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We gave our kitties numerous things for them to play with that were not furniture, however they liked furniture better. This resulted in the declawing.


I'd have gone with less breakable furnature, or making some effort on the encouraging proper behaviour front - most cats (even those older those no longer kittens) can be "trained" away from problem behaviour very quickly with tactical use of a water pistol. Many that have access to the outside world grow out of it naturally anyway.

Though having said that the cats I've lived around have been outdoor+indoor cats - if your's are always indoors (common in very urban areas, people who live in flats, or with pedigrees) then they don't have somewhere out of your way to run off nervous energy and sort out the claws naturally (say, on tree bark) which would make them more resistant to the above sort of behaviour management.

Declawing is strongly discouraged over this side of the pond, to the point where it is illegal in many countries (including the UK), except when deemed necessary for medical or health reasons such as certain deformities of the toe/claw that some are born with. The operation is seen as cruel when performed without medical reason, akin to having a child's fingers and thumbs amputated at the first knuckle because the kid uses it's nails to pick at the wallpaper. [my apologies to Imp-Chan, for getting a bit soap-boxy in her Happy Announcement thread]

One of our cats (who we were are sure was some sort cat/pitbull cross-breed) used to make a show of pulling off her old claw sheaths with her teeth and dropping them on the carpet or flicking her head and throwing them across the room. I think she was trying to prove something about her tough credentials.


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Is this a "post your cats" thread, because I thought I heard someone say "post your cats".


If we waste any more time on "posting our cats", we'll be bankrupt by the end of the month!


I see your joke, and raise you a "Oh no, it's time to lock this thread because we're posting about something not related to ES!".

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We gave our kitties numerous things for them to play with that were not furniture, however they liked furniture better. This resulted in the declawing.


I'd have gone with less breakable furnature, or making some effort on the encouraging proper behaviour front - most cats (even those older those no longer kittens) can be "trained" away from problem behaviour very quickly with tactical use of a water pistol. Many that have access to the outside world grow out of it naturally anyway.


Oh we tried, catnipping alternate scratching locations and squirting the cats when they misbehaved. We weren't worried about hampering their ability to fight, as they are strictly indoor cats- we don't want them getting lost, hurt or getting into fights with other cats or even coyotes.

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Between me and my parents we have three cats (four if you count the stray kitten we can't get out of their house), my parents owning a gray tabby named Gabriel ('Gabbie') and me owning two solid black cats named Kuro and Kanako respectively. There's also another five or so strays hanging around our houses that we can't get to go away.

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The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.


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When I first saw this thread, I interpreted it as news that Impy was pregnant... or had injected her parasitic larvae into Poe's skull. I nearly had a heartattack.

Of course ito could be argued that cars are parasitic larvae.

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When I first saw this thread, I interpreted it as news that Impy was pregnant... or had injected her parasitic larvae into Poe's skull. I nearly had a heartattack.

Of course ito could be argued that cars are parasitic larvae.


Thank god I wasn't the only person thinking that.

Also: If the cat tries to eat your toes, wear socks. Or maybe that's the problem. In that case, don't wear socks.


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The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.

That sounds awesome.


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The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.

That sounds awesome.


Yeah, kittens do that. Try not to wiggle your toes and it will leave them alone. Maybe.

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Saturnalia wrote:
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The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.

That sounds awesome.


Yeah, kittens do that. Try not to wiggle your toes and it will leave them alone. Maybe.


Or spray the kitten when the lil' bastard tries it.

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Michael Poe wrote:

The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.


It only hurts when they get their teeth in behind the toe-nails.

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BandMan2K wrote:
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The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.

That sounds awesome.


Yeah, kittens do that. Try not to wiggle your toes and it will leave them alone. Maybe.


Or spray the kitten when the lil' bastard tries it.


Why are you people trying to get the adorable little thing to stop?


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BloodHenge wrote:
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The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.

That sounds awesome.


Yeah, kittens do that. Try not to wiggle your toes and it will leave them alone. Maybe.


Or spray the kitten when the lil' bastard tries it.


Why are you people trying to get the adorable little thing to stop?


He draws with those toes. How else is an armless midget albino with with an afro supposed to draw?

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Saturnalia wrote:
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Saturnalia wrote:
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Michael Poe wrote:
The bloody cat tries to eat my toes while i am sleeping.

That sounds awesome.


Yeah, kittens do that. Try not to wiggle your toes and it will leave them alone. Maybe.


Or spray the kitten when the lil' bastard tries it.


Why are you people trying to get the adorable little thing to stop?


He draws with those toes. How else is an armless midget albino with with an afro supposed to draw?


With a pen in his teeth?

But if he's used to drawing with his toes, I suppose the cat must find someone else's toes to eat. I would generously offer mine, but I'd like to keep them attached to the rest of me, and I'm not sure it'd be worth the trouble or expense of keeping me as a house guest.


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You do know who the true master in the cat<->human relationship is, don't you? :-)

my foot

lol :lol:
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Not "Ellis"?


Fun fact: that's Kanako's new name now that it apparantly decided to get a gender change.

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