Keep a bar of white soap like Ivory or something right next to you when you 
clip nails. If you get a bleeder, even if it looks big, try raking the nail 
down the side of the bar of soap. My vet's office mgr told me this one one 
time when I couldn't get a toenail to stop bleeding. I put quickstop on my 
leg one time when I cut it shaving and I will only use it now to save a life. 
It burned so bad! The soap packs the bleeding toenail "wound" and they don't 
seem to fuss as bad over  the soap. Works on beaks that are just filed a tad 
too close too. But not big or open wounds. Use pressure there. BTW, our vet 
told us onetime that applying pressure to a toenail (pinching the toenail 
that's bleeding) must be  CONSISTENT and MAY have to be CONTINUED FOR UP TO 
12 MIN. or more. So don't give up. Also when all else fails tie off the 
verymost tip with a few thicknesses of sewing thread like a tournequet. I'd 
rather save a life than a toe.  I had one quaker that had a thing for 
cockatiel toes....
B.
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