Cats are companions--even family members--that (who)
should be cherrished as such if one adopts them and assumes
responsibility for their care.

I didn't have enough cats to make a couch, so I bought one in fabric instead.

pick up a copy of the MLA handbook.

I love my house and my furniture, and I REALLY love my cats.  Its easy to
love both.  Shut the f.ck up and go somewhere else.

PRECISELY!

It probably is to them mate :(

In Matts's (XeNOs) post about his cat who unfortunately died, Whayface
replied with some comment about "bleeding heart anti-declawers".

Personally I find the people who don't allow their cats to venture
outside to be bleeding heart spineless namby-pambies.  They are afraid
that their cat will get run over by a car, and thus keep it confined
indoors to an artificial gloomy prison life.  It is wrong to keep a
cat confined indoors.  They should be allowed outside to enjoy nature
and the things normal cats like to do. I.E. get exercise, stalk, hunt,
socialise with other cats, laze in the sun, climb trees et cetera.  

Some cats do unfortunately get killed by cars, however the majority of
cats learn very quickly that roads are dangerous and will generally
avoid them especially at busy times when there is a lot of noise.  It
is better to have a short life and be free than to live a long life as
a prisoner.  Nature is sometimes cruel, but it is the same for
everyone, humans included.  Why confine your cat to a life indoors if
you yourself don't subscribe to the same belief and venture outside?
It is rather hypocritical if you ask me.

Let the cat be free to enjoy the outdoors and anything nature throws
its way, even if those are the laws of natural selection.  Keeping a
cat confined and wrapped up in cotton wool is un-natural and goes
against everything a cat needs to do.  Cats are not teddy bears, they
are predators and need to enjoy time outside.  People who keep their
cats locked inside are doing no more than keeping them in a small
claustrophobic zoo, as opposed to letting them be free to venture
outdoors if they wish.

Declawing is a completely self-centered, selfish, appalling,
despicable, abhorrent, disgusting act that is absolutely no different
to amputation.  It damages the cat physically, harms them
psychologically, and handicaps them permanently.  

Anyone who does this to their cat because they don't want their
precious furniture to get a couple of scratches, is an implacable
obnoxious sub-human and quite frankly not fit to keep a cat as a pet
in the first place, or any other animal for that matter.

The people who have de-clawed their cats will do and say whatever they
can to try and justify it.  They will go as far as saying that the
cats were abandoned and there was "absolutely nowhere else" that could
take them, so it was either a choice of death, or amputation and a
life confined indoors.  That excuse filled attempt at justification
for declawing doesn't wash with me.

The bleeding hearts, as well as the cold hearts, are the ones who
declaw (amputate) their cats and keep them wrapped up in cotton wool,
and confined indoors for life.

John