How do animals in the wild cut or clean their nails/hooves?
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they naturally wear down while doing their primary activities. For instance horse hooves wear down while running, beaver teeth wear down while chewing bark/wood, etc.
Wild animals are much more active and use their nails/hooves extensively every day to obtain food, chase prey, run from predators, etc. It’s the pampered domestic animals that need assistance keeping their nails and hooves trimmed because their lifestyles are much more sedate and inactive. Food is provided to them in easy to access bowls or troughs, predators are kept away, and they don’t have to travel extensively over rough terrain.
Mostly digging and running
For example: wolves who run to kill their prey or wolves who dig their pray out
Or like. Bears digging out wolf dens