Soft Claws Nail Caps for Medium Cats – (40 Caps, Pink) - Veterinarian-Developed | Protects Furniture & Skin - Easy to Apply, Long-Lasting Anti-Scratch Soft Cat Claw Covers

Update!!: it’s 2020 my sweet boy turns 6 this year. I STILL LOVE these. He’s gotten to where some months he won’t even notice they fell off for awhile and won’t even bother scratching at things. However, once he notices. Man, he goes all out. He is now a big (healthy) chunker that weighs 18 pounds. I alternate between large and medium for him and medium for his now girlfriend who weighs about 8-10 pounds. They both try to take them off as soon as I put them on. However, after a few minutes they have forgotten about them again. Original post: I absolutely love these! I started using this product about 4-5 months ago. I wanted to give it enough time before, I wrote a review. So here's my story: My sweet kitten just turned one in June and was getting/ tearing up everything! Trimming his nails didn't help, a big scratching post didn't work. Absolutely nothing helped. My fiancé started to push for us to declaw him just because, the cat was getting very out of hand. However, since I'm not big on declawing I went to the Internet! These are what I've found! I've ordered both a small and a medium of these and have found that medium work best. Id say if the cat is younger than one get small, any older it's best to get medium. The Good: -Basically what these are, are rubber caps that go onto your cats nail. They do not hurt them and for the most part the glue holds strong. It's a special glue that won't hurt the animals nails. Nor will it damage anything. They are still able to use their nails however, they arnt nearly as sharp. The Bad: - I've noticed on some of these reviews they complain the nails don't stay long enough or stay on to long. I have had a situation with both. I have learned it truly varies on two things: how much glue you put into the nail and how fast your cat's nails grow. Be sure to trim the cat's nails before putting the nail caps on that way they get the longest life span possible. Sometimes, My cat will lose a nail cap after a week of me putting them on. This has nothing to do with the product. It just means my cat was to fidgety and I didn't put as much glue as I needed too. Some of the nails are different sizes. So make sure that the bigger ones go on the bigger nails (obviously). The Ugly: - There was one time that I had notice my cat had two nails stuck longer than any of his other nail caps ( about two months). I had already replaced all the other ones at least once. However, those two were stuck like some of the horror stories suggested in previous reviews. To be honest it isn't a huge deal. It just means for some reason they stuck better. I learned that to get those two nails that were “super stuck” off. All you have to do it get a cotton ball with nail polish remover on it and rub the cats stuck nail cap until it pops off. It took only a matter of minutes. Also, it is notable to mention the glue dries very quickly. I've learned not to put the glue cap back on. Otherwise, you will never be able to open the glue again. I just put it in a sandwhich bag away from everything until my next use. Also, it does NOT rip out the nail!!! What you see when the nail falls off is dried glue that came up when it fell off the cats nails. Overall, I highly recommend this product to anyone considering to buy it. I've only had to buy two packages in all the months I've been using this product. Great price for the quantity and quality!

I actually put these on my cat's back legs toenails because she was scratching her face and neck with them so severely that she was bleeding and getting crusty scabs. I cut her back toe nails but still when she scratched herself, which wasn't very often, just a little bit a day, she still did a bunch of damage to her skin. And I know for a fact it has nothing to do w/ fleas because I always make sure I put on advantage multi once a month. And even the vet said she didn't see any fleas or flea dirt. So the next reason they look for the scratching is allergies. The problem is the allergies if not from fleas, could be from just about anything: pollen, dust, something in their food. My cat only goes outside for about an hour a day and it's always in my little fenced off courtyard. And my house is always super clean. So I switched her to cat food for cats with allergies. And while it helped her somewhat, it still didn't help her from giving herself scabs. I had already spent hundreds of dollars at the vet trying to figure out the cause of the itching but to no avail. And maybe if I spend hundreds and hundreds more, we might find the cause. But still the cause may never be discovered. So while I wanted to stop the scratching, my last resort was to just stop her from hurting herself when she does scratch. So I tried varies anti-itching pills including benadryl, but they all caused her to throw up. So, I ordered these just for her back toe nails (I could care less whether or not she scratches my couch slip cover.) I didn't have a lot of expectations, but boy have these exceeded my expectations. They are easy to put on; I did it myself. But I did have her wait 15 minutes, even though the instructions say 5 before running around just to make sure they were on, and that was the only hard part, because as soon as I was done she wanted off my lap. One fell off after 2 days, but that's just because I didn't put enough glue one it. I was able to find it and reglue it and now it is still on her. I've had them on her now for about 2-3 weeks and all of the soft claws remained on, except for one, but that was because it was that natural time for the nail to shed. So, just like the soft claw was supposed to, the soft claw came off and you could see the part of the nail that shed still in it. They look so cool, and serve a great purpose. I got the color pink, but the pink is more like an orangish pink rather than a hot pink, which I would have preferred. But I really can't complain. My cat is now scab free and it is all due to Soft Claws. Thank you for the person who invented this, because it really saved my cat from hurting herself.

