#claw caps

[kittycatpaw11]

i need everybody to hear me out on these ship names.

Kitty x Cross — "Vets Office"

Kitty x Dust — "Lint Trap"

Kitty x Xed (my fell!cross) — "Claw Caps"

[ask-a-vetblr]

are claw caps safe for cats?

gettingvetted here.

Yes.

[thecrystalauthor]

Hope was VERY NAUGHTY the other day and shredded my roommates sketchbook. At 6am. So after buying my roommate a new book, I got Hope claw caps! This way she can't scratch, but I don't have to get her declawed (when you declaw a cat, it literally removes their toe bones, and they never walk the same again). Not only are they super cute, but it's a lot easier to show off Hope's extra thumb this way. She was also very good, letting me put them all on with (almost) no struggle.

[littlemeowth]

Does anyone have experience with claw caps for cats? unfortunately my family’s cats were declawed when I was a child, so I have little experience with clawed cats.

[ask-a-vetblr]

Silicon claw caps are really bad for kitties aren't they? My Aunt and Uncle usually declaw their cats, but fortunately I've managed to convince them how horrible declawing is, but now they use those claw caps on their newest additions. I've always been told they're big no-nos because they prevent the cat from cleaning and trimming their claws naturally, and can be just as bad as declawing over time.

gettingvetted here.

I have never heard that claw caps are bad for cats. We regularly apply them for people at my practice and I have plans to get the Christmas themed ones for my own cats this year. I certainly prefer claw caps with any of their flaws to declawing cats, which is illegal in DrFerox's country but not in mine, and my practice performs them (although I refuse).

[gatorcatally]

I need help.

My cat has anxiety but he also has a bad habit of tearing things up, carpet, walls, furniture, people if he’s in a bad mood. I’m not evil so I would never declaw him. So I wanted to try claw caps. I was worried about them originally because CJ won’t even wear a collar. If you try to put one on him, he will bite and claw at his own neck until he’s bleeding to get it off. But we needed a solution to his clawing and we tried everything else. Playing, scratch towers, scratch mats, anything his little heart desires but none of it works. He might use his scratch objects occasionally but more often then not he’s destroying my mothers house.

I thought I would at least try the claw caps, they should be comfortable enough, they wouldn’t hurt at all, no scratching. Etc.

Now, after 45 minutes of struggling to get them on him, one is still on crooked even after reapplying it twice because he wouldn’t stop squirming. I’m worried some are stuck on his fur because again he wouldn’t stop squirming, by the time I got to his last paw he was exerting so many smells (he didn’t spray at least), he was shedding heavily, and when I didn’t let him go he straight up but down on my hand and wouldn’t let go. I had to call my mom downstairs to help me. I gave him some of his favorite wet food as a reward and tried to help him calm down because he was starting to hyperventilate from being held tight for so long.

He’s had them on for less than 30 minutes and at first he was just grooming himself which was normal. He was shedding a lot and it was a new sensation on his claws, I thought he might lick them so I wasn’t concerned. I sat down for a few minutes, and he ran under my bed after I finished helping him groom. He wants space? That’s fine, fair, so I let him go.

Not ten minutes later I hear the plastic clicking and grinding. I looked under my bed and boom, purple claw cap. So I told him to stop and tried to pull him out to make sure he didn’t hurt himself taking it off. A few minutes later, two more were off. At this point, he was trying to fucking swallow the evidence! Obviously they’re plastic and could block his digestive system so I grabbed him by his scruff and dragged him out, getting bitten the whole time, but I had to make sure he hadn’t actually eaten any.

I’ve been sitting on my bedroom floor trying to get him to play to distract him but he keeps running away. He keeps biting them off and I’m worried he’s going to make himself bleed, or worse swallow some, and block his digestive tract. I have to go to sleep soon because I have work in about 8 hours and he’s starting to calm down seeing as he’s no longer trying to eat his claws. I’m worried because I work at night, when he’s most active and I don’t want him to don anything stupid while I’m gone.

I also have bad anxiety and the reason he’s my cat now, and no longer the family cat is because I formally adopted him in college to use him as an emotional support animal.

I have given this cat everything he could ever want, and I love him so much but he makes me worry just as much. If anyone has any advice on how to deal with anxious or stubborn cats please tell me. I feel like I’ve tried everything or at least all the normal things and I need advice from real people not articles.

[chaoszgod]

i don't know why I'm thinking abt this at 11:30pm but if you don't want a pet that's going to claw you, don't get a cat. its that simple. cats have claws. there's no excuse to have a cat declawed. and don't use the claw cap things either. they prevent cats from retracting their claws, which is also bad. don't declaw, and if you don't want clawed, don't get a cat (or any clawed animal for that matter)

[shade-02]

This hit me like a tidal wave, and i need someone to help me find a very specific post i havent seen it in forever but i need to see it now

Its a post bout characters with claws and puting thos cat claw caps over their claws/nails.

At this point im not even sure that its a real post or if its some fever dream that my brain pulled out of the void.

If you do happen to find it please send it to me