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I use Soft Paws! But don't buy them from the website, it's much cheaper to get them off Ebay. It's not that tricky... Just make sure you have someone to help you. This is what I do.
First, get the cat when it's relaxed and put it on top of a towel spread out on the ground. Make sure its front legs are off the towel, then bundle the cat up snugly so you've got a cat burrito with its front legs sticking out. Voila, no possible cat scratches and they can't struggle.
Then get the person who's not holding the cat to put the glue in the rubber claw (not too much or it'll overflow when you put it over the claw and get glue over the cat's cuticle and fur, which is painful).
Then just move to the next claw, rinse, repeat. When you're done try and keep the cat there in the towel while the glue dries, then watch it to make sure it doesn't pull the claws off before they're well and truly stuck on.
My cats have them on, and they don't mind them at all after the first 10 minutes or so. I haven't used them for kittens before, but I know you can get kitten-sized ones too. I have a new kitten and I'm pondering whether I'll use them on her yet.
As for playing... I love play-wrestling with my cats :D I think of it as a bonding exercise. It hurts sometimes when they bite too hard, but when they do that I'll just disentangle myself, walk away and ignore them. Soft Paws help with the scratches from wrestling too as far as the front paws go, but they'll still get you with kicking their back paws. It just depends on whether your cat learns to retract their claws while playing, like my first cat, or are little bastards out to do some damage, like my second <3 I think my ex-housemate was the one responsible for getting him into the habit of being too rough, though it might just be that he's male.
<-- My crazy little man with his claws on
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