Soft Claws Nail Caps for Medium Cats, 40 Caps, Pink

I LOVE these. I've used them on tons of cats for multiple years of all different personality types. One HUGE guy hated his paws touched, so we'd only do his front legs, and it would stop him from scratching the couch. We would just work in a team to get them on his feet. My feral rescue had some severe scratching issues, and these broke her of all of her "preferred" scratching spots. After about 2 months of Soft Claws, I was able to create new OK spots for her to scratch which came with heavy rewards, diverting the problem somewhere OK. She HATED getting these put on, but I can announce that I haven't used soft paws on her for two years, and my furniture is still good! That said, I recommended these to my mother, who has two slow, fat cats. She's really afraid of cutting their nails, and also hated that they scratched her furniture. No matter WHAT I told her to do, she wouldn't follow through, and was inches from getting her cats declawed (which is inhumane, and ABSOLUTELY NOT an alternative). She had the vet install them on the cats for a small fee, and told me how much she LOVED them for the first month. The thing is that these normally fall off naturally after a few weeks, but they didn't on her cats. I am a frequent checker of my cats for cuts and scrapes, and have curtailed many a cyst, but my mother apparently never goes over them to make sure their health is OK. About 4 of the nails kept growing with the caps on them, and the caps were forced into the paw pads of the kitties requiring an emergency trip to the vet to fix. The thing was that this is EASILY preventable, but good luck explaining that to my mother NOW. My sphynx cat had one claw that refused to fall off, and well before it reached her paw pads, I just trimmed the tip off using nail cutters, and then carefully peeled the nail off. Easy. Tips on keeping the claws on, and preventing growth into the cat's paws: ~Trim your cats nails the DAY BEFORE application. If you do it immediately before, any sharp or loose nail edges will make it less likely for the glue to hold ~ Check every single claw before application. If the lower portion of the open side that would be closest to the paw pad) seems larger than average, trim it before application. This will prevent the edge from growing into the cat's paw pad. ~ If the caps are too large for your cat (test one without glue, first.) Trim a small portion off the open end. This will help make sure they stay on the cat longer, too. ~If you have a wiggly or aggressive cat, have one person calm them with treats and a second person put glue into ALL of the caps for one (or all) paws. Put all of the caps on as fast as possible, and keep rewarding kitty. Make it a very positive experience. Wrapping him in a blanket might work, but you might make the experience of having his paws touched a traumatic one for the future. These need to be reapplied at least every month, so this will be frequent. ~have paper towel handy. If too much glue is used, it will leak around the edges. Dab at this with paper towel before releasing the claw to prevent the nail gluing to the skin or fur of your cat. This may just be me, but my older sphynx girl drools HEAVILY upon application, so we have to dab her mouth the whole application time, or else wind up drenched in cat drool. ~Keep your cat on your lap with lots of pets and treats for a GOOD 5 minutes after application. If you don't do this, you'll likely have half of the nails pulled off the second you let the cat down. It also helps to have some play time afterwards, too. Just do enough to keep your cat distracted from licking his feet. And most importantly: ~Check your cats paws at LEAST once a week after application. Make it a habit to check your cat for scratches every week, and then look over the paws, too. If any seem to be growing close to the pad, trim them away ASAP. Checking kitty also lets you make sure there are no unusual or swollen scratches, as cysts are a common issue in cats. These claw caps are wonderful, but they're not MAGIC. They still require some work to get on, and maintain, but it's definitely cheaper than a new couch. If you are willing to put in a LITTLE extra work, these go a long way. I also love that colors can be customized! It lets me give my cats a little bit of personality without actually doing something as dumb as actually painting their nails :p

