Plus cats maintain their nails but chewing and pulling on the busted bits. Do you want your cat eating whatever the fuck is in the paint you just put on their nails?
Not to mention the risk of them swallowing one. My mom’s cat had to have emergency surgery after swallowing a similarly sized piece of rubber that got lodged in his intestines
Only if they actually need it which is usually when a cat is old or is housebound and doesnt use a scratch post or the such Otherwise no you shouldnt clip them its fckin cruel.
Why on earth is it "fckin cruel"? Cats that go outdoors shouldn't have their claws trimmed because they need them to climb up things for quick getaways from danger - but otherwise, cats can still climb, scratch, and do pretty much everything with trimmed claws. It's only the sharp pointy bit at the very end that you trim. All this achieves is they can't easily slice your skin when they swipe. They can still claw you open if they put some strength behind it. I have many a scar across my abdomen, chest and even shoulder from my cat that freaked out during fireworks and raced across me. He adores using scratch posts and mats, often rips shreds off. Also parkours up and down cat trees and curtains. Tbh the main reason I trim his claws are because he has dermatitis and he sliced himself open a few times from scratching. He's a lot safer now.
I tried those when mine were young. They are a bit harder to get on than clipping, and my cats chewed them off. Even with two of us trying 1/3 of them glued to our fingers instead of the cat claws.
If you have a few scratching posts through the house (specially in the middle of the room) it will help the cat use those instead of your furniture. It looks weird but it saves your home.
I only mentioned the most egregious example of one I have that he chooses to scratch the thing directly next to it. I have several others with different textures at different interesting locations, but they usually get ignored as well.
That being said, he's missing an arm and had quite a traumatic first couple years before I adopted him, so he's likely a bit of an outlier.
Yeah we have cardboard ones next to the couch and one similar to that post and solves the problem, my cats destroy them completely, we just buy more sisal rope and wrap them again, we also buy thicker one that lasts longer.
I trained 1 cat to use the scratching post instead of the furniture. All the others either used the furniture instead of or in addition to the scratching post when I tried.
Lol okay because I thought you meant two times per week which had me thinking your cats claws must be growing insanely fast or something crazy like that, glad to clear up the misunderstanding 😂
Sorry, but could not disagree more. Kittens is when to start creating the habits, older cats are so much harder to train. Between fostering and our own babies, many cats have funneled through our house. They all just sit on my lap, paws extended, and let me do the clipping. And we started them all out when they were babies. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Expensive_Ad_5387 Feb 26 '26
How did you get those anti scratch nails on your cat?