivy Rose and Tori