Thread: declaw or not declaw?

Originally Posted by inexcelsis

Just wanted to say that it's important to give an indoor cat alternatives to scratching the furniture. It feels good to scratch, and they like to mark their scent through scratching. I've read that it's good to have a scratching post near where the cat sleeps, since they like to have a stretch and a scratch upon awakening. We have a couple scratching posts in the house, and haven't had any problems, thankfully. In the first few months, whenever Ollie started to claw the furniture, I'd tell him "no", then go and run my nails along the post, and he'd switch. Good luck!

Ginger has a 7 foot cat tower with plenty of scratching places, she loves to sleep in the nest on top. She is not scratching now but she is a baby and loves to scratch and bite me in play, although she never bites the hubby! I just trimmed her nails in the front, they are so tiny! Thank you for the advice, can not have too many scratching posts.