Reply #45: yet another hot-button all or nothing issue, eh? [View All]

[semillama]

My cats are declawed. My oldest I had to declaw or get rid of her, and as she is strictly indoors, she got declawed. My younger cat is much larger and more aggressive than the older, and kept inflicting big scratches on the older kitty, so he got declawed. Neither one seems that unhappy with the decision. They're used to it. In both cases, it was either get rid of the cat or declaw. Since I knew that the cats would be better off with me than in a shelter, they got declawed, and are healthy, happy and alive today.