I'll bet you ARE having trouble clipping the nails on your sweetie. But try what the real adept hands here on the list shared with me almost three years ago. FERRETONE! That marvelous, oily miracle! A little bit on their tummies, and they are distracted so you can quickly clip the little nails. Works great too at the vets for shots or thermometers in rather indelicate places. At least for my guys, it has. I'd bet that if you ferret doesn't like ferretone, you could try Ferretvite or something "lickable" (i.e., a raisin, although tasty, would probably not do it.....) Say, has anyone else here have ferrets that can tell you the difference between Ferretvite and Furovite? My store was out of Ferretvite and I figured "It's not like they can read." (I've bluffed human kids this way....LOL!) Well, I am now stuck with this tube of Furovite. Even HUBERT won't eat it. That, in and of itself, tells me something. So, Rick or anyone else in the SLC/Bountiful area of Utah need a tube of Furovite? It's only been sniffed. They wouldn't lick the damn thing. I had to smear it on my finger and then in the little mouths to make sure they TASTED it, and then they acted like kids made to eat spinach (or insert despised food item here......) I hate to just waste it if there is a baby who likes it. Catherine, Pato, Snowball, Hubert, and Elsie "Behind The Zion Curtain" [Posted in FML issue 2860]