2014-07-22, 02:06 AM
Tsundere Wrote:The major bad thing about cats with claws is that they have a tendency to claw on the wood, and destroy litter box bags if you use those. Also, they can claw you without meaning to quite often if you're being playful. I can understand both sides of wanting to and not wanting to declaw a cat though.
If anyone ever does decide to declaw a cat, I'd always suggest doing it when they're young. Putting them through that later in life is very cruel, because they've already gotten used to having their claws for so long.
[COLOR="#cc8899"]I figure if I'm getting clawed it's either an accident or I'm mishandling him somehow. He seems to put in effort to not use his claws if he's just playfully batting my hands, etc, so by extrapolation using claws = instinct/accident or something I'm doing is either scaring or hurting him. If I was that concerned about my furniture I wouldn't have adopted him. As for randomly sticking me or trying to knead my arms, etc, well, he's not doing it to hurt me and it's not like it hurts much. It's tolerable. He won't be declawed.
He is, I should mention, EXTREMELY clever. He's already figured out how to undo a twist-tie (He kept going into my fireplace to explore, so I tied the metal curtains shut with a twist-tie that he promptly undid before climbing back in. This time I've tied it with the knot on the INSIDE so he can't get it as easily. He's still close to figuring it out lol.
I've got some videos on my Facebook that I'll work on uploading to YT to post here.[/COLOR]