Our solution to the clipping thing was to have one person hold the fert on the lap, with the fert's back to holder's tummy. Holder put one hand under the front legs & uses other hand to dispense copious amounts of FerretVite. Other human begins with back feet, with ball of hand lightly pressed against fert belly, pull one leg out at a time to clip nails. For front feet, holder helps by holding each front foot at elbow while clipper holds at the toes. The great secret is definately a continuous stream of FerretVite. We found that this works much better (and is less messy) than FerretTone. Lots of hugs & kisses to fert when task is accomplished. Good luck! Aileen & the herd Slinky, Gizmo, Kyle, Noel, & Sandy [Posted in FML issue 2495]