Click, click, click down the hallway. You hear it every day and you've stopped noticing it.
But it means something specific: the nails are reaching the floor before the paw does. Every step pushes the nail back up into the toe instead of letting the pad carry the weight the way it's built to. The dog compensates, redistributes, and walks a little differently than it otherwise would.
It isn't a crisis. It just isn't nothing — and it's the easiest sign in the world to read. If you can hear the clicking on a hard floor, the nails are too long right now.
