Do these things cause any problems since they interfere with the normal claw shedding process? I notice on my old girls that some claws don’t always split open naturally and can grow thick and painful if I don’t clip the ends off to help them along.
We used the squirt gun training technique. It is possible they are still of the notion that plants, guinea pigs, furniture, carpet, curtains and Christmas trees have the power to inflict wetness so none of these things are trifled with.
I think you would have to superglue the cat to a wall first 
I see that they have them for dogs. My dog has a bad habit of clawing at us to get our attention. If she is being ignored, she paws at us. This is not appreciated, especially at 5:00 the morning after she’s just had her nails trimmed.
I would love to put some pink ones on her to save my skin, but I don’t know if it’s worth the upkeep or if my parents would agree with the idea. Plus, we’d have to wait until her groomer’s appointment to get them replaced, because she gets really, really upset when we try to clip her nails (only time she has ever tried to bite us).
That’s so odd. I wonder if they’ve changed the glue, or if your groomer wasn’t using enough of it or something?
My caps typically last about six weeks.
True confession time: our cat isn’t much of a scratcher, but I talked to my vet about the Soft Claws mostly out of idle curiosity, but partly because I toyed with the idea of using them as a fashion statement.
Anyway, he said for most cats they are fine, but some small number of cats have funky claw issues and are prone to developing claw fungus with Soft Paws. If I used them (he said), obviously I would have to stop if I noticed any discoloration or other fungus problems, and have them treated by the vet. This could get serious if untreated. My impression from him was that if the cat did get claw fungus, and I treated it right away, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal, I wouldn’t be a crazy cat abuser or anything.
I ended up not doing it, due to laziness.
I have no cats and no interest in them, but I think this is a pretty good work-around to the moral dilemna of declawing them.
My rabbit came with them on–orange ones that were so overgrown that his nails were turned. He doesn’t even need these things. He weighs like 2lbs and has never scratched a thing since I rescued him.
That being said, I recommend the clear ones so you can see the nail underneath. I was terrified to cut them off and snag the quick. :Shutters:
I think the clear ones are easier to apply, because you can see how much glue you are putting in them. It is easier to tell when the colored ones have fallen off. But our cats tolerate them very well - they’ve been wearing them since kittenhood.
She did chew on them to get them off. And claw on stuff. And work on them until she got them off. But it was…10 or 12 years ago. And she was a horrible bitch cat - if any cat could take off softpaws, it would be her. She’s the cat the vet told us we should put on kitty uppers.