We just got our kitten a few weeks ago.
My mom always declawed our cats growing up... so when we got boots, we were thinking about it... (he scratches us, A LOT)

I did research online about it and within reading 2 sentences about declawing and effects I became totally against it.

He's been a farm kitty until we got him (hes about 6 months). Its only been a few weeks, but we've actually trained him and he knows he can go to the couch we dont care about to scratch, or his scratching post. He stays away from our precious expensive couch

I have to say even if he was tearing up my furniture, theres no way, knowing what I do about declawing, that I could do it to him.