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Well, that's good to know. The person who told me about it worked with cats and one day they had a cat with capsand they were like I described before. Perhaps the owner did it all wrong.I will admit, because the caps are FAR more visible than the natural claws, it does create the optical illusion that the claws are always extended, so I can see how this idea was formed, and it does sound logical if you've only seen pictures and never interacted with a cat wearing caps. However, in practice, this isn't the case except in the sorts of situations where people mess things up horribly just to be able to claim a thing doesn't work.
If you get too large a size, and use way too much glue, there might be some possibility of some problems. Most likely, it would be related to super gluing skin, not inability to flex toes, but I'll not deny the outside possibility of someone gluing a wildly oversized cap over the entire toe, instead of just the claw. It would be pretty clear you'd done it wrong though, on par with thinking acrylic nails for humans should cover the first knuckle in addition to the nail level obvious.
Properly applied, claw caps end a touch before the base of the claw, and don't impede normal claw motion at all. The instructions explain how to fit the caps, and how to check that you have purchased the correct size. My cat Molly had no trouble or evidence of discomfort in her caps, other than disliking the application process, probably due to having to sit still and the extended length of time it took compared to a normal claw trimming. I also watched her flex and extend her claws in the caps, and double checked her range of motion in the caps, and it was no different from her range of motion without them.