Clipping a nail to get blood??!? Good God! Would you let your doctor yank out your fingernail or cut it down to the wick to get *your* blood? I had never even heard of this prior to reading the posts regarding it, and my vet would never even consider such a procedure. Nor would I ever go back to a vet who did! On a related note, I once had the misfortune of coming across a vet who, in order to get blood from the *jugular vein* of the ferret we were fostering (not my usual vet, but this ferret's vet, unfortunately), put a tourniquette around the poor baby's *neck*!! Gee, I wonder why she struggled so? <note sarcasm> Of course, this is the same vet who also said that this ferret's fasting blood glucose of 66 was "perfectly normal." Hmph. It was only after I *insisted* that he was wrong and practically *begged* him to double-check that he called someone else who confirmed that 66 was too low, which forced him to (grudgingly) admit his error. Grrrr. -Tasha [Posted in FML issue 2920]