Originally posted by wolflady
I guess I will jump in here as the one person who has a cat with behavioral issues related to the declaw surgery......
Thank you for coming forward to state that these types of behaviors actually are a result (sometimes) of declawing. YES, it is the minority of cats that this happens to, but why take the chance???? What if you adopted the most lovable, well adjusted cat you have ever seen. The kind you'd been looking for all your life.....PERFECT !!! and then you declaw it and it begins to refuse the litter box (simply because the litter hurts its feet too much). Then what? You know that 9 out of 10 HONEST people would not want to live with a cat for 10 plus years with it peeing on the carpet constantly. That is why they end up in shelters. And besides the fact that they might get picked first, those unsuspecting people will come to find that their new pet was at the shelter for a reason. And while those new pet owners turn around to bring their new found "problem" pet back to the shelter (or worse, just dump it) other deserving cats (with their claws) have been put to sleep for lack of room. Do you see what I mean? Why risk it?