[Yorkiemom1]

"The canine nail is comprised of 3 main parts. They are of the quick or the vein and nerve endings that supply both blood circulation and sensitivity to pressure and hot/cold senses of the toe and the foot. Surrounding this very soft, fluid filled center is a pulp, inner nail bed, or layers of soft and moist tissue that helps to protect and cushion the sensitive vein and nerves much as our fatty tissue and subcutaneous makeup does for our own bodies."
According to my vet text books, no artery running down into the nail! Veins, capillaries, collaterial cirrculatory patterns....no mention of an artery that runs down into the quick of the nail!