Yeah, I thought I'd hate them at first. It was more of a "well, I haven't found anything else, so I might as well try it" sort of buys for me. It might seem ridiculous to put nail extensions on your cats, but they work great and are so simple. Literally just fill the caps with a drop of glue and pop the cap over the nail, squeeze for a second or two to get the air out, and you're done. The whole thing took me as much time to finish as just trimming her claws (a minute or two to prep the nails and fill them all with glue, then maybe 2 minutes to apply them to her claws, simple simple. And they last for 4-6 weeks)... The caps are too blunt to hook into the furniture, my clothes or rugs and the scratches on my arms have finally disappeared. Lily can still exercise her arms and retract and extend her claws and go around scratching at things, without doing any damage. She doesn't even notice them when they're on. My furniture and skin are protected and everyone's happy so it's a win-win in my mind. I just wanted to let other people, who have problems with their cats scratching people or furniture or who might be looking into declawing their cats, know that it's another option out there.