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Karen Holbrook - 05 Jan 2004 20:07 GMT

Is your cat declawed? Is it a house cat only?

Karen Holbrook
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Sabrina's Mom - 05 Jan 2004 20:23 GMT

>Is your cat declawed? Is it a house cat only?

Front paw (yes, singular) yes.

And yes, a single cat house.

>Karen Holbrook
>http://community.webtv.net/karenholbrook/doc

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wumpygirl - 07 Jan 2004 03:37 GMT

> Is your cat declawed?

Not on your life!

> Is it a house cat only?

Not on your life!

Are you declawed and in house only?

Not on your life!

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Tina Laitinen - 07 Jan 2004 05:34 GMT

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> Not on your life!

One of our cats is declawed but we got her that way. We find that she uses
the scratching post anyway. We like those cardboard ones that come in the
plastic box. You put the kitty nip underneath the cardboard and it drives
em nuts. We have two of em in the house and they prefer to use those
instead of our furniture. Ours are in house only but only because we live
on the third floor in our apartment. They do however go out on the balconey
and they are leash trained. Our previous town had a by law that your cat
had to be on a leash. So we leash trained both of them and we put them in
our front yard and made sure that we kept a good eye on them.

Tina

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Gee - 08 Jan 2004 03:56 GMT

> Is your cat declawed? Is it a house cat only?

I never understood why do people keep cats if they care about their
furniture more? Anyone should have a very basic knowledge from the age of
like 5 that cats like to scratch and climb! Declawing is really like banning
a DMC level DJ that he is not allowed to scratch! Absolutely ridiculous and
downright cruel!

Seriously, if you love and above all respect cats, do not declaw them. If
your furniture is precious to you, get a snake or something that will not
potentially destroy it. Cats WILL scratch, it is their nature, and declawing
is really animal cruelty. Why? Because there is no good enough reason FOR
CATS THEMSELVES to be declawed. There is not a single benefit you can list
for A CAT TO BE DECLAWED. If you want a cat, get to know them first, learn
ABOUT them, READ about them , then decide if a cat is a pet for you. Or more
to the point if YOU are really GOOD ENOUGH to be owned by a cat!

Would you even consider defingering your kids just because they draw on your
wallpaper, or cutting their tongue off because they are screaming too much?
No. Ridiculous question isn;t it. And so is declawing. Think.

And yeah mine 4 are indoor. If their nails get too long, I cut them with pet
scissors a little. But I would never dream of being so mean and so cruel to
declaw them!

Gee

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Sabrina's Mom - 08 Jan 2004 12:35 GMT

> > Is your cat declawed? Is it a house cat only?
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> Gee

I won't have my cat declawed. But I will adopt cats who have been declawed
and abandoned by their owner. Sabrina's previous owner was a true catlover
(to the point of bequeathing a large sum of money to the rescue of cats at
my local vet's office), but Sabrina was declawed in the front. Her owner
passed away and had noone set to get Sabrina, so she went to the vet as a
"rescue kitty". and sat up for adoption and nobody was takign her because
she was a 4 yr old cat and very over weight (she was 22lbs when we got her),
not a kitten. We got her at a charity auction for the Big Brother's Big
Sister's group. The vet put her up for adoption there. (we didn't have
pets at the time, and really weren't looking, so its not like I knew that
this cat was at the vet's in the first place).

We love her dearly. She is declawed on her front 2 paws. And then in
September of last year she had 1 of her front legs amputated because of
cancer. So now she only has 3 legs, is a 14lb cat, is 8 yrs old, is a bit
unstable w/ balance because of the missing leg and her weight. She
obviously got startled by something to cause the scratch.

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