Not to bring up this old debate (well, sort of) but I can say that no cat I've ever owned has CHEWED UP MY FAIRLY NEW CURTAINS while laying in her dog bed by the sliding glass door.
Well of course I have to back you up on this one...go cats! Although i have to admit that I have some chewed up ends of blinds...but then again, Braeya THINKS she's a dog, so that's probably how that happened.
I am sitting on a couch right now that we had when we had cats, and the entire bottom edge of the front is shredded, frayed threads from the cats using that part of the couch as a lie-on-their-backs monkey bar/scratching post. They'd start at one end and pull themselves by their claws to the other end. The rocking chair (which I had the junk haulers take away) was shredded even worse.
My little Abby never chewed (or clawed) anything. She just leaked on the carpet sometimes.
And dogs never try to climb up your bare legs, with their claws out, to get to the counter.
Chris, if they had to live with you they'd be chewing you up!
Skyepuppy, although I have the greatest respect for most of your opinions (about 99.9% of them), this is that .1% of the time that we disagree. And of course you must realize that your cats would not have destroyed your couch if they were declawed....
Oh and did I mention that she's also chewed my snow boot and a tennis shoe and today, she pooped in the basement. She's not on my favorite pet-of-the-day list.
Oh, but if I declawed my cats, all the animal rights people would have my head on a platter. And some of my friends would disown me for being only one step away from serial killing (I'm not kidding).
You haven't had that reaction to declawing your cats?
Skyepuppy - I was completely raked over the coals on my blog for declawing Braeya. I wouldn't change my decision though. Both she and Kaegan still have their back claws, and I still get wounds upon occasion when I'm used as a springboard.
I really don't understand the extreme visceral reaction some people have to the idea of declawing cats.
When a person says, "I'm going to get my cats declawed," they react as though the person said, "I'm planning on picking up where Dr. Mengele left off on medical experimentation on the Jews." Except, I think that if you came up with a better alternative to Zyklon gas for the extermination of the unwanted races, the cat people would treat you better than if you declawed your cats.
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Well of course I have to back you up on this one...go cats! Although i have to admit that I have some chewed up ends of blinds...but then again, Braeya THINKS she's a dog, so that's probably how that happened.
If I had to live with your cats, I'd be chewing the drapes too.
I am sitting on a couch right now that we had when we had cats, and the entire bottom edge of the front is shredded, frayed threads from the cats using that part of the couch as a lie-on-their-backs monkey bar/scratching post. They'd start at one end and pull themselves by their claws to the other end. The rocking chair (which I had the junk haulers take away) was shredded even worse.
My little Abby never chewed (or clawed) anything. She just leaked on the carpet sometimes.
And dogs never try to climb up your bare legs, with their claws out, to get to the counter.
No, dogs are WAY better than cats.
Bekah, you're my only friend.
Chris, if they had to live with you they'd be chewing you up!
Skyepuppy, although I have the greatest respect for most of your opinions (about 99.9% of them), this is that .1% of the time that we disagree. And of course you must realize that your cats would not have destroyed your couch if they were declawed....
Oh and did I mention that she's also chewed my snow boot and a tennis shoe and today, she pooped in the basement. She's not on my favorite pet-of-the-day list.
Oh, but if I declawed my cats, all the animal rights people would have my head on a platter. And some of my friends would disown me for being only one step away from serial killing (I'm not kidding).
You haven't had that reaction to declawing your cats?
Christina - we gotta stick together!!! :)
Skyepuppy - I was completely raked over the coals on my blog for declawing Braeya. I wouldn't change my decision though. Both she and Kaegan still have their back claws, and I still get wounds upon occasion when I'm used as a springboard.
Bekah,
I really don't understand the extreme visceral reaction some people have to the idea of declawing cats.
When a person says, "I'm going to get my cats declawed," they react as though the person said, "I'm planning on picking up where Dr. Mengele left off on medical experimentation on the Jews." Except, I think that if you came up with a better alternative to Zyklon gas for the extermination of the unwanted races, the cat people would treat you better than if you declawed your cats.
Just an observation...
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