Why do these people have cats?

**BastetsMum** · 05-24-2003, 06:12 AM

Can I have a turn with that rolled up newspaper please?

Also pass me that sharp cleaver so I can cut her first knuckle off so she can't grow fingernails.

05-24-2003, 06:23 AM

What a s@%/@ !!! I would ask her to leave the house immediately

**moosmom** · 05-24-2003, 08:34 AM

I use "kitty jail" for discipline. It's actually my bathroom

It works like a charm and difuses a bad situation.

**ScantyNebula** · 05-24-2003, 10:36 AM

cat lover my ***!!!! ..... that is no way to treat a living creature

**PayItForward** · 05-24-2003, 10:46 AM

if the cat has behavioural problems and destroys everything for a reason or another, declawing is preferable to shelter.

It has been proven that more behavioural problems arise from declawing.

True the cat would not scratch the sofa but they often start bitting and develop pain related litter tray problems (As the litter hurts their feet) Some animal become with-drawn and wary of humans.

I personally believe, if the sofa is more important than the cat. Then the cat deserves a new loving home, if this is via a shelter, so be it.

PS. These comments do not apply to people who declawed cats, before they understood what this procedure involved.

I am angry at people who know what is involved and still want to declaw.

**moosmom** · 05-24-2003, 11:28 PM

PayItForward,

AMEN TO THAT!!! Cats CAN be trained to use a scratching post! It's just that SOME people are just too lazy so they take the easy, PAINFUL way out.

(this comment does also not apply to anyone having declawed their cats before they understood the procedure)

**krazyaboutkatz** · 05-24-2003, 11:41 PM

People like this woman make me so mad.

I sure hope that her cat at home isn't being abused. I would have told her the proper way to discipline a cat and that declawing only causes more behavioral problems. I probably would have also made her leave and I sure wouldn't want her to be around my cats any more either.

BTW what was your response?