Sorry I haven't said this sooner. Work intruded onto my ferrety existence. :-(. But thank you for all the wonderful advice on clipping nails. We have determined that Gimble is terrified to have her nails clipped or touched. I don't know why. We've had her since she was 12 weeks old, and we've NEVER hurt her when we clipped nails, but it's like she just decided recently to flip out over this. What we are doing in picking her up and touching her feet when we let her out to play. Of course, she gets a treat after we do this. Then we will work up to touching her feet with the clipper and then actually trying to clip. I know it'll be slow, but I'm hoping this will work. Thanks again for all the advice. Juli, Gyre and Gimble [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2501]