Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74266 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Soft Claws

Features

• A great alternative to declawing.

Customer Reviews

Garth likes them!
My big lug of a 20 pound cat Garth has always enjoyed having a manicure. He just lays on his back in my lap and extends each claw himself. I don't know if he's smart or just lazy. We just got new carpet put in and Garth is a major scratcher and even with careful attention to nail trimming its amazing how much damage a cat can do. Now he has his new bright blue soft claws on. He seems to actually like them and very carefully grooms around them and holds them out for inspection. They have been in place an amazing 6 weeks now without a replacement! I'm sold. I think I'll get pink next time. By the way Garth wears a size large, but size large is actually QUITE large so unless you have a huge cat like Garth I would recommend the size medium.

Sanity Regained!
Two crazy cats + new living room furniture = recipe for disaster.

I made a deal with my husband that if we got new furniture and the cats tried to claw it, I would have them declawed. We tried scratching posts and pads and squirt bottles... to no avail. I had resigned myself to having them declawed until husband saw pics online of a declawing procedure (horrid) and we read about how inhumane it really is. We didn't know what to do... then we found Soft Claws.

They are these small vinyl caps that glue onto the cats claws with superglue. They come in different colors and sizes (based on cat's weight. They say most cats wear medium). Applying them wasn't difficult at all. Houdini, he is a sweetie, a big lug that lets you do anything to him. He is about 11 pounds and the medium caps fit purrfectly (sorry, I couldn't resist.) I could put his on by myself, no problem. He just shook his paws a couple of times, and that was it. Tina, on the other hand, is a tiny spazoid that does 720-degree flips in the air while chasing shadows. She was a difficult patient, requiring assistance from husband. She spent hours trying to bite them off (quite a disturbing show, but Soft Claws says they try to bite them off more often than not). After awhile she gave up and has accepted them. She is about 6 pounds and the small ones fit great.

When you put them on, I advise using a bit more glue than the directions recommend and don't trim the cat's nails too short or they will be easy for the cat to bite off. A couple either fell off or were bitten off, but after a second round, I seemed to get the hang of it. They say they last 4-6 weeks depending on how fast your cat's nails grow.

The really great thing about these is that they save your furniture, and carpet, and curtains, while allowing the cat to still use that tendon and muscle for jumping, grooming, playing, chasing things etc... without actually scratching and shredding everything.

I can't say enough wonderful things about these except if you have stumbled upon this review, please get them! I hate to sound like such a commercial, but they really do work.

Not bad for temporary use
I'm writing this review after two months of using Soft Paws; I'm discontinuing use. Inherently, there isn't anything I could find wrong with the product itself and it does exactly what the manufacturer says it does. I have two cats, a 1 year old and a 7 year old. Following the instructions, both tolerated having their nails clipped and having the Soft Paws applied. Neither seemed to even notice that the sheaths were on and neither made any attempt to chew them off. I'm stopping use for two reasons. The first is that it caused them difficulties during play. Both are well trained and do not scratch furniture, but are very active up and down their "cat trees" (as well as other objects in the house). With the Soft Paws, I noticed an increase in the occurrence of them falling off the cat tree because they couldn't grip as expected when climbing about. The second reason is because of the natural nail growth; the gap left as the nail grows did indeed (as other reviewers mention) catch on all sorts of things; requiring human assistance to free them. I think they would be a very helpful tool while you are training a cat to not scratch furniture, but not for permanent use.