soul2share
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ORIGINAL: Muttling Kitty has no claws. Not necessarily......KB would smack Shiloh all the time, he just chose NOT to use his claws. While it appeared that they were playing to kill, they didn't really hurt each other. Those two obviously live together, and are fast friends.....I'd bet anyone trying to hurt said kitteh would have to deal with the dog. Wanna bet on the outcome? And personally, I think declawing a cat is inhumane, no matter what method is employed to rip the claws off a cat's foot. I have always provided scratching stuff for my cats, and yes, there are times when they have used the furniture, but it's usually only KB when he's trying to make a point or get my attention. They love the cardboard scratchers that I've given them......they want no part of a scratching post, or carpet remnant. Scratching does more than ruin the furniture, it's an instinctive way that cats communicate. Annie had no claws, yet she still "scratched" on the furniture, carpet and her post. My dad used an old piece of firewood for Annie.....he stripped off the bark so she didn't get splinters, attached it to a small piece of plywood, and voila! My sister uses the same thing for her kittehs.....her clawed kittehs. I never did fully forgive mom for declawing Annie. She ended up getting an infection in one paw, which meant that NO ONE touched her feet after that. And she did find a way to get even.....she learned how to bite. I'm not talking about a little nip here and there, I'm talking about a grab on, straight to the bone, ripping bite. And at her heaviest, she went about 30 lbs.....she'd bite, then she'd go limp......that, combined with the reflexive action to yank your body part away, meant a very nasty bite. She nailed me in the meaty part of the hand one day.....I honestly thought I'd need stitches, I probably could have used them, but I closed up the rips with band-aids......it took almost a month to heal completely closed.
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I have to stop saying "How stupid can you be?"...people are starting to take it as a challenge! *Not a fuck was given.*
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