I'm a first time cat owner and my cat is upon 4 months old and it's getting to the age of getting spayed and perhaps declawed.
Since I don't know much about cats and everyone I asked so far is about 50/50 with their answers, so it could go either way.
In my own opinion, from what I heard, it sounds like a cruel and confusing thing to do to a cat and I'm actually leaning towards NOT getting it done.
Then I hear the stories of people saying that they didn't get their cat declawed and they regret it because it destroyed their furniture.
Like one friend of mine told me, I took on the responsibility of the cat and it's up to me to teach the cat not to do claw at stuff and I've been pretty consistant about taking out the spray bottle when she does claw at something, but what scares me is that she still goes back a short while later. I do have 3 scratching posts for her, but she never touched either of the them.
Please be gentle with me on this subject, like I say, this is my first cat, so I'm learning. I figured that there's a lot of cat owners on here, so what better place to ask
It is a 100% indoor cat.