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"MaryL" wrote in message ...
"Cheryl" wrote in message ... (D. Stephen Heersink) wrote in : I've always declawed my cats because they are always indoors and if I don't, they will claw the furniture and me. Since I have expensive furniture and don't want scars on me, I've found the declawing a cat is the best way to accomplish our mutual goals. You appear to think forums such as this are only read by people in N America. That is not the case and everywhere else declawing is considered barbaric. Get a clue. Scars on you; what a wuss. Furniture is more important? Get a fish. ****head. -- Cheryl And, of course, many of us in N. America also consider declawing to be barbaric. The irony of D. Heersink's message about "expensive furniture" is that cats should be more important than furniture but the two actually are not mutually exclusive. I have very good furniture and two cats with claws (plus previous cats with claws), but no scratches. As someone else mentioned, the only scratches I get are on window sills (easily repaired). I do have scratching posts that get mangled, but that is their purpose! MaryL The last couch I bought for the livingroom had a metal frame... Problem solved. ;-) Sisal scratching posts are cheap to either make or buy, and the cats will PREFER to use them instead of the furniture, especially if you rub fresh catnip on it. I have a large organic catnip patch out back in the gardens. Nothing funnier than a pack of stoned kitties. g Please don't flame me for that, I only give them catnip every couple of weeks.... Carpet samples turned upside down are an even bigger favorite, as are the cardboard scratchers that can be purchased at petsmart. I'm considering stapling some of the carpet samples to boards. My cats favorite scratching posts tho' have been office room dividers! They are covered with a burlap type surface, and I picked up 3 of them for 5 bucks each from a local furniture recycler. The cats love to climb them and perch on top, and of coarse, scratch them up. They look a bit ratty after a bit but they are in the cat room so I don't care..... K. |
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enlightened us with... kaeli wrote: think it does - but I also think I think of "spanking" differently than you meant it. I think you're right, I call a swat on the butt a spank. I also don't believe in putting a child over my knee and hitting them repeatedly. I thought that might be a little difference in terminology. ------------------------------------------------- ~kaeli~ Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace ------------------------------------------------- |
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