Even when they're playing, cats can do damage with those claws.
While pet cats can be a wonderful part of a family, they can often cause lots of unintentional damage with their claws. Whether your pet is stretching out its muscles by clawing at furniture or "making biscuits" on your chest or arms to show affection, cat claws can hurt!
Cat claw covers, however, can provide a safe way to keep your cat healthy and your furniture and skin safe.
Why Cats Should Keep Their Claws
Though declawing pet cats gained popularity in the United States, many veterinarains agree that it is a dangerous practice that can hurt and traumatize your pet. Unlike fingernails, which do not have nerves in them and are only loosely attached to the skin, cats' claws are actually attached very closely to the bone.
When a cat is declawed, veterinarians have to remove not only muscle and tendon, but bone as well. This is painful and can lead to deformation in your cats' feet. So it is helpful for cat owners to find alternate ways to prevent the damage that can be done by cat claws.
Why Cats Claw
Cats claw primarily for communication. When cats rough up a plant, furniture or piece of your clothing, they are doing to establish their territory. When they claw, the physical result of their handiwork is there as a visual marker. Cats also have scent glands in their paws, so they are leaving faint odors behind as well.
How Claw Covers Work
Cat claw covers work by covering the sharp of your cats' claws while allowing the cat to have full use of its claws. The claw covers sit like the fingers of gloves over the claws. They protect both objects cats might scratch as well as the claws themselves.
Put Claw Covers on Your Cat
To apply cat claw covers, put a small amount of the included adhesive into the end of the cover and slip the cover on to the end of your cats claw.
As the cat's claws grow, the nail covers will fall off and need to be replaced.
Always check with the brand of cat claw covers for any application specifics.
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