Are You Intending To De-Claw Your Cat Because He Is Ruining Your Favourite Tables And Chairs

Is your favourite cat driving you to distraction by tearing up the legs of your favourite table or destroying the fabric of your favourite couch? Are you now starting to consider de-clawing your cat as a solution?

Cats just love to scratch at things, it’s quite natural and normal and instinctive. It helps them shed some of the excess dead nail material on their claws and it also helps them mark their territory in the house by leaving slight amounts of scent around. Of course your cat doesn’t know that you’re not intending to let any rival cats in any time soon.

If you plan to try and stop your cat from clawing the furniture then you should know that you’re backing a loser. You can scold him, you can punish him, you can throw him outside or smack his paws till your hands hurt and chances are good that it won’t do anything at all. He will still scratch the legs of your favorite table and drive you to distraction.

Cat owners who reach the stage of realization that they are unable to stop the cat scratching the furniture sometimes consider de-clawing their cat. This is a surgical procedure where the claws, usually on the front legs only, are removed with part of the bones. It is expensive, it is extremely painful for the cat who needs to walk around on injured feet for a period of time whilst they are healing, and it also poses various risks to the cat.

Some of the most important things that cats do require claws. Your cat can’t play in trees if he can’t climb them. They use their claws when stretching, running and jumping and even digging in their litterbox.

And of course if your cat is attacked by a dog then claws are his only source of defence. But he can’t defend himself with no claws.

The sad fact is that there are much cheaper, less painful and less stressful solutions to de-clawing a cat. The best of these is to spend some $20 or less buying a cat scratching post and spend some training him to use it.

A simple cat scratching tree is the ideal way to solve the problem using a much less expensive and less stressful method than cat surgery, though it does sometimes takes some effort to train him to use it properly.

There are many countries where cat de-clawing is illegal. It is expensive and unnecessary and painful for the cat and the need for it is removed simply by buying cat scratching posts and training your cat properly.