My study focuses on developing a mouse model for the type II diabetes, narrowing in on a condition resembling chronic, late-stage diabetes. As such, blood glucose levels would need to be measured consistently over the course of the 16-week experimental period. I will be using C57BL/6 mice. With the welfare of the animals at the fore, I would like to know if it is safe to perform fasting blood glucose tests on a weekly basis. Will it overstress the animals, and perhaps serve as a confound the overall development of the condition?