Our 7 year old (indoor only) cat had been scratching the carpet for years. It got progressively worse. When we got a new carpet it started to become a real problem. We tried EVERYTHING to get him to stop scratching: - Every type of vertical/horizontal scratching post...he used them in addition to the carpet. - Covering his "favorite" scratching spots with a throw....he found new "favorite" spots on the carpet to scratch. - Positive reinforcement for using the right spots using treats and encouragement...reduced but didn't stop the carpet scratching. - All kinds of corrective training methods: moving him from the carpet to the scratching post, loud noises, squirt gun even!......he just did it when we weren't at home. We don't believe in declawing...and we were at our wits end. That's when we found Soft Claws. And PEACE at last has been returned to our house. The carpets are happy, our cat is happy, and we don't even have to THINK about the scratching problem anymore let alone not having to spend time train our cat. Here are my favorite aspects of Soft Claws: * NO MORE SCRATCHED UP CARPET - This of course was the goal. He no longer even tries to scratch the carpet (though he still attempts to use the scratching posts). * EASY - As easy to apply as cutting his nails...done in minutes. I did it successfully without another person to hold him on the first attempt. * DOESN'T BOTHER MY CAT - He doesn't even notice they are on. I thought for sure he would try to bite/lick them off....but nothing. He seemed not even to notice them when they first went on. There wasn't even a few minutes of adjustment (though I still made sure to watch him for the first day). * THEY LAST - I have only had one fall off in the past 7 weeks....and I think that was due to me not putting enough glue. * NO MORE SCRATCHED PEOPLE - This was a great added bonus. Sometimes he's grumpy...he can't help it...he's an old man and you are bothering his nap time! But now his swats have no sting. It seems to have mellowed him out so that he doesn't even take a swat at people as often. * OTHER CATS - We have another, younger cat who does not wear Soft Claws (she doesn't have the bad carpet scratching habit). It hasn't really affected their interaction at all. All in all we are happy - it has been only 2 months but we have not a single problem with this product and only great experience! -------------------------------------------------------------- 7/27/2012 Update..it's been a year later and here are the general observations: *HINTS* --REMOVED MYSELF INSTEAD OF FALLING OFF: I sometimes had to remove the Soft Claws because they didn't fall off naturally. After some research online I read up on cats nails and how they shed, and how that natural shedding is what makes the Soft Claws fall off. Apparently my cats nails are uncooperative. So, I would monitor the Claws and when they started to get too long I would cut just the very tip off to help encourage them to fall off naturally (BE CAREFUL NOT TO GO TOO FAR - you don't want to hit the quik of the cat's real nail (i.e. the part that will bleed). This was a small hassle but WAY less then the carpet scratching so YAY -- They *sometimes* got things stuck on the cat temporarily. I came home once to find him with a small cat toy stuck to his paw....he didn't seem to notice or be bothered by that at all, but I would have been if I were him. I must say though, in the year of using them, he didn't have any injuries or health problems from the Soft Claws. -- GET THE COLORS: We're not even the kind of people that put clothing on our animals, BUT the colored claws have an advantage over the clear: You can easily see when one falls off and check the length of them without holding the cat down and fighting to check each one. I started with clear but ended up only using color. *BONUS**** IT BROKE THE SCRATCHING HABIT!!* Few! this old cat has FINALLY learned! The Soft Claws seem to have done the trick to break his habbit. After a little under a year of use, we have been Soft Claws free for 2 months now and he hasn't reverted yet. This is the ideal thing! We keep Soft Claws on hand just in case he reverts back to his Old Habbits. *Hint: I started only putting the new claws on after he started scratching at the carpet again.*

I have been using another brand of claw caps for several years and recently switched to these because they're a bit less expensive. I have had no bad experience with the quality of the caps, they seem identical to the original brand (SoftPaws). I would like to address a few comments from other reviews. In general if your cat will allow you to trim its claws, you won't have difficulty in applying these. The first application may need to be done over a few days because they may get tired of you messing with their claws before all ten are applied. If you go into an enclosed room (bathroom) to apply them it is much easier because the cat knows there is no escape, and therefore will fight you less. My extremely large cat is simply uncomfortable being held on my lap, so I make him lay on the bathroom counter to get his claws done. The smaller cat I just sit on my lap and trim/apply from there. Neither loves to have their claws done, but both tolerate it. It makes a HUGE difference if you start applying them when your cat is young. My old cat never quit trying to chew them off, his claws were practically nubs because he just never got completely comfortable with them. So he tended to need new caps applied much more frequently than my younger cats who have worn them since they were kittens. Also, a cat who tends to scratch a lot will lose them more frequently than one who does so less often. After you insert the claw into the cap with the glue, run your finger around the base of the cap to remove excess glue, which will prevent it sticking to their fur and making an uncomfortable lump of glue. It is also advisable to hold and pet your kitty for five minutes after the caps are applied to keep them from pulling the caps off before the glue dries. if your caps are coming off sooner than you think is reasonable, try a smaller size. it doesn't really matter how far up the claw the cap extends, and you don't want any air to be between the cap and the claw, as that will reduce surface area for the glue to stick and they'll be more likely to come off. If your cat does not eventually get the claws off themselves with normal clawing activity, you may need to cut them off. Definitely do this before the end of the cap touches their toe-pad. Just trim the end off as though you were trimming a raw claw, and then, using a claw trimmer or sharp scissors, cut the top edge of the cap along the top of their claw and remove the remaining cap. This will prevent you trimming the claw too closely. If your cats claws are sharp after the claw comes off, it is a result of normal shedding of claw material. If they still look trimmed, then the claw came off or was chewed off prior to normal shedding and you may want to try using a smaller size, using more glue, or holding them longer once new caps are applied. Personally I like the colored caps because it's easier to see that caps have been lost and need to be replaced. In my experience after the first set of caps have been applied, a box of 40 will last you 8-12 weeks, depending on the cat. I normally only apply caps to the front paws, I just trim the back claws. I have applied caps to the inside claws on the back when one of my cats had an irritation and was scratching herself raw. This prevented her breaking the skin on an already irritated spot.