I was about to set an appointment to declaw my 5 lb, four month-old kitten when I decided to try these out. I have two fully grown declawed indoor cats, but I always felt bad about the process. The Soft Paws were so inexpensive I thought it was worth a try. I ordered the small size in red for my black cat so it would be easy to tell if they came off. Rodney is a wild man, but besides guilting me out with sad, betrayed eyes, he didn't give me much trouble. My husband applied the glue to the gel caps and I applied them to Rodney's claws. I had to do it in two sessions, however, because the first three caps had too much glue in them. His long toe hair got stuck to his real nails and I couldn't get them on. I had to give him a few days to work off the glue before I could glue them successfully. You should only apply enough glue to fill about a third of the cap. I kept him distracted for a few minutes to let the glue dry and he didn't seem too concerned with the sensation. When he did fuss with them they stayed on. There is a video on YouTube by a veterinarian who demonstrates the process. Over a week later, he still has them on, despite using his scratching post and tearing around the house on turbo. I suspect Soft Paws work best on young cats, but, for the price, it's worth trying on any cat before putting it through a declawing. I will definitely keep using them. UPDATE--5 Weeks later: I have used about 20 of the 40 caps in five weeks, so on average I am replacing them at a rate of 2.5 per week. I don't know if that is the normal rate of claw loss for a 5 month-old, super-active kitten, but since they are red they are easy to spot on the floor and sometimes have partial claw still in them. Other times, though, the now unprotected claw looks suspiciously smooth and new. Since my cat is pretty understanding about the whole process and I usually do just one per "session," I can do it alone, so this is an acceptable inconvenience for me. HOWEVER, the 6 included glue applicator tips are woefully insufficient for 40 gel caps since Rodney will NEVER lose enough claws at the same time that so that I can replace them all in a large batch with one disposable applicator. I would run have run out of applicators in the first couple of weeks. Anticipating this after the first replacement cap, I have gone through the tedious process of cleaning out the super glue with a large needle, nail polish remover and toothpicks every time I use an applicator in order to maximize its usage. I am even still using the first of the two glue tubes. They tips were not designed for reuse, and I doubt most people would have the patience to do this. I am going to have to find another source for applicator tips--probably a woodworking or hobby store. For me, sparing Rodney that gruesome operation makes it all worthwhile and I recommend people try these things at least once. They are not that expensive and my vet says she has shown clients how to put them on the first time. There is a knack to it and a lot depends on your level of comfort with your cat. Being more of a cat person, I am more comfortable putting these on Rodney on than I am brushing my dog Norman's teeth, and he doesn't do much more than try to twist his head and give me the stare of betrayal. Go figure.

