Instructions for taking samples for
Mammal, Bird, or Reptile Hair / Tissue analysis

Have ready 2 labeled sandwich baggies per animal.
(name of animal, date, owner's name, address, phone number and E-mail address.)
Boil a pair of scissors and a pair of tweezers.
Have a Polaroid camera ready.
Rubber gloves.

With gloved hands, from under the arm or wing of the Mammal, in question, clip some Hair, or in the case of a Bird, with the tweezers, pluck a blood feather, or in the case of a Reptile, pull a scale. If a Snake, pull a scale from behind the ear hole.
Carefully place the specimen into one of the labeled baggies.
Take a photo of the specimen with no one or no thing else in the picture.
This is to insure the specimen matches the sample that is sent to me.
I will not do an analysis without a photograph.

Place the photo in the other labeled baggie, and mail both to me, after payment is made on-line, or mail with payment. Be sure to include your return address.

Blood Feather and Reptile Scale Sexing:

Pull a blood feather from under the wing of the bird in question, using a sterilized tweezer.
Place specimen in a labeled small zip lock baggie.
In the case of reptiles, using a magnifying glass and a sterilized tweezer, pull a scale from under the arm of the reptile. If a snake, pull a scale from behind the ear hole on the side of its face. Take a polaroid photograph of the Bird or reptile, and include that with the scale or feather sample. The picture is for my reference file, and my photo album fits Polaroids only.
Mail with the appropriate fee, or pay on line, to:

Doctors Health Supply
261 Conway Drive
Fountain Inn, SC 29644
Be sure to include your return address.

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