I absolutely LOVE these for my cat. He hates getting his nails clipped and never lets me touch his paws. So while I was waiting for the SoftPaws to come in the mail, I would touch his paws and play with them until he was a bit more comfortable. Then when they finally came in I was excited to put them on. I was very worried that he would shred up my arms and waited a few weeks before finally putting them on him. When he started playing pretty rough with our new puppy, I knew I had to find a way to put them on him before he scratched her good! So while he was sleeping pretty hard one day, I sat next to him, pet him, cliped one nail, and kept petting him. I did this until he finally came to and figured out that I was messing with his nails. I'd wait another 5-10 mins and do the whole thing all over again until I got all of his nails clipped. I put the nail caps on the exact same way. I filled one up with the glue, sat next to him, pet him until he was comfortable, and then slipped a nail cap on his nails. Again, I did this until he figured out what I was doing and would give it a few minutes before trying again. This went on until I put all 10 nail caps on his paws. He didn't notice at all. He licked his paws a bit, but he did not fight to chew them off or throw a fit. This really surprised me. It's like he didn't even notice them! He is such a sweet kitty but so mean whenever you put a collar on him or try and clip his nails. After I got all of his nail caps on, I watched him to see how he'd react. Of course, he got up and went straight to my carpet that he loved to scratch up. He tried doing it and instead of his nails getting caught, they'd just slip and my carpet wouldn't suffer. This was so cool becuase he was doing what he instinctively does without knowing the difference. He also liked to climb up the couches and would get his claws stuck becuase he never let me cut his nails. Trying this was an adjustment for him because instead of being able to climb up, he'd slip down. My cat really liked to scratch and bite also, but this saved my arms. I was able to play with him without having scratches all the way up my arms. It's been about a month and the nail caps are barely starting to fall off. He's figure out that he can latch on to things again so I need to put some more back on. The only thing is that I bought the medium ones that don't fit so well on his nails. I guess when I order them again I will try large, but I am just worried about them being so big they end up glued to his skin. But the good thing about them being too big is that you can cut/file them down to where they fit his nail perfect. Another thing I will do different is order a bright color. I ordered black because he is a male black cat and I didn't want him to have pink or something too girly, but the downside to this is that it's really hard to tell if they are still on there without having to mess with him and if one does fall off, it might be easier to find on the floor before my puppy or cat puts it in their mouth. This is a really long review, but these nail caps were such a great idea for my cat. So much better and humane than declawing him. Not all cats are the same and I really didn't think my cat would take to them and was so surprised and happy that he did. This product is really easy and at least worth a try before taking your cat to get his little fingers cut off!

I think this is a quality product. They're really easy to apply, and if I use enough glue they stay on very well. If they don't, it's my fault. The cats don't even seem to notice they have them on. However, I ordered the XS set, as I have 2 kittens. The box shows there are 40 XS nail caps in the package, but there are actually 2 vials of caps, one vial is 20 of the XS that I ordered, and the other vial is 20 of a much larger size. Not even the next size. My girls are likely going to stay small and won't need the larger size. Nowhere on the box does it state there are 2 different sizes in the box. Anyway, with only 20 caps to cover 2 cats, and being a total novice at the glue application, they lost a few, so were without all nails covered, and there were no extra to redo. I did have 20 that were totally useless. I contacted the seller and was told that yes, all packages were that way. It wasn't an error. I had to order a second package to get them relatively quickly to cover the nails without caps. Same 2 sizes in the box. Money wasted not once but twice. Even though the product works great on my kittens I won't buy these again.

