Thank you for the link. After reading it I will not declaw a cat in the future. My daughter uses those Soft Paws on her cat. We rescued my present cat when she was 7 months old. She just would not use the scratch pole or that honeycomb-like cardboard scratch box so after about a year we had her declawed. Now she's a biter. One of our previous cats would sometimes not bear full weight on her one paw, as if it was sore; now I know why. We were just used to doing it. Thank you again.