I LOVE these. I've used them on tons of cats for multiple years of all different personality types. One HUGE guy hated his paws touched, so we'd only do his front legs, and it would stop him from scratching the couch. We would just work in a team to get them on his feet. My feral rescue had some severe scratching issues, and these broke her of all of her "preferred" scratching spots. After about 2 months of Soft Claws, I was able to create new OK spots for her to scratch which came with heavy rewards, diverting the problem somewhere OK. She HATED getting these put on, but I can announce that I haven't used soft paws on her for two years, and my furniture is still good! That said, I recommended these to my mother, who has two slow, fat cats. She's really afraid of cutting their nails, and also hated that they scratched her furniture. No matter WHAT I told her to do, she wouldn't follow through, and was inches from getting her cats declawed (which is inhumane, and ABSOLUTELY NOT an alternative). She had the vet install them on the cats for a small fee, and told me how much she LOVED them for the first month. The thing is that these normally fall off naturally after a few weeks, but they didn't on her cats. I am a frequent checker of my cats for cuts and scrapes, and have curtailed many a cyst, but my mother apparently never goes over them to make sure their health is OK. About 4 of the nails kept growing with the caps on them, and the caps were forced into the paw pads of the kitties requiring an emergency trip to the vet to fix. The thing was that this is EASILY preventable, but good luck explaining that to my mother NOW. My sphynx cat had one claw that refused to fall off, and well before it reached her paw pads, I just trimmed the tip off using nail cutters, and then carefully peeled the nail off. Easy. Tips on keeping the claws on, and preventing growth into the cat's paws: ~Trim your cats nails the DAY BEFORE application. If you do it immediately before, any sharp or loose nail edges will make it less likely for the glue to hold ~ Check every single claw before application. If the lower portion of the open side that would be closest to the paw pad) seems larger than average, trim it before application. This will prevent the edge from growing into the cat's paw pad. ~ If the caps are too large for your cat (test one without glue, first.) Trim a small portion off the open end. This will help make sure they stay on the cat longer, too. ~If you have a wiggly or aggressive cat, have one person calm them with treats and a second person put glue into ALL of the caps for one (or all) paws. Put all of the caps on as fast as possible, and keep rewarding kitty. Make it a very positive experience. Wrapping him in a blanket might work, but you might make the experience of having his paws touched a traumatic one for the future. These need to be reapplied at least every month, so this will be frequent. ~have paper towel handy. If too much glue is used, it will leak around the edges. Dab at this with paper towel before releasing the claw to prevent the nail gluing to the skin or fur of your cat. This may just be me, but my older sphynx girl drools HEAVILY upon application, so we have to dab her mouth the whole application time, or else wind up drenched in cat drool. ~Keep your cat on your lap with lots of pets and treats for a GOOD 5 minutes after application. If you don't do this, you'll likely have half of the nails pulled off the second you let the cat down. It also helps to have some play time afterwards, too. Just do enough to keep your cat distracted from licking his feet. And most importantly: ~Check your cats paws at LEAST once a week after application. Make it a habit to check your cat for scratches every week, and then look over the paws, too. If any seem to be growing close to the pad, trim them away ASAP. Checking kitty also lets you make sure there are no unusual or swollen scratches, as cysts are a common issue in cats. These claw caps are wonderful, but they're not MAGIC. They still require some work to get on, and maintain, but it's definitely cheaper than a new couch. If you are willing to put in a LITTLE extra work, these go a long way. I also love that colors can be customized! It lets me give my cats a little bit of personality without actually doing something as dumb as actually painting their nails :p

I think this is a quality product. They're really easy to apply, and if I use enough glue they stay on very well. If they don't, it's my fault. The cats don't even seem to notice they have them on. However, I ordered the XS set, as I have 2 kittens. The box shows there are 40 XS nail caps in the package, but there are actually 2 vials of caps, one vial is 20 of the XS that I ordered, and the other vial is 20 of a much larger size. Not even the next size. My girls are likely going to stay small and won't need the larger size. Nowhere on the box does it state there are 2 different sizes in the box. Anyway, with only 20 caps to cover 2 cats, and being a total novice at the glue application, they lost a few, so were without all nails covered, and there were no extra to redo. I did have 20 that were totally useless. I contacted the seller and was told that yes, all packages were that way. It wasn't an error. I had to order a second package to get them relatively quickly to cover the nails without caps. Same 2 sizes in the box. Money wasted not once but twice. Even though the product works great on my kittens I won't buy these again.

