The link suggests that it results in bacterial infections as it causes the nail sheath to fall off sooner than it would normally. How true this claim is, I dunno.
That article also suggests I shouldn’t pick up my cat unnecessarily.
Well, I insist it’s necessary.
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Picking up my cats is required.
Actually I think it’s saying the opposite, that the trimmed husks stay on longer:
OK, so reading for comprehension wasn’t on my to do list today. I got the infection part, though!
Around here we call this “claw snag”, as in “Achilles has a claw snag!” when he has, once again, gotten himself stuck to the chair.
C’mon, you know the rules. A cat thread needs cat pics! Did you happen to take any pics when the poor dear was stuck? 
*** Ponder
Think pouncing, playing and savagely mutilating a helpless prey item on the stairs at two in the morning, making enough noise to wake the humans.
Think said prey item being a runner bean.
I has a kitty! I has him and he can’t get away! Hahahahaha! He huffles and puffles!
Seriously, I think that guy has cats like other people have fish - to look at.
My youngest, Luna is always getting her nails caught in things so I have to trim them. Recently she got a nail caught in a baby gate (in one of the fasteners) and was flailing about crying and I had to free her. Then later she got a nail caught in a hole in a metal pipe bookcase and started freaking out. She has also managed to catch her nails in fabric. I worry she will get a nail caught when I’m not home to free her and rip the whole thing off.
You can’t cuddle fish? That explains so much… 
Yes - fuzz therapy is a major reason to have the buggers in the first place.