I applied these nail caps to my two cats several times, usually replacing caps that had fallen off within a week's time. We thought this would be a solution to keep our cats from scratching our hardwood floors. However, after my experience with these caps, I will never be using these nail caps or similar products ever again. I feel like a bad pet owner for using something that put my cats in harm, but the claims this product makes are misleading and lead to injury of one of my cats. First of all, these caps simply did not work for one of my cats. No matter what size I purchased, they did not stay on his nails more than a day or two. In addition, they were so uncomfortable for him that he would chew on the cap until it tore it off. However, for my other cat, the caps stayed on VERY securely. The caps DID NOT naturally shed off like the product claims they do, and the glue left a residue behind on nails that the cap did fall off of. Second of all, gluing the caps onto their nails became very a traumatic experience for my two cats. As a result, they began to avoid me and stopped showing me affection shortly after I started using the caps. In this same time period, I noticed that both of my cats became very sensitive about their paws, and I believe this was because as their nails grew out, the caps applied pressure upward into their nails and against their cuticles and caused them to become irritated. This issue is ultimately what made me decide to stop use of the nail caps. Finally, because I did not want to cut into the quick of my second cat's natural nails to remove the nail caps (because, as I mentioned earlier, the caps did NOT shed on their own, and my cat scratches very frequently), I let his nails grow out longer than normal. When I did cut his nails, it was fairly easy and painless to cut the nails off. I thought I had removed all of the caps, but I missed one (I still don't know how.) I'm not sure if this happened within the week between the final removal of the other caps or if this is the reason I overlooked the last nail cap, but the remaining cap became embedded in my cat's nail bed. It's was very painful for him, and while the cap was able to be removed easily as well once I found it, it did damage my cat's pad and cause him a lot of pain. PLEASE DONT USE THIS PRODUCT!!! The effects of these caps are overwhelmingly negative, and there are better ways to address behavioral issues such as scratching and preserving your house. ITS NOT WORTH THE HARM THIS PRODUCT CAN DO TO YOUR CAT.

Update!!: it’s 2020 my sweet boy turns 6 this year. I STILL LOVE these. He’s gotten to where some months he won’t even notice they fell off for awhile and won’t even bother scratching at things. However, once he notices. Man, he goes all out. He is now a big (healthy) chunker that weighs 18 pounds. I alternate between large and medium for him and medium for his now girlfriend who weighs about 8-10 pounds. They both try to take them off as soon as I put them on. However, after a few minutes they have forgotten about them again. Original post: I absolutely love these! I started using this product about 4-5 months ago. I wanted to give it enough time before, I wrote a review. So here's my story: My sweet kitten just turned one in June and was getting/ tearing up everything! Trimming his nails didn't help, a big scratching post didn't work. Absolutely nothing helped. My fiancé started to push for us to declaw him just because, the cat was getting very out of hand. However, since I'm not big on declawing I went to the Internet! These are what I've found! I've ordered both a small and a medium of these and have found that medium work best. Id say if the cat is younger than one get small, any older it's best to get medium. The Good: -Basically what these are, are rubber caps that go onto your cats nail. They do not hurt them and for the most part the glue holds strong. It's a special glue that won't hurt the animals nails. Nor will it damage anything. They are still able to use their nails however, they arnt nearly as sharp. The Bad: - I've noticed on some of these reviews they complain the nails don't stay long enough or stay on to long. I have had a situation with both. I have learned it truly varies on two things: how much glue you put into the nail and how fast your cat's nails grow. Be sure to trim the cat's nails before putting the nail caps on that way they get the longest life span possible. Sometimes, My cat will lose a nail cap after a week of me putting them on. This has nothing to do with the product. It just means my cat was to fidgety and I didn't put as much glue as I needed too. Some of the nails are different sizes. So make sure that the bigger ones go on the bigger nails (obviously). The Ugly: - There was one time that I had notice my cat had two nails stuck longer than any of his other nail caps ( about two months). I had already replaced all the other ones at least once. However, those two were stuck like some of the horror stories suggested in previous reviews. To be honest it isn't a huge deal. It just means for some reason they stuck better. I learned that to get those two nails that were “super stuck” off. All you have to do it get a cotton ball with nail polish remover on it and rub the cats stuck nail cap until it pops off. It took only a matter of minutes. Also, it is notable to mention the glue dries very quickly. I've learned not to put the glue cap back on. Otherwise, you will never be able to open the glue again. I just put it in a sandwhich bag away from everything until my next use. Also, it does NOT rip out the nail!!! What you see when the nail falls off is dried glue that came up when it fell off the cats nails. Overall, I highly recommend this product to anyone considering to buy it. I've only had to buy two packages in all the months I've been using this product. Great price for the quantity and quality!