I applied these nail caps to my two cats several times, usually replacing caps that had fallen off within a week's time. We thought this would be a solution to keep our cats from scratching our hardwood floors. However, after my experience with these caps, I will never be using these nail caps or similar products ever again. I feel like a bad pet owner for using something that put my cats in harm, but the claims this product makes are misleading and lead to injury of one of my cats. First of all, these caps simply did not work for one of my cats. No matter what size I purchased, they did not stay on his nails more than a day or two. In addition, they were so uncomfortable for him that he would chew on the cap until it tore it off. However, for my other cat, the caps stayed on VERY securely. The caps DID NOT naturally shed off like the product claims they do, and the glue left a residue behind on nails that the cap did fall off of. Second of all, gluing the caps onto their nails became very a traumatic experience for my two cats. As a result, they began to avoid me and stopped showing me affection shortly after I started using the caps. In this same time period, I noticed that both of my cats became very sensitive about their paws, and I believe this was because as their nails grew out, the caps applied pressure upward into their nails and against their cuticles and caused them to become irritated. This issue is ultimately what made me decide to stop use of the nail caps. Finally, because I did not want to cut into the quick of my second cat's natural nails to remove the nail caps (because, as I mentioned earlier, the caps did NOT shed on their own, and my cat scratches very frequently), I let his nails grow out longer than normal. When I did cut his nails, it was fairly easy and painless to cut the nails off. I thought I had removed all of the caps, but I missed one (I still don't know how.) I'm not sure if this happened within the week between the final removal of the other caps or if this is the reason I overlooked the last nail cap, but the remaining cap became embedded in my cat's nail bed. It's was very painful for him, and while the cap was able to be removed easily as well once I found it, it did damage my cat's pad and cause him a lot of pain. PLEASE DONT USE THIS PRODUCT!!! The effects of these caps are overwhelmingly negative, and there are better ways to address behavioral issues such as scratching and preserving your house. ITS NOT WORTH THE HARM THIS PRODUCT CAN DO TO YOUR CAT.

Our 7 year old (indoor only) cat had been scratching the carpet for years. It got progressively worse. When we got a new carpet it started to become a real problem. We tried EVERYTHING to get him to stop scratching: - Every type of vertical/horizontal scratching post...he used them in addition to the carpet. - Covering his "favorite" scratching spots with a throw....he found new "favorite" spots on the carpet to scratch. - Positive reinforcement for using the right spots using treats and encouragement...reduced but didn't stop the carpet scratching. - All kinds of corrective training methods: moving him from the carpet to the scratching post, loud noises, squirt gun even!......he just did it when we weren't at home. We don't believe in declawing...and we were at our wits end. That's when we found Soft Claws. And PEACE at last has been returned to our house. The carpets are happy, our cat is happy, and we don't even have to THINK about the scratching problem anymore let alone not having to spend time train our cat. Here are my favorite aspects of Soft Claws: * NO MORE SCRATCHED UP CARPET - This of course was the goal. He no longer even tries to scratch the carpet (though he still attempts to use the scratching posts). * EASY - As easy to apply as cutting his nails...done in minutes. I did it successfully without another person to hold him on the first attempt. * DOESN'T BOTHER MY CAT - He doesn't even notice they are on. I thought for sure he would try to bite/lick them off....but nothing. He seemed not even to notice them when they first went on. There wasn't even a few minutes of adjustment (though I still made sure to watch him for the first day). * THEY LAST - I have only had one fall off in the past 7 weeks....and I think that was due to me not putting enough glue. * NO MORE SCRATCHED PEOPLE - This was a great added bonus. Sometimes he's grumpy...he can't help it...he's an old man and you are bothering his nap time! But now his swats have no sting. It seems to have mellowed him out so that he doesn't even take a swat at people as often. * OTHER CATS - We have another, younger cat who does not wear Soft Claws (she doesn't have the bad carpet scratching habit). It hasn't really affected their interaction at all. All in all we are happy - it has been only 2 months but we have not a single problem with this product and only great