Interesting that you bring this up now. A lady who had never had cats came to our adoption day yesterday. The conversation was going along very well until she said the evil words "when can they be declawed?" Basically she got jumped on by all 4 of us volunteers who were there. Well not really "jumped" on but we made it clear that it was up to the individual foster mom whether they'd allow their kittens to be declawed. We had great fun rebutting all of her reasons to declaw.

What me off is that she *knows* what declawing entails, and STILL wanted to do it!

Oh, well. End of rant. Sorry if I spoiled your MOther's Day.