I didn’t know a lot about declawing, but I wouldn’t do it, either. I was told the story of an elderly woman who was given the option of declawing her cat or losing her rent-controlled apartment, because the cat wouldn’t stop scratching up the walls. She gave the cat to a shelter rather than have it declawed.
When I came along and adopted that cat I gave her plenty of scratching posts, and she allowed me to clip her nails regularly. I had her for the next 14 years, and she never even scratched [b]me[/b], never mind my belongings.
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@bijouxbroussard Exactly... My cat has her claws and rarely scratches us or the furniture... it's just pointless and cruel.
