No. With my cats they clawed a little, well maybe more than a little, on things but I tolerated it. They generally kept their claws under control scratching them on trees, etc. outside most of their lives. When they got older and couldn’t attend to them so much, as happens with people when they get old too, I clipped their claws. They didn’t like it at first but we worked it out. I ended up having to clip my Dad’s toenails when he got to be a certain age too. Neither of us like that, but we worked it out. :-) Any reason you can’t clip their claws? The cap things always seemed like a lot of bother to me.