experience! -------------------------------------------------------------- 7/27/2012 Update..it's been a year later and here are the general observations: *HINTS* --REMOVED MYSELF INSTEAD OF FALLING OFF: I sometimes had to remove the Soft Claws because they didn't fall off naturally. After some research online I read up on cats nails and how they shed, and how that natural shedding is what makes the Soft Claws fall off. Apparently my cats nails are uncooperative. So, I would monitor the Claws and when they started to get too long I would cut just the very tip off to help encourage them to fall off naturally (BE CAREFUL NOT TO GO TOO FAR - you don't want to hit the quik of the cat's real nail (i.e. the part that will bleed). This was a small hassle but WAY less then the carpet scratching so YAY -- They *sometimes* got things stuck on the cat temporarily. I came home once to find him with a small cat toy stuck to his paw....he didn't seem to notice or be bothered by that at all, but I would have been if I were him. I must say though, in the year of using them, he didn't have any injuries or health problems from the Soft Claws. -- GET THE COLORS: We're not even the kind of people that put clothing on our animals, BUT the colored claws have an advantage over the clear: You can easily see when one falls off and check the length of them without holding the cat down and fighting to check each one. I started with clear but ended up only using color. *BONUS**** IT BROKE THE SCRATCHING HABIT!!* Few! this old cat has FINALLY learned! The Soft Claws seem to have done the trick to break his habbit. After a little under a year of use, we have been Soft Claws free for 2 months now and he hasn't reverted yet. This is the ideal thing! We keep Soft Claws on hand just in case he reverts back to his Old Habbits. *Hint: I started only putting the new claws on after he started scratching at the carpet again.*

Within the first several hours of receiving delivery of a new leather sofa, kitty jumped up and was surprised at how slick the leather was as compared to our old fabric sofa. She slid off and left behind 2 small nicks and several claw skid marks. I am vehemently opposed to declawing, so with fingers crossed, gave this a try. Kitty is a 4 year old with tons of energy and personality. In other words, she is not one to just lay limp in your arms and let you do anything to her. Not knowing if I'd be able to apply all 10 in one sitting, I first only filled 5 of the covers. We ended up being able to apply them all, and it wasn't a problem taking a short break in between to fill the next 5. Notes: - It was easier with two of us - - husband to brush and distract kitty, and me to apply. I think it helped a lot that we already trim her nails regularly, so she is used to having her paws touched and handled. Alternately, I have also easily managed to replace single nails that have fallen off while she is napping and fast asleep. - Instructions say fill 1/3 full with glue however, it's not easy to see just how much glue is in each nail. I used the glue sparingly at first. That evening while she was playing with her mouse, 2 covers fell right off. I replaced them and this time filled them more closely to 1/3 full as directed. I overfilled one of them and a little of the glue oozed out onto some of the fur around her toe. I wiped it off quickly, but a teeny bit of fur stuck to the soft claw. This really bothered her and she pulled that soft claw off right away. My husband said it probably felt like arm hair caught in a watchband. - Before and after filling with glue, squeeze open each soft claw so they slip more easily onto each nail. - I tried using my fingers, then also tried using tweezers to put on each soft claw. I found tweezers to be much easier - - more control, and easier to see what you're doing without fingers in the way. - I ordered the clear because I purposely did not wish them to be noticeable. As a side note however, if the covers were brightly colored, you could tell if any covers had fallen off with just a quick glance at each paw. If one had fallen off, it would also be easier to spot around the house. - After 2 weeks, one cover fell off. A week later, we found another on the floor. Both had nail sheaths stuck inside them. This tells us that they work as they are designed to - - - that is, the covers fall off because the nails had grown and their sheaths had shed. Sure enough, the bare nails were long and needed to be trimmed before new covers were put on. Caution however, not to trim the nails too short. If you do, it doesn't leave enough nail surface for the glue to adhere to and the Soft Claw will quickly fall off. In summary : Other than when the glue oozed out of the one claw, kitty hasn't tried to pull off a single cover. In fact, she truly doesn't seem to even notice she has them on. They are a complete and perfect solution and everyone is happy. Couldn't ask for anything more.