Steve and I just got cable for the first times in our lives this week. Tonight on MSG Metro Learning Center's "Metro Pets" we saw a lecture on claw clipping. The speaker was enveloped in a swarm of pets continually weaving around him: birds, dogs, cats, chincillas, and a big male blaze ferret. In fact, the ferret and a pug were the best behaved of those being clipped. When clipping the male he used a trick which I first read about MANY years ago here on the FML from the person who happened upon it (Wish I could remember who it was...): the trick of placing a treat on the belly and letting it be licked off. He casual held the lunker and showed that he did not even need to hold the ferret still since the treat was more than enough to get good behavior. [Posted in FML issue 2494]