I did not have high hopes for this product, but our Savannah is almost two now. He was born funnel-chested and as the runt of the litter, so he's not as big as a normal Savannah. But he has had a crazy, unexpected growth and energy spurt, and we're starting to understand what it means to be owned by a Savannah. Our other two cats are bengals, and we thought they were high energy. We were confused. Along with the high energy has come massive amounts of property and skin destruction. Savannah boy's favorite thing to do to greet you (if you've left the room for a while or the house for a few hours, it's all the same to him) is to give you a little warning bark and then, standing in front of you, and launch so he can drape himself across your shoulders. He's not small now. This can be a less than awesome experience for the human involved. Aaaand kitty has a knee issue, so when he launches, we take one for the team. Enter soft claws. Savannah boy has been trained from the day he entered our house that his nails will be trimmed, and I think that helped a lot in the application process. We chose green claws, by the way. Savannah boy did not indicate a preference when I showed him a preference on the screen. Putting these on wasn't nearly as bad as I feared. You really just hold a paw, push out a claw, and push on a glue-filled cap. Press and hold. Repeat what seems like zillions of times. We were more stressed out about it than the cat. The most difficult thing about the process was getting the glue into the caps and figuring out how much glue to use. I kept thinking I had it down to a science and then, oops, too much glue and a little would ooze out the top. I probably erred on the side of not enough glue in the end. Savannah boy dealt pretty well until the end. We were distracting him with little toys and bird YouTube videos so we could get through it. When he was done, he was done, and we rushed through the last two caps. Then we held him for a good 10 minutes that he didn't enjoy to make sure the glue was dry. A ridiculous helping of cat treats was introduced at that point. We are not proud of this. When Savannah boy was allowed to walk off, he didn't react until he stepped off the rug onto the hardwood floor. And then he sort of stopped short. He didn't realize what was wrong, I think. Just that something wasn't the same as it was before. I was shocked, sure that he would sit down and start gnawing the caps off. But he just ignored the things. That lasted until nightfall. He is alpha kitty and sleeps on our bed. (Don't worry, the other two have heated cat beds.) Part of his routine is ridiculously loud bathing before he falls asleep. That night he discovered the claw covers. He knew they were NOT NATURAL and needed to be TAKEN OUT. We rock, paper, scissored, and my husband was dispatched to run the cat around with a stick toy until he could bathe no more. The bathing went on every night like that -- still does, weeks later, but we've figured out that he can't really get the caps off unless they're loose and ready to come off anyway. The gnawing is an annoying sound, though. It seems like he does it less, but maybe I'm just getting used to it. So, how long did our first application last on the most active domestic breed of cat? We lost the caps on both dew claws and one claw on the right paw in the first three days. By the end of the week, another right paw claw and one left paw claw had disappeared. By the end of the second week, we still had all of the left paw claws covered except for one and the dew claw, but we were down to 3 caps on the right. By now, the end of the third week, the left paw has two lonely little caps and that's it. It's a success, I think, enough to go another round. We'll use more glue on all of the caps this time, and I'm trying to come up with a different way to load the caps and measure the glue. Perhaps a large bore syringe will work? I don't exactly have any of those on hand, but I'm off to search the craft section for glue applicators. Wish us luck. If you're struggling to protect yourself or your stuff, you might as well give these caps a try. If your cat is not a Savannah, you'll probably have even better luck than we did.

