my sister says to de-claw

[lvpets2002]

I do not beleive & have no respect for de-clawing & for anyone that does this to an inocent baby.. How would you like your nails pulled off.. Oh sure your asleep & in no pain when the declawing is done.. But wait till the feeling starts to come back & how painfull it could be.. Also if this baby has to always live indoors.. What if you have to give this baby up to someone else & they cant keep in the house & this baby is dumped outside.. Cats are meant to have claws.. They can not defend themselves & they can not climb a tree outside & or indoors.. I cant count how many cats I see on Pet Finder de-clawed.. I have nine babies indoors & all have their claws.. All the furniture is in tack.. I keep the sharp points tipped every two weeks & have a lot of scratching post around & it works very well.. I am sorry I got on my soap box = but that is how I feel about the matter.. Please No De-Clawing..

[ashleycat]

she compared it to neutering

I've heard to many stories about how the cat changed soo much after getting declawed. How once they were nice and sweet, then after they were mean spirited.

Have you heard of the new thing called Tendonectomy ? I read that it's just the same basically. Done different, claws intact. Just the tendons are cut so they can't get their claws out.

I know someone who just got this done to their kitten. She said she was up walking around like nothing happend. I told her before she got it done about declawing. Then she told me about the Tendonectomy and I was skeptic about it.

My furniture is fine, it's my beds that they get. I have scratch posts and stuff, but Jake would rather use the bed and carpet lol. I don't mind him using the carpet, as long as its' not the same spot every time. Cus then the carpet would get messed up. If he likes this carpet I have on my floor, maybe I can find the same stuff and make several posts with it and have a couple around.