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Cat nails really aren’t “close to bones”. They’re far too fragile for that. They’re designed to be like that, so it’s easy for the cat to sharpen them and keep them a reasonable length.

https://laughingsquid.com/difference-between-claws-and-nails/

this goes in detail, but claws are thicker, and physically closer and more wrapped around the bones, and they not that fragile (especially when normailsed by their weight)

Nails aren’t trimmed beyond usability. They can still use them just fine. You’re really not impairing the cat here.

this will impact their preying abilites i think

Indoor cats don’t usually “sneak away”. Most are perfectly happy indoors and are often afraid of going somewhere they don’t know. And it’s fine if they’re not being some predator all the time. Humans aren’t either, nor are dogs or other animals.

Maybe it is not "sneaking", but indoor cats do spend some time outside, enough to cause damage to other species. Maybe yours or even a significant amount of them do not, but then again, many do

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10073

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cats-prey-on-more-than-2000-different-species-180983429/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016815912100160X

My cats are 2 and 4 years old. They’re rescue cats, taken from the streets of Greece at a very young age. They aren’t allowed to roam free outside anymore, but that’s fine. They’re plenty stimulated through play indoors (which lets them act out any “predatory instincts” they have), though they also like to sleep in some sunny spot all day. Perfectly happy cats.

so your cats are young (as i said, really old or really young). Also, your cats are rescue cats, so they also have some amount of trauma, and may explain some amount of fear.

Again, I am not an expert and would like to learn more about it.

Then try not to present your opinions as some true fact to people who actually know what they’re talking about.

I never claimed my "opinions" as true facts. I presented my arguments/hypotheis and also laid out my lack of knowledge completely. I maybe am wrong, but I did not ever present my arguments as truths. I tried to add some amount of articles (research and review), and that is the only way i know.

Trimming cat nails is completely normal and just a way to do what outdoor cats do naturally anyway

It is not just a way to do what they naturally do, naturally they get experienced in hunting, and during that, they wither their claws. It is a more gradual (not a discrete clip 1 mm in a day, a month together, as compared to a few microns every time they attack). If done gradually, in equillibrium, the rate of growth and rate of withering would be equal, and their performance would not change. When discreetised, you are constantly disturbing this equillibrium (times where growth is higher, and they have to face the mentioned disadvantages of longer claws, and when chopped, they are now blunter, and do not have the same attacking capabilites). Also, the experience (and the reward of food) is now replaced by trauma, and some treats. It is not same both physically and psychologically.

It’s not at all remotely equivalent to declawing a cat.

my statement from my original comment

And maybe cutting/trimming nails is not same as declawing, it seems to atleast cause similar trauma for them.

never did i mention it i equivalent. I said it is traumatic, and it is as a apprent from the original "meme"