Tres pratique. Je recommande. Cela m a bcp aidé pour l un de mes chats qui se grattait à sang. Les plaies ont pu se refermer et il n a pas été frustré car il pouvait se gratter sans se faire mal. Elles ont tenues 2 mois en place puis sont tombées avec la pousse des griffes. Une bonne solution pour se genre de problématique

Loved it and easy to put on. Just make sure you spend about five minutes brushing your cat after so the glue can dry properly otherwise they will chew them off in two minutes. If they are hard to put on you probably got a size too small. Dont hesitate to pre load the nails with glue before wrestling your cat

j ai acheté ce produit pour éviter les griffures sur mon rideau , j ai pris taille chaton la colle n est pas facile a mettre dedans mais une fois mis hop on n enfile sur l ongle légèrement couper ou pas. dans la boite il y a un change heureusement car dans le debut mon chaton a essaye de les enlever.il faut vraiment l habituer petit a moins que votre chat soi docile depuis plus de soucis.

Ich habe die Softclaws gekauft, weil mein Kater sich ausgelöst durch eine Allergie den Hals und Nacken blutig aufgekratzt hat. Aufgrund der Lage der Wunde kam ein Trichter nicht in Frage, die Wunden haben aber gejuckt und so hat mein Kater sich immer wieder von neuem die Haut blutig aufgekratzt. Ich war schon völlig am Verzweifeln als ich dann auf die Softclaws gestoßen bin. Laut Produktbeschreibung sollen sie die Katze davon abhalten, Möbel zu zerkratzen. Aber was am Ende zerkratzt wird, ist ja egal. Einen Versuch war es wert, also bestellt. Geliefert werden einmal die Softclaws selbst, das sind kleine Nagelkappen (in meinem Fall in Größe M für meinen Kater) und außerdem dabei ist ein Sekundenkleber und eine Art Trichter, den man an die Sekundenkleber Tube anbringt, um so die Spitze davon in die Nagelkappen stecken zu können. Dort füllt man dann nach Gefühl den Kleber ein. Anschließend stülpt man die Nagelkappe auf die zuvor mit einer für Tiere geeigneten Nagelschere gestutzen Krallen der Katze. Bei meinem Kater war es hilfreich, das zu zweit zu machen. Während einer die Katze streichelt und ablenkt kann die zweite Person die Nagelkappen anbringen. Das tut der Katze in keinster Weise weh, aber es ist natürlich etwas neues, was da eigentlich nicht hingehört, deshalb kann es sein dass sie am Anfang versucht die Nagelkappen wieder abzumachen. Man muss der Katze einfach Zeit geben,sich daran zu gewöhnen. Meinem Kater macht es inzwischen überhaupt nichts mehr aus. Ich habe die Softclaws lediglich an den Hinterpfoten angebracht, da er sich mit denen ja am Hals kratzt. An den Vorderpfoten habe ich nichts angebracht und würde ich auch nicht tun. Denn die Softclaws funktionieren wirklich! Mein Kater hat sich endlich die Wunden nicht mehr aufgekratzt und sie konnten in Ruhe heilen! Aber ich habe schon gemerkt, dass er sich nicht mehr so gut festhalten kann, wenn er zum Beispiel auf das Sofa springt. Deshalb würde ich das nie an die Vorderpfoten anbringen, es sei denn es wäre medizinisch nötig. Denn mit den die Softclaws haben eben eine sehr glatte Oberfläche und die Katze kann sich dann nirgends mehr festhalten. Wem es also darum geht, dass sie Katze einfach nicht kratzen soll, dem würde ich dazu raten erstmal mehr Kratzmöglichkeiten in der Wohnung zu schaffen mit Kratzbäumen, Kratzbrettern etc. und die Krallen mit einer Krallenschere zurück zu schneiden (bitte dazu ein Tutorial vorher anschauen, man darf nicht zu tief schneiden!). Dann gibt es eigentlich auch keine Probleme. Die Softclaws fallen übrigens nach einer Weile von ganz alleine ab, da die Katze ganz natürlich ihre Krallen verliert und ihr neue nachwachsen.

The soft paws are amazing!! Very easy to apply and my kitten did not try to take them out at all. He is now unable to scratch the furniture. Please notr this is not harmful to the kitten at all and they are still able to use their claws as normal. They just can't actually scratch the furniture anymore! Would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to enjoy scratch free furniture!