Ok folks, before this even thinks about turning nasty let me give my time honored statement. This forum is for personal opinions only no personal attacks. I would much rather a cat have a forever home than no home and its claws. I have 2 declawed and 16 that are not declawed. My 2 declaws are 15 and 11 years old, neither one bites, attacks, nor have they ever not used the litter box in their little kitty lives. They beat up the other cats with their clawless paws and the others sit there and take it. They have never been injured by another cat with claws. If "every" cat that you have ever met had problems then you need to meet more cats or better people with cats. I think that declawing is a very personal decision between the owner and the Vet. I think only after all other options have been either tried or ruled out should the surgery be done. Just as many clawed cats have behavior problems as the declawed ones but I bet their owners just put them outside and wave bye bye. So lets all play nice and no more "all" or "every". And as for the difference between a UTI and a behavior problem...that is real easy to diagnose. I am sure that a good Vet would never tell a pet parent that the cat had an infection when in fact it was a behavior problem.
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