| Furious_Female |
11-14-2003 12:01 PM |
Quote:
Originally posted by LadyMischief
Cats are extremely intelligent animals.. Once they learn something they never forget, but the mistake people make is trying to train them like a dog. They are not dogs. They are cats. They think and learn differently. In my former home with 7 cats, I NEVER had problems with them scratching furniture, climbing or clawing things up. Then again I took the time to train them right the first time (even the ones I got as adults, cats can be trained at ANY point in their lives), it took me about two weeks, and I never had a problem again. The inhumanity in declawing cats is that you are physically causing them many more problems then you are fixing.
Still don't think it's inhumane? Read this article:
http://amby.com/cat_site/dc-wyntk.html
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Well like I said... I guess I am just a bad person. I did the scratching post thing, the water etc... They still scratched things and me when they are running around being wild.
There's a house a few miles down the road from me, that has 20 or 30 cats on the front lawn, the cats sit outside 24/7 in the rain, snow and heat with one bowl of food they all eat out of... and always thought I was doing the best for my cats, being I spent thousands of dollars on getting them their shots, spayed/neutered and declawed. My cats are well behaved when they are by themselves, but they act up when they are around each other (all brothers and sisters)... I guess I don't have time to monitor all of them every waking second, even though they take up a large part of my day. I always figured they could have it worse like the people that neglect their animals. I'd never intentionally harm my cats, but I don't want them destroying my things. |
