Mutilating your pets to suit your lifestyle...

Or you could try not getting a cat. Believe it of not, they understand that there's something wrong with them...

 

Then don't get a cat. They aren't ornaments or toys for your amusement.

 

Hmm, so you believe that being able to mutilate and modify an animal is a 'right' to be proud of? That's a (*)(*)(*)(*)-poor attitude.

 

Really? Cat's need to defend themselves, climb, groom, scratch themselves etc. They weren't put on this planet to beautify your home or to show-off to your friends.
Animal mutilation is cruel, inhumane and is nothing less than an exercise in selfishness and vanity-wiring a Dobermann's ears so they stand up and make the dog look 'tough'.

 

I have three cats...none are declawed, none destroy my furniture. I do trim the front claws on one cat...she "kneads" when she's happy (I suspect she doesn't do it conciously), the trimming helps a lot with that.

That cat is sleeping on my lap now, in fact.

 

All one needs to do is to train the cat not to claw the furniture. There is no need to get the cat declawed. Just be a good pet owner is all that is required.

 

^This pretty much.

If you agree to have a pet, you have the moral obligation to accept the responsibility of the bad with the good...not to mutilate the animal for a selfish reason that only benefits you at the animal's expense